Children are not mini adults.

There is something so maddening about people who think of children as little big people, nothing more than mannequins to dress up and parade about.


Isn't there?


Do you hate it too?









HA HA!! How cute are they? Can you imagine what I was like with Sophie? I didn't dress her like a little woman though, she was pink and frilly ( but never that shiny frilly, not nylon or wedding cakey frills, broderie anglaise frills thankyou very much. ) She was smocking and white leather sandals.

These boys though, they choose what they will during the week and they are all particularly picky about it too. Sundays though, I win, they get dressed in MY choice of clothes and thankfully they really love wearing these suits. Always white shirts although Eli's suit did come with a fetching lilac one.
( !Thud! whooooops there goes H in a dead faint!!)
Elijah even has mini brogues, that I stroke and exclaim over at every available opportunity.
LOOK! Tiny cute boy in suit and BROGUES!! Awwwwww. awwwwwwwwwww!! Kiss him and squeeze his cheeks.



I am so thrilled that Isaac likes his suit, he takes the jacket off as soon as we go to church but he loves the fact that it has an inside pocket to hide pens in.



My vanity is a stroked every week when we walk into church and I hear those little gasps and awwwww's. I actually believe that being dressed this way encourages them to behave more reverently too, ( maybe because it is just too dratted hard to climb under seats with a 3 piece suit on!)
So, even though children are not mini adults and even though they are not little dolls to dress and parade about like poodles.....its really really great fun to do it sometimes!!