Blue Jeans

The cooler weather has finally come and with that warmer clothes are required. Long-sleeved shirts, blue jeans and hoodies all become a part of the clothes calendar.

Thankfully, we had gone through the blue jeans and long-sleeved shirts a few weeks back. During that try on time, we discovered four pairs of jeans, four pairs of athletic pants and one pair of cargo pants no longer fit. That left Christopher with two pairs of jeans and a pair of khaki pants.

So this morning, it was pulling out a pair of jeans to combat the 46 degrees temperature. He wore a short-sleeved shirt, but pulled on the hoodie.

And, because we live in South Texas and the weather changes faster than well, it just changes really fast, this afternoon, he lugged home the hoodie in his back pack. If he had worn a long-sleeved shirt, that too would have been in the back pack.

The two pair of jeans and the shirts that still fit all pass the "look" test with Christopher right now. We'll see if one pair of jeans is too faded or too dark or too baggy or whatever, but for now we'll be rotating two pair of jeans. I'll wait for the "look" fall out to determine what type of jeans will replace the four pair we gave away.

I know we the parents make the final decision because the money paying for the jeans belongs to the parents, but I prefer to avoid early morning battles if it simply means buying a pair of jeans he likes. Oh, they have to be from either JCPenney or the Gap, maybe Old Navy. Not quite ready to buy the jeans he likes from Abercrombie.