It was time once again for back to school shopping and this year Strawberry Blonded insisted on picking out her own outfit for the first day of school. I would throw out suggestions in the store and she would run off in a different direction. I am so tired of buying her clothes she does not like and battling it out in the morning just getting her dressed. With the arrival of Sam, I don’t have the energy to have a negotiation first thing in the morning on what she is going to wear out of the house, so I am taking a different approach and letting a this three year old guide her own wardrobe picks.
After a few failed attempts we landed at J.Crew for her first day back to school selections. Within five minutes, she had thrown off her shoes and had fallen madly in love with the Girls Classic Ballet Flats. She had to have pink of course and as much as I tried to convince her that gold was more practical, she insisted on the pink. Funny enough, she loved them so much she actually slept with them in bed the first night we brought them home. Much like Cinderella and her glass slipper these pink ballet flats make her feel like a princess.
The shoes were a lock, so we had to find an outfit that worked with the shoes and as I threw out several dresses, she rejected all of them. On her own she stumbled across the Dachshund Girls Everyday Leggings. She thought they were so funny and told me that they ‘match’ her ‘sparkle shoes’. The ‘sparkle’ on the shoes was not quite enough and she needed to add a bit more shine to top off the outfit and so the Crew Cuts, Girls Color Block Heart Tee was a match for her back to school ensemble.
Taking photos of Strawberry these days is another challenging, so instead of trying to take the perfect photo before school I decided it would be fun to head out after school for her first photography lesson. I became her muse and we battled it out to get the perfect picture. We ended up having a total blast and as you can see bellow she got the hang of it pretty quickly.
