Skinny Pants

Usually I use this blog to give you all updates about how the kids are doing with the occasional news about the rest of us.  Here is the traditional portion of the update:  Katrine’s mini solo for the competition in two weeks is looking pretty good…if she could just figure out what to do with her hands on her one foot spin it would be looking great.  Elspeth has 51 words and is now able to walk down the stairs unaided.  Glenn still enjoys football and is going to see Penn and Teller tomorrow.  I am already counting down the days until I can put my Christmas decorations up.  Okay, now that is done and I won’t feel guilty about the rest of the post.

Help!  Elspeth is doing great growing, gaining weight and there in lies the problem.  She has grown enough that the size 12 to 18 month pants are too short.  Let her wear 18 to 24 month ones then.  What’s the problem?  She isn’t fat enough.  As you can see in the photos, our wee one has put on weight since we killed off the parasite.  She might even be in the 2.8th percentile now.  I mean, that is up from like the 0.5th percentile so we are happy.  At the same time, she is in the 2.8th percentile meaning that she is a stick.  A cute, huggable stick who now has a bit of pudge on her frame but for the purpose of buying clothes – a stick.

This morning: nope, too wide.  Nope, too wide.  Nope, too wide.  Hey! A friend of mine suggested using a diaper pin the take in the material.  Let’s give it a try.  So taking a pair of leggings in goes the pin until the equivalent of one whole leg has been gathered at the back…oh well, on they go and off we went to the mall.  Now I should explain that there are alot of dresses hanging in little miss’ closet and she is still super cranky in a dress (unless being bribed with presents and candy ala birthday time).  They get in her way on ride on toys. Let in the wind in the stroller.  They mean she has to wear her super cute fleece suit in the morning.  None of these are big selling points for dresses and I am not feeling up to re-altering all of the pants that were originally altered for Katrine so off we went shopping.

One store had toddler pants with adjustable waists.  The ones available for this season were selling for $45.00 a pair.  Yep, that is more than most of my pants cost and these are pants that will be grown out of quickly.  That goodness I managed to find two pairs on the clearance rake at $15.oo each.  They may not be this season’s style but she’s two.  Seriously though, Elspeth is going to need to start liking dresses or I am going to have to do a lot more shopping (ugh).  Maybe we can just fatten her up on all of the Halloween candy so that her clothes fit.  Sigh.