The pajama experiment

As noted in the last post, Emily's latest craze is experimenting with all the clothes in her closet.  This is probably a direct result of the disappearance of the Christmas dresses.  Emily changes her outfit at least 3 times a day--sometimes 5 or 6.  I think the selection depends mostly on what she is able to pull off the hangers.  I'll often go upstairs and find her closet floor littered with clothes.   Those that remain on the hangers are hanging cock-eyed because she tried to pull them off from the bottom and they got caught.  Anyway, this experimentation continues after bed time.  She gets put to bed with real, matching pajamas, but those are apparently too boring.  Here is how she fell asleep the last two nights...

This was a hooded flower dress with brown pants and a pink & navy Adidas hooded sweatshirt. It should also be noted that we usually have her sort of pick up her room before going to bed.  During the day she had piled up her bed completely full of stuff.  So we just sent her to her room and waited to see what she would do since she couldn't even climb in her bed.  Most of the stuff eventually got moved off.  There was still a basket of Easter eggs and several books at the foot of the bed.  We often hear crashes after she falls asleep at night and just figure it's stuff falling off her bed.

This outfit consisted of a blue sleeveless cotton dress from Old Navy that she had previously refused to put on.  The tags are still attached.  She also has navy slick pants and her obvious favorite shirt--the Adidas hooded sweatshirt.  George is sporting a very frilly (the picture doesn't do it justice) pink gingham dress from my childhood and the requisite pink headband. 

On laundry days it's hard to decide what to wash and what to hang back up as I try to remember how long she wore each article of clothing and whether or not it got spilled on or she had an accident in it.  She is a big reason why I had to do 8 loads of laundry today!