My kids have never really had the problem of putting holes in the knees of their pants. Until this winter. For whatever reason, we've had an epidemic of holes-in-knees lately, so today I decided to mend a bunch of them. I even went one step further and decided to put some cute patches on some of them. (Because patches are cool, right? I remember I had a Strawberry Shortcake one when I was little that I absolutely adored.)
So I went to JoAnne's this morning with dreams of Spiderman, Mario, and other manly patches to buy for the boys.
No dice.
There were around 28 different flowers, 82 butterflies, half a dozen hearts, and lots of other pink, glittery, girly patches. The boys were limited to sports balls and $5 trucks. (Note: I refuse to spend more than $2 on a patch.) Josh tried to convince me that Spencer would like a rather large, purple, sequin-enhanced butterfly, but I declined. He also tried to get me to buy a gold anchor outlined in gold sequins, resulting in a resounding no and having the song "YMCA" stuck in my head for the rest of the morning. In the end I bought a basketball, football, and a couple of baseballs. Josh was truly dissapointed.
Fast-forward to earlier this afternoon. (This is a true conversation, word for word.)
Me: Spencer! Look at the cool patches I got for your pants!
Spencer: Cool.
Me: Yeah, they didn't have any Spiderman or Marios or anything. But balls are cool, right?
Spencer: Yep.
Me (and for the life of me, I can't figure out why I said this): Yeah, they had a TON of girly hearts and flowers and butterflies. But you're a boy, and you wouldn't like any of those, right?
Spencer: Right. No - wait a minute. I LOVE hearts and butterflies!
Joshie: SEE?!?!
Snips and snails and puppy dog tails* my foot.
2 comments:
That is so funny. I saw the title of your post and I thought "oh, no, did they did a dog?" I'm glad to see it was a post about holes in the knees instead.
That is hilarious! I laughed out loud. SEE?! He was right all along :)
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