PJ Rivalry

Mara and Micah have needed PJs all summer. (But do you really need PJs? . . . We’ve been sending them to bed in random t-shirts and shorts.)

This past week, however, both kids’ pajamas suddenly multiplied! At Carters clearance sale, I found Micah a 5-pack of onesies (Fall 2009 print) for $3.36! The onesies matched with some of his random PJ shorts. I also found him a 3-piece pajama set with a dog playing a guitar, which is Micah’s absolute favorite, since he is into all things guitar these days! And finally, a two-piece set with a smiling bulldozer on the shirt, and the pants are a print with bulldozers, backhoes and dump trucks. He loves backhoes lately too (“Cack-hoe! Cack-hoe!” he says)–so both sets were a big hit with him!–and with me too, since each set was about $2.25. So for about $8, he is set on PJs, and has some that he actually loves to wear!

I didn’t find girls’ PJs at Carters, within my “price range.” However, on Saturday at the clothing swap, I found a couple pairs of PJ pants and one shirt in Mara’s size.

Her favorite, of course, are the bright pink silky pair of Carters pants with cherries on them!

She came in Micah’s room so hyped about her pants. “LOOK, Micah!” she exclaimed. “I got new PJs!”

Mara can be so very in-her-own-world, rejoicing about her own things, but clueless about how others might be feeling or thinking.

So I asked her: “Mara, did you see? Micah got new PJs too.”

“Hm,” she observed tersely. “They’rrrre . . . pretty cool,” she conceded reluctantly. Then, the return of the exuberance: “But, LOOK, Micah! See mine?! They’re pink! And shiny!”

Micah shook his head, unimpressed. “Noooo,” he said. “No cack-hoes.”