"Clothes haaaaa" is the best way I know how to phonetically spell a new phenonmenon in our house. The word "haaaa" is Abby's word for "off." And there's not way to phonetically spell "haaaa" that does justice to the way Abby says it. But she says it a lot these days.
This morning, I went into her room to find her completely naked. She got her blanket sleeper off as well as her diaper. Thank goodness it wasn't a poopy diaper, but I have that those unfortunate situations this week. Yuck.
Anyway . . .Abby likes to take all her clothes off several times a day. I think it's a challenge for her and she likes to see if she can get out of every outfit that I think is too tricky for her. For example, after the first few times she did this, I started putting a Onesie on her, thinking that she couldn't get that off, therefore, she couldn't get to her diaper.
Wrong.
She got her arms out of the Onesie, pulled the Onesie down to her tummy and proceeded to undo her diaper by reaching in the stretched out neck that was now around her stomach. I thought that was a surefire way to keep her from getting everything off, but I now realize that I have nothing. No defenses against our 21 month old who does not want to keep her clothes on.
So now every time I drop her off at the nursery at church or leave her with friends not only do I have to warn them that she will probably climb on anything she can find, but that she will probably strip as well--and not just the clothes--the diaper too.
On one hand, this is hilarious to me. She is just so amusing and really is a riot most of the day. However . . . when I am trying to get everyone out the door for church or preschool or something important that I am stressing out about, the last thing I want to see is a naked baby running around with her clothes in a pile.
Jenna never did this. In fact, I was worried about her dressing skills when I heard my friends tell me that their kids were always dressing and undressing themselves. Not to fear though, Jenna is an expert dresser . . . she has taken to picking out her own outfits. Needless to say, I only let her wear the yellow tank top over the blue long sleeve shirt with bright pink tights with hearts all over them and her denim skirt when we aren't going anywhere important. Yes, I get stares, but you know . . . she is very proud of herself and learning some independence.
As you can see, getting dressed and staying dressed are issues in our house right now. And while it is a minor inconvenience at times, this is the stuff of life and parenthood that we will always remember.
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