Church clothes.
We don't have school clothes at our house (most learning takes place in PJ's or a costume around here) but we do have church clothes. Clothes you are supposed to take off when you get home. Clothes that Mommy shouldn't have to wash each week because you really only had them on for a few hours. Clothes that stay cute enough to pass down from one brother to the next.
Did I mention you take them OFF when you get home? Clearly I didn't say it to Maxwell last week. Here he is in all his WET cuteness in his church clothes. Out of the van, around the back of the house and right into the kiddie pool. Wet head to shoe covered toe. Now, maybe if I hadn't paused to take a picture, then he would have really understood that this is not what we do in church clothes. But like everything, I DID take a picture and followed it up with a stern, "Don't do that again." Sometimes I even ask them to repeat the act so I can get the picture and then try to employ the "Don't do it again." I can see the mixing of signals. I get that. But it isn't like I am trying to write a parenting book. (If I did it would so have a chapter on the reason you DO NOT let your child take the bottle to bed and a step by step guide to sanitizing a crib after your child has discovered how to take off his soiled diaper and smear it on everything he can touch from said crib)
So here is cute, wet Maxie. Ya think when I show him the scrapbook page on how cute I think he is at this moment it will also undermine the wrongness of it all? Yeah...probably. kelli OH YEAH, notice that there are just bangs on the right side of his head? We noticed that too. "I cutted it" It could have been worse..ref. pics of me at 4 1/2. 
