MoJo
09-21-2011, 07:53 AM
My 15 month old DD is 75th percentile for height. . . and 8th for weight. For the summer, we just let her wear pants that were too short or no pants at all.
But now she's in daycare, and it's getting cool. I have been putting her in overalls. . . except yesterday she managed to get a button off, and now they don't want me sending her in anything with buttons.
She doesn't have any overalls without buttons. She doesn't have any full-length pants that will stay up when she's active (which is always . . . that's a big part of why she's so skinny!). Her one pair of adjustable-waist pants has buttons and don't seem comfortable when they're all scrunched in.
She can't wear her shoes with her footed pajamas, and they do take the kids outside. I suggested tights, but they thought those would make her too warm when she's inside.
She has two (thrift store finds) Okie-Dokie outfits that are a one piece that looks like two, but they are the next size up and aren't a material that I can roll the pants legs and get them to stay up. (They don't have feet, so she will be able to wear those with socks and shoes when she's a little taller)
My only thoughts are to 1) Hand-sew the overalls closed where the buttons are, and hope she can still get into them by pulling them over her head since they open fully at the bottom with snaps and 2) Google to see if Okie-Dokie still makes any one-piece outfits like the ones we've found.
There is no budget for this. I've spent the last six weeks making sure that the girls would have stuff that was appropriate for their centers and now Ha's stuff isn't acceptable.
Oh, and thankfully today is a day off. Because I need a minimum of four outfits by tomorrow, and could need as many as six by Friday.
I understand the need, but I don't know what to do, and neither of the teachers had any ideas except to say one other child (who I didn't see) had one outfit that would work, but they didn't know what it was or where her parents bought it.)
Do any of you wise mamas have any suggestions?
But now she's in daycare, and it's getting cool. I have been putting her in overalls. . . except yesterday she managed to get a button off, and now they don't want me sending her in anything with buttons.
She doesn't have any overalls without buttons. She doesn't have any full-length pants that will stay up when she's active (which is always . . . that's a big part of why she's so skinny!). Her one pair of adjustable-waist pants has buttons and don't seem comfortable when they're all scrunched in.
She can't wear her shoes with her footed pajamas, and they do take the kids outside. I suggested tights, but they thought those would make her too warm when she's inside.
She has two (thrift store finds) Okie-Dokie outfits that are a one piece that looks like two, but they are the next size up and aren't a material that I can roll the pants legs and get them to stay up. (They don't have feet, so she will be able to wear those with socks and shoes when she's a little taller)
My only thoughts are to 1) Hand-sew the overalls closed where the buttons are, and hope she can still get into them by pulling them over her head since they open fully at the bottom with snaps and 2) Google to see if Okie-Dokie still makes any one-piece outfits like the ones we've found.
There is no budget for this. I've spent the last six weeks making sure that the girls would have stuff that was appropriate for their centers and now Ha's stuff isn't acceptable.
Oh, and thankfully today is a day off. Because I need a minimum of four outfits by tomorrow, and could need as many as six by Friday.
I understand the need, but I don't know what to do, and neither of the teachers had any ideas except to say one other child (who I didn't see) had one outfit that would work, but they didn't know what it was or where her parents bought it.)
Do any of you wise mamas have any suggestions?