Grandma Joyce, Dressmaker to the Stars

I offered Reid the choice of two outfits this morning, pointing out that one had a cat applique and the other had a mouse on it. She looked at them and said “Grandma”, a logical thing to say since Grandma Joyce had made both of them. When it was time to get her clothes on, she wanted to wear only the “dress”, which is actually a long-ish top with straps over the shoulder. Definitely not warm enough for 3 degrees! I started fighting her into the blouse but she said, “Reid do it” and then she asked her dad for help (music to my ears at that point in our day ;+) Never mind the big man fingers and little girl buttons. He got the blouse on and the top over it and I took her down to do her hair. She never asks for Ken to do her hair, which is a good things since his “doing” of her hair would involve scissors. We listened to the Treehouse music channel – if anyone ever sees Tom Chapin’s “Da babysitter”, please buy it – and I got pigtails in her hair, and many hugs and smiles as she tried to convince me that she needed neither pony tails nor barrettes. Then, I wrestled her into pants and socks and held her feet still for Ken to put on her shoes. Rowdy Reidie Reynolds, wrestler extraordinaire, is good at trying to break out of the Mama Bodylock but she is fighting out of her weight class.

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