K. is going through a phase where he only wants to wear pajamas. He reluctantly puts on clothes for daycare but then changes into pajamas as soon as he walks in our door.
Sometimes, more than 1 pair of pajamas at the same time.
Then, he goes and stands at the top of the stairs. He yells, "MOM." "MOMMA" "MOMMY" until I say, "introducing K., the pajama boy." Then, with a huge smile on his face, he runs down the stairs, says, "Tadaa.", and goes on with his day.
The only exception is for spiderman. My boy got a Spiderman costume for Christmas (thanks to the 70% off after Halloween sales). Once he opened the costume, he immediately took off his "Christmas Boy" and but on his Spiderman. Then, he ate his Christmas dinner in the costume, played for the rest of the day in the costume, played the next day in the costume, etc. etc. It has reached a point now where spiderman and pajama boy are both a part of our daily routine.
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| spiderman at the dentist |
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| spiderman and his pal cinderella |
The cons of this new found wierdness are 1) that I have to keep track because when he gets in his pajamas early it throws off my routine; I found last week that I embarrassingly forgot to bathe him for 3 nights because he was already ready for bed. 2) I'm not allowed to call him by his name, only pajama boy or spiderman so half the time he doesn't come when he is called and he has a built in excuse
The pro 1) my boy can now put on his own pants because I refuse to keep dressing and redressing him. It makes this OT proud.!
