just gotta get this off my chest....
I dropped off some groceries to my friend yesterday as her DH is out of town and she and all 3 of her littles are sick. These are very close friends, have been for years. Our youngest and their oldest are besties and have been since before they could walk! Their oldest is a little boy, we'll call him Jake (5yo.) My youngest, E (4yo), and jake get along like peas and carrots even though she's a girl. She's a tomboy, but I don't even like labeling her that way. She likes what she likes and I don't really care. As her bff, jake, has gotten older, though, he has taken notice of how she doesn't "fit in."
On to the bitch...
Yesterday when I dropped the stuff off, my friend apologized that her 3 year old was pantsless. I laughed and joked about how my E is also allergic to clothes when we are home, so not to worry about it. Then Jake chimed in with this gem, "E only likes to wear hockey shirts. She needs to wear things like princess dresses." I was like, "yes, she does love hockey!" and then he goes "She's not supposed to. She likes sports, but she should like princesses. You need to tell her." My friend stepped in there and said "she can like what she wants..." blah blah blah.
I get that he's 5. No ill will towards the kid. BUT, this is what's coming for us, isn't it? She starts pre-K in august and she's picked out a blue dino backpack. I was so glad E wasn't there yesterday to hear her friend say that, but this is going to be a thing I guess going forward and I'm just so annoyed. It started way back when she was 2 and chose her halloween costume (woody from toy story) and literally every person we trick or treated to asked her why she hadn't chosen to be jessie (you know, the girl!) *sigh*
I feel better now. thanks.
Megs
DD1 (13-ish)
DS (11-ish)
DD2 (5-ish)