Bolt Upright

Sport grew out of his size 6X pants last week. The week before his jeans were fine, then one day, bam, they wouldn’t stay done up. And when I looked more closely I realized that they were just barely long enough, despite the fact that when I bought them in September they were quite a bit too long. Huh. Must be a fluke, right? They… suddenly shrunk after being washed 7 or 8 times? Hmmm… here, Sport, try the other pair. Well… those ones did up ok, thanks to the elastic in the back, but they were at least an inch too short. Huh. We then went through every pair of pants, and guess what? Out of the six pairs of pants he has, all brand new in September…. two pairs still fit. One pair is a bit small, but wearable, and the other three pairs are laughable. On the bright side, at least now I have some hand-me-downs for Little Brother that don’t have holes in the knees.

And I know you don’t want to hear me start in about his shoes again, so since a picture is worth a thousand words, I’ll just let this one do the talking. On the left, my sandal. On the right, one of Sport’s new sneakers.

That is downright frightening, particularly when you consider that MY shoe is a size 10. I’m scared to have him try on his winter boots from last year – I really thought we would get another year’s wear out of them. (Hello, pipe dream, guess I should be over you by now.)