Fashion

At some point, Hannah unfortunately told Naomi that pants under dresses don’t look nice.  What this means for me is that Naomi still wants to wear dresses every day, she doesn’t have enough tights for her to wear tights every day, and so on mornings when there are no clean tights, we have the lament of the Naomi:

N:  I want to wear a dress, but I don’t WANT to wear pants!  Pants are UGLY under dresses. 

Then follows the weeping. 

Some of you may have guessed that this isn’t my favorite fashion-conscious development.  There are more tights in Naomi’s future, I think.

In the meantime, I have found a way around the problem.  This morning, I told the girls I was going to make scones for breakfast.  I told them they could help, but they’d have to be dressed and have their beds made first.  I didn’t really think about it at the time, but Naomi had worn her last pair of clean tights yesterday.  It could have been a bad scene. 

However, the promise of scones and helping make them was enough to outweigh the desire to make a scene about clothes.  Naomi returned downstairs a few minutes later in a cute outfit that included pants and a shirt.  And socks.  And clean undies. 

I hadn’t thought of the breakfast bribe approach before, but now that I realize what a powerful weapon it can be, I may just put it to use now and then.

Lesson learned:  scones trump dresses.