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Tux Envy
 Yesterday, Christopher's class went to the Zach Scott theatre to see a great little play called Holiday Heroes.
We were asked to dress our kids in appropriate "dress for the theatre" attire, so this is what Christopher was wearing.
When I picked him up after school, I asked him about the field trip and got asomewhat confusing description of one scene from the play. He was really enthusiastic about it, and couldn't stop laughing when he was describing it, so although I couldn't follow the storyline I sensed that he'd had a great time. (I'm perceptive like that.)
Then I asked him if his other friends were dressed as nicely as he was. Christopher said that he only remembered one kid's outfit, and that it looked WAY better than his because it had a tie.
I have to say that I was a bit surprised he'd noticed another kid's clothes and that he would make a comparison to his own. I had no idea that he cared about style.
I apologized for not giving him a tie. He then mentioned that Billy (not his real name) also had a coat thingy.
Huh. Some kid wore a suit to the field trip?
I was intrigued, so I started asking more questions despite knowing that right after school is the worst time to interrogate him. He quickly grew frustrated and said:
"I don't know what kind of tie it was! It was just a picture of a tie!"
My hysterical laughter at this point made him even madder, and his yelling "STOP LAUGHING" only made me laugh harder, which made him madder...
As I bet you can guess, I'm pretty sure Billy was wearing this.
Ok, I LOVE the fact that Billy wore a tuxedo t-shirt to the theatre. Seriously, I do. I think it's a little bit cute and funny. But mostly I love that Christopher coveted it. It set our little world back into balance to know that, rather than suddenly transforming into a stylista, our six year-old boy has a six year-old world view: a t-shirt beats a button-down any day of the week.
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do we really think that's what the kid wore??
can we hunt down his primary caregivers and befriend them?!
Carla
I really hope you guys buy him one of those t-shirts. So hilarious.
I want to be friends with billy's mom.
Frank says you're all on his list for these comments :)