Tuesday was the annual pancake breakfast at William's preschool. All the kids (1 yr - 4 yrs) went to school in their jammies and feasted on pancakes for lunch. Knowing that my child won't even pick up a pancake much less TRY one (weird, right?), I packed some back up snacks for the tike and sent him on his way.
I didn't want to send him in his jams from the night before, so I changed his clothes from the pjs he slept in to a fresh, clean pair. When I pulled them out of the drawer, William grinned from ear to ear. "WOW, MAMA! BLUE WHEELS! YEAH!" and then he grabbed them up and hollered, "ON ON!" Bless his heart, William LOVES anything with wheels. I mean, LOVES them to the point of obsession. He'll cry in desperation every morning when I tell him it's time to get dressed because he wants to keep on his "wheels jams" for as long as possible. During the day, he'll see his jams on the floor of his room or in the hamper and he'll carry them around the house talking about all the different modes of transport he sees on the pattern. He also loves to play the matching game. So, he'll look at his jams and find 2 helicopters or 2 dump trucks and squeal with delight, "A MASH!!!" (a match). Every night when he gets out of the tub, he goes to his drawer and "wheels mama, wheels." This is the cue to me to find a pair of his beloved jammies for the night.
So, as you can tell, the "wear your pjs to school" concept was a hit in our house. Thank goodness the favorite pair of wheels jams were clean and ready to roll!
2 comments:
that is so funny! I was just talking to Dylan the other day about how he wanted to wear his jams ALL day when he was younger (he loves to hear stories about "when he was a baby"). Anyway, he literally would wear his jams all day! one day he woke up and insisted that he get dressed. Now he dressed the second he gets up....but still wears jams for nap. Now you just have to go on the hunt for cool shirts with vehicles. We have found ones with a snowplow, a digger, a bulldozer, every kind of fire truck and all jams have some type of vehicle too...cement trucks, dump trucks, etc etc. Must just be innate in boys!
Poor William might go hungry in the Greer house...we have pancakes A LOT! Did I mention we eat pancakes often?! Sometimes we'll have them for breakfast and for dinner. Daddy made up a fun song called "Drizzle, drizzle, drizzle" that he is now forced to sing everytime he puts syrup on pancakes or waffles!
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