Growth Spurt

While Piano Girl was here & PDaddy and Jack were swimming at the Life Center this afternoon, I decided to do a partial closet cleaning event getting out jeans and sorting through the long-sleeved shirts to see what is on hold for cold weather and what is just too small. Oh how I dread this time of year. I really try to stay on top of the closet situation, and it's a full-time job let me tell you. From weekly laundry to having to weed out things that we have grown out of, to sorting through things that are out of season (and around here we just have one big season,) it's something that I have to stay on top of constantly. I have been putting off The Great Fall Closet Swap where I put up the shorts and short-sleeved shirts away because I know we have at least of month of semi-warm weather; however, for the last week and a half, we have had morning temps in the low 50's which means that my cold-blooded children are already asking for jeans each day to wear with their short-sleeved shirts. I went through my GINORMOUS, plastic clothes bin that holds the boys clothes that are out of season, and Jack did not have one stitch of clothing inside of it that he can wear. Usually there is something, at least, that he can wear for the first few weeks of the new season that is left over from last season. Nope. Not one thing. We tried on and bought a few 12's this weekend, and I think that he will be in 14's (yes, size FOURTEEN) jeans by Christmas. He comes up to my shoulders now. Not only do the jeans not work, all of his size 10 long-sleeved shirts from last season hit him between the elbow and wrist....and not one jacket, sweatshirt, coat, etc. Nice.
Along the same lines, I had to get Sophy several fall, church dresses because her dresses from last year were actually purchased the year before that (I try to buy dresses with a 2 year life to them, since we only wear them to church and a dress a little long is okay) and were looking a little like baby girl dresses. Not that they were too small, mind you. The girl hasn't grown in over a year. She is still in the same size shoe that she started kindergarten in, and I do not think she has grown in height in many, many, many months. Still, her church clothes sort of had a baby look to them, even though they still fit. So we bought some dresses for church that were a bit more fitting in age, and we stocked up on panty hose. The pair that she wore last Sunday were thread bare and had a toe hole. Ha.
Not to be forgotten, Sam is in dire need of shirts. Remember one of the points made during his parent/teacher conference last week about the illegal swing jumping? Feel free to scroll down if you need memory refreshing. While we were at the park yesterday, he asked me if he could show me how awesome he looks while jumping out of his swings. (I would like to note that the outfit in the pic is a Sam Original. The high water jeans. The too tight tucked in shirt. The belt AND buckle. He was in wardrobe heaven.) Because I am on the low end of the learning curve, I agreed to let him demonstrate his awesomeness. In my defense, I truly thought that the chains on the swing at his school were to blame. Maybe they were some evil style designed specifically to yank sleeves out of shirts (seriously, 2 of the 4 ruined over the last 2 weeks had the sleeves REMOVED by the illegal jump.) Anyway, look what I caught on camera. PDaddy was not happy with me, to say the very least! He was like, "You encouraged him to do what we told him specifically not to do?" Well, yeah. When you put it that way, it sounds so much worse than it actually was. Er. Ahem.