Dressed for the Occasion

This week Merrick developed a funny little quirk. It all started on Monday when I was getting ready for preschool and Jeremy was getting Merrick dressed. When he emerged from his room he was dressed in his soccer jersey and soccer shorts. He legitimately looked like he was about to walk on to a soccer field.

While he did look cute, I was not so sure that I wanted him to wear that to preschool. I asked Jeremy if he could dress him in something else and he said he tried, but Merrick was insistent. He told me I was welcome to try and the only thing I could think of to tell Merrick was that his cousins would be playing soccer that weekend and that maybe he would like to save that special soccer outfit for the occasion.

Well, he decided right away that he wanted to change and the idea must have stuck. Each day he asked if the soccer games were that day and when he was told no, he decided he did not want to wear the soccer clothes. Unfortunately, for once in a blue moon, none of the cousins had soccer games this weekend, so the soccer clothes still sit, waiting for the right occasion.

Today I tried to get him to wear the soccer clothes, but he told me that was not right because the cousins did not have a soccer game today. Plus, he had his own agenda today. From pretty much the moment he got up today he was talking about baseball. He found two bats and a ball and started to work on daddy to take him outside. Jeremy said he would, but that Merrick needed to get dressed first.

And so we began the search for a baseball outfit. We had his "power hitter" shirt out and he was happy about that, but he was not so sure about the shorts I had picked out. It took Jeremy convincing him that they were baseball shorts before he would agree.

Eventually, with the baseball outfit on, the boys headed outside. Just don't tell Merrick that his daddy was actually wearing a soccer shirt and basketball shorts.