Endless Summer and Hand arounds

One week into my daily recording and I am already trying to catch up on posts.....It is still warm here so I decided to sneak in our fave green shorts one more time. I bought this tee a while ago on the sale rack at the Gap, but it was way too big for B, so I passed it up to BFF (who in spite of being a few months younger than B is a full year + ahead in size...he is a very tall kid!) for a while. It was BFF's favorite shirt for a good 6 months, but he finally outgrew it and handed it back to B. Soon we'll hand it back down to BFF's soon to arrive little brother! I like the handing back and forth; they get clothes, and we get the enjoyment of seeing other dear one's in favorite items. The clothes are not so much hand-me-downs as they are hand-arounds.

New Shirt

A few things about this outfit. First, we are enjoying a little bit of an Indian Summer here in Brooklyn. Does that make white pants after labor day okay? Second, I wanted baby boy to wear his yellow rainboots, but he wanted to wear the "vintage" reeboks (they are his new favorite shoes, all though they are really too big for him still) When I tried to talk him into the boots, he said, "but mommy it's not raining!" I guess truth and practicality trumped fashion in this case. Third, this is his new shirt, from Old Navy, but via my favorite Salvation Army on Bedford and No. 7th. We found it last week, however I finally got around to washing it the other day. B was so excited he wore it to bed and then to school the next day. I am zooming in for the close-up:

It's a Super Robot Ninja, because being one just wasn't enough.

"Vintage"

I never know how to dress myself this time of year, and now I have to figure out how to dress BB. I went for the sweater with shorts look today....I'm never sure about that, does it really work? I do like these "vintage" reeboks...vintage is another thing I am never sure about, these reeboks are about 5 years old, a hand-me-down, which makes them ancient in toddler years, but does that make them vintage? I see all these 80s clothes marked as vintage these days, but I still have some from my teen years...does that make me vintage? and is this how my mom felt when bell-bottoms came back in during the early 90s? Am I my mother? Vintage, such a fraught word.

Smile for Grandma

I was trying to take B's pic and he was making the most sour faces, then I said "smile for Grandma!" and I got this bright little face.

Since I am starting this recording project a little into the school year already, here is an outfit baby boy wore last week. Mostly this outfit is re-mixed: his octopus tee from Tea, his yellow rainboots from Vincent (and Smoochie Baby) a pair of awesome argyle knee socks and another pair of shorts from H & M. Forgot to point out in the last post, his super-short, super-big boy new school haircut.

First day of School

Baby boy dancing his way to his first day of school in a pair of shorts from H&M, an old fave of a dress shirt, from Zara Kids, via the Salvation Army, and his See Kai Run sandels. I want to try to record him every day for a year and post a pic here. I'm not so good with the daily things so we'll see how it goes. I think it will be interesting to see a year of my son's life in stop-action style.