This week Huff received a new dress from her clever Aunty C.
At first, she wasn’t sure about the dress, but she grew to really like it.
Huff has an interesting relationship with clothes: often she doesn’t care about them at all, and will just wear whatever she’s asked, but on occasion, she has a strong opinion one way or the other. We’ve tried to give her a framework for understanding “beauty” that it’s about your actions: the way you treat other people, rather than how you look. The language we use in how she presents herself is more around looking “neat” – being appropriately dressed for the occasion. Sometimes this has worked well, and other times it leads to some arguments. For whatever reason, she doesn’t like being called a “princess”, and when we tried to figure out what she was unhappy about with the dress, it seemed to be that people would say they liked the dress. Once we told her that she could say “My clever Aunty C made this for me”, she was much happier about the situation, so it seemed to be more about having a way to navigate the social situation than anything to do with the dress itself.
Huff (and Puff) also had some time with their cousin. There’s some forced perspective in this photo – Huff is still taller.
With school term starting up this week, we had a new occurrence – Huff had her first day of preschool while Puff had a pupil free day, so he had the chance to spend a day with Mum. They had a great time, drinking hot chocolate together and Puff learning how to play marbles (a game he has quickly decided to teach his sister).
Puff is getting so tall now. We have been handing down some clothes from Puff to Huff, and it’s very odd to see her wearing something that we have clear memories of him wearing – Dad for one hasn’t come to terms with Puff’s increased size.
See you next week!