Last week, H had a potty accident at school (to date just peeing as he's reserved pooping in his pants to being at home with me just before bath time...yay, mommy). The teacher mentioned he didn't have any extra underwear. I noted that's why I brought in the diapers. They pretty much said they won't put one on him anymore since he goes potty almost every 20 minutes. Ah, I could see where that might be a problem with 10 other toddlers who are same age as or younger.
So, off to the store we trotted on Saturday. We had to do some errands and a bit of other shopping (you know the small stuff like pick out a bathtub - did you know that if you order a tub that is 6" longer than standard you will have to pay 50% more - that's a lot of money for not so much more fiberglass). So, we hemmed and hawed about going to WalM or the "red" store (Tar*get). We were at the blue home store which is next to the WalM but it's generally very busy any day of the week except Sunday mornings (good to know when you live in the bible belt). We opted for ease and headed to WM. We were in search of a toilet seat, toddler toothpaste (our first tube lasted about 6 months - our second about 6 weeks - that's what happens when the user just sucks it out of the tube), and more underwear.
Is is the desire to entice your toddler to WANT to wear the underwear or the desire to make your toddler happy (and thereby suffer less tantrums, screams, whines, tempers, etc.) which drives parents to do seemingly silly things such as spend ten minutes deciding on which underwear to purchase?Ultimately we felt a little foolish standing there trying to decide if we should get the multi pack (as in more than one "character") or just go with the standby Cars or should we go with the current fascination of Toy Story? The multi pack has Monsters Inc. and Robinsons as well as Cars and Toy Story but we haven't watched the first two yet so they would have no impact. I asked for the weigh in from Daddy who just said buy one of each and he can pick which to me seems a bit overboard. I am nothing if not frugal/looking for the largest value for my dollar. Seven pairs of toddler underwear for $12 or 3 for +$5. But do we really NEED 14 pairs of new underwear?
Okay, so we opted for the 14 but in keeping with my character, I saved half until he outgrows his current 2T so we can have some "new" ones to bring out.
This morning, I was pulling the clothes out of the dryer when H noticed the new underwear.
"Hey, what's that? What's that, Mommy?"
"New underwear, honey."
"Hey, that Buzz, Mommy. Mommy, that Buzz!"
"That Woody! That Rek! Mommy, that Rek!"
(Hmmmm, no real excitement over Lighting and Mater...)
We managed to actually get all of the clothes out before he wanted to take all of the underwear into his room and begin wearing them. First, he wanted to wear Buzz, then Woody, then Rex, then he really started to consider Lightning McQueen. He put on one pair and tried to add a second before I nixed that idea. The daycare can thank me later for that one. Ultimately, I said he had to choose and we settled on Woody for the day. As he was admiring all the choices he stated "These pity tool, Mommy."
"Yes, honey, they are pretty cool. I'm glad you like them."
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