Thursday, May 17, 2007

Boxer Briefs

My daughter quietly changed her clothes yesterday afternoon
without my knowledge. She found my
son’s school bag and, before I knew it, she showed
up at my side, naked except for a diaper and a pair of 3T boxer briefs. It was quite a site. Here was my beautiful little girl with her
giant pink bow, clad in a pair of boxer briefs with her diaper sticking out the
top. She looked like the toddler version
of Marky Mark.





Boxer_briefs
I’m pretty sure I know the origin of this wardrobe
change. She was staying with a friend
yesterday morning for an hour or two while I went to the doctor. Said friend’s son loves to play dress-up and
the poor kid doesn’t have much to choose from in his sister’s dress-up stash so
he tends to gravitate towards the blue dress. His Mama is less than thrilled about his penchant towards the Cinderella
ball gown but he does his best with what he’s got. He picked the manliest dress of the bunch! My daughter watched this scene intently and
was apparently taking mental notes. She
decided to follow the little guy’s lead and put on her brother’s clothes. After strutting around in the boxer briefs
for a few minutes (and some great photo ops), she decided she wanted to wear
everything in my son’s bag. She spent
the rest of the evening clad in cargo shorts and a blue T-shirt. My son didn’t know what to think.





I thought the whole episode was pretty funny but I have
taken action to avoid a similar scene in the future. I moved all of my son’s underwear to his top drawer where my daughter
cannot reach it. I’ve also made my
daughter’s new secondhand (thanks Jacquelyn!) Cinderella dress readily
available to her and have plans to purchase several more dresses for her to
play dress-up with. I’m just not ready
for gender confusion issues yet. Let’s
save that stuff for the teen years when I’m so heavily doped up on anti-anxiety
meds that it doesn’t bother me that my son wears all black and won’t make eye
contact and my daughter's wardrobe is not what I had in mind. 





5 comments:

  1. Just when I start to think it's never going to get better or funnier, you slip me a ringer, I hope you got pictures, this sounds better than the "American Idol" contestant you described to us.

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  2. The artist formerly known as Marky Mark, would like to be called Mark Walburg. His mother must have been so happy when he stopped going by Marky Mark, but not so happy with the ending scene in Bogie Nights.

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  3. The artist formerly known as Marky Mark, would like to be called Mark Walburg. His mother must have been so happy when he stopped going by Marky Mark, but not so happy with the ending scene in Bogie Nights.

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  4. Papa Dale-
    I did get a picture and it's a classic. I'll have to send it to you.

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  5. Uncle Carni-
    He wasn't known as Mark Wahlberg when his trademark was his boxer briefs. He'll always be Marky Mark to me!

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