"Saux" pas

Ever since the weather started warming up, Caleb has insisted on pairing his shorts with brightly-colored socks pulled half-way up his calves. Horrified, I have attempted to correct his fashion faux pas by begging and pleading with him to wear ankle socks instead, but to no avail.

On Friday afternoon I arrived at the twins' school about half an hour early for pick-up, so Moses and I just hung out in the car and watched a class of 6th-graders play kickball for a while. Upon closer inspection, I noticed that about half of the 6th-grade boys were wearing colorful socks pulled halfway up their calves! A wave of shame swept over me as I realized that I had inadvertently tried to thwart Caleb's attempts to be "cool". As a relatively young mom (with a pretty good fashion sense of my own, if I must say so myself), I assumed that I would always be somewhat cognizant of the trends of my boys' generation, but apparently I've already started to lose touch. I guess I need to observe the 6th graders at recess more often. Or maybe I just need to watch more iCarly...

On an unrelated note, as I'm sitting here typing this, the boys and Joe are playing WWE Smackdown on the Gamecube. Within the span of a few minutes, Moses has legitimately corrected his older brothers twice:


Caleb: Did that bad guy losed?
Moses: No, that bad guy lost.


Joshua: I'm so glad we have this movie!
Moses: It's not a movie, it's a video game.