You know, I can never keep up with laundry around here. No matter how hard I try there is always so much to be done. As I was putting Katelynn to bed tonight, I realized she was on her 4th outfit of the day- no wonder I have so much laundry!! It starts because Katelynn wakes up every morning and goes straight to her closet to get herself "dressed" before coming into our room to "wake" me up. I always know she is getting up, but I also think it's cute and am trying to promote her newfound independence, even if it is a bit more work for mommy in the end, so I just wait patiently for her to come into our room. She thinks it's so fun to say "Goood Morning, Mommy. Let's go downstairs."
Whatever she has dressed herself in for the day typically isn't what I can really let her stay in. It can be mismatched or completely off for the weather and sometimes it's a bit of a mix between PJ's and clothes. I always let her have her breakfast in it and sometimes play in that outfit before we get ready for the day. Today we went to playgroup and she got herself soaked playing at the water table so we had to get dressed for the third time. Finally, I attempted to have her take a nap today (of course unsuccessful) so while she was in her room and supposed to be napping, she was playing dress-up and picking out yet another outfit to wear today, which is what I finally took off of her to go to sleep tonight. I keep thinking I am going to get a childproof knob for her closet to keep her out of it, but then I never do. What fun it must be to be a kid!
I feel your pain...Olivia does the same thing when she is supposed to be napping. Usually she wakes up with a few layers of clothes on after her naps - an a fun assortment of skirts, tutus, pants, etc. And Ryan loves socks and if clean or dirty laundry is at his reach he finds the socks and drops them all around the house.
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