I dressed myself

There are some days I wish I could hang a big sign on my children's backs that say "I picked out my own clothes."
I suppose this sign might be slightly redundant as most people who stop and think about it probably can tell by the outfit. For instance...Doug has this thing about plaid shorts. There is a pair that he REALLY likes. SO therefore the plaid shorts go with his Thomas shirt if he picks out his clothes.
Andy has a liking for red socks. In fact yesterday was the second day for the same pair of red socks. He had them on his feet before I could make any correction and I just said "ok, at least he probably only wore them for a few hours at preschool the previous day."
Both kids like socks with fun pictures. So therefore it doesn't matter what the rest of the attire is but we must wear socks with pictures. Due to gifts we have been given we also have quite the selection of socks with pictures. Our list includes socks with: trains, construction equipment, abc's, bears, airplanes, moose, ufos, and more. Today Doug picked out some "comfy" shorts that were light blue with a blue strip down the side. He had one a solid blue shirt so that wasn't too weird, but then he really wanted the airplane socks. I had put them in the laundry (along with the red socks in an effort not to let Andy wear them for yet a third day). So therefore Doug ended up with UFO socks.
However, probably the strangest outfit that we had today...which probably even topped the comments we got from wearing pjs around campus, was Andy. Andy very proudly told everyone that he picked out his own clothes. He had on red socks (with blue and yellow diamonds), slightly too short blue stripe engineer overalls (probably time to pull those out of the clothes rotation), a tie-dyed shirt, a round hat (worn side-ways for most of the day), and pink polka-dot sunglasses (also worn most of the day). We were quite the sight and got lots and lots of comments and smiles.