Spring 2009 Fashion Trends

The fashion trend for spring is geometric construction, goddess dressing, depression chic, athletic wear, and the trashy eighties are coming back (being a child of the 80's, I LOVE that!!).

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My Own Little Fashionista Diva

My eight year old daughter has an audition for the school's talent show tomorrow. She is going to sing Love Story by Taylor Swift. She has her outfit all picked out. She's wearing a black "slightly" off the shoulder top with a matching black skirt with pink flowers on it. Her hair is in braids right now so it'll be wavy for her audition tomorrow like Taylor Swift's hair.

My camera batteries are charging to film it all. I can't wait to see her in her little matching skirt outfit. She's going to look adorable. I can't wait to hear her sing for the first time in front of other people besides family. She loves dressing up and she loves to sing. Tomorrow she will do both.

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Toddler Struggles Over Clothes

Do you dress your kids or do you allow them to dress themselves (no matter what it looks like)?

I was watching Rachael Ray today and she had Kate Gosselin of TLC's reality show, Jon and Kate Plus 8, where she talked about the new line of children's clothing that she is doing with Healthtex (carried by Wal-Mart). It got me reminiscing about how my children were with getting dressed when they were younger and the battles over it. (No, I didn't hear Kate Gosselin address the rumors that are swirling around first about Jon cheating on her or Kate cheating on him. I don't watch their reality show myself. She did talk about her new children's book, Eight Little Faces, though.)

For my first two kids, they didn't really care when they were younger. They put on what was there and were happy with it. With my third daughter, dressing became a huge battle right down to the shoes during the "terrible twos" that I quickly figured out to let go. Unless we were going somewhere where she should be dressed properly, I let her pick out what she wanted and didn't cringe in front of her when none of it matched. (She is also the little artist and still likes to get her own clothes ready and put the outfits together herself. She is a stylin' girly-girl.) With my fourth daughter, she is particular about what she wants to wear by color. She wants to wear a certain color and how she decides what color she is going to wear is beyond me. When she has to go to pre-school, I pick out several outfits and let her pick one of them to avoid the early morning fights. If we're not going anywhere special, she can wear what she picks out as long as it is weather appropriate.

Getting toddlers and preschool-aged children dressed is not a battle that is easily won. As most mothers know, you really have to pick your battles. I decided years ago that getting dressed was a morning battle I didn't want.

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