Pumas

We are probably teaching our kids all the wrong things by telling them the names of the brands of the clothes they wear.  It's especially bad with shoes which are known around here as Keens, Uggs, and Pumas rather than sandals, boots, or tennis shoes.  It is rather hilarious, though, to hear our two-year old boy talking so passionately about his fashion choices.  Yesterday morning, I was getting dressed and Dash was in the closet with me (like always - the kid loves my clothes and shoes, my make-up and hair items) and I showed him that I was putting on my Puma shoes.  He got very excited and said he wanted to wear his Pumas just like me.  I headed out into the bedroom to keep getting ready, and a moment later, Dash ran out of the closet holding Josh's Pumas and said "Daddy wear Pumas, too!"  I don't know whether to be amazingly proud of his ability to categorize items at this young age or incredibly worried about the materialistic tendencies we are instilling.  Probably the latter since Ella then came into my room and got very pouty that she was the only person in the family without Pumas and told me that I should go out and buy her some right now.  Do I get any points for not running upstairs to log onto Zappos immediately?

Pluto (courtesy of Josh)

Josh rarely posts on Facebook but when he does, it's always pithy and like-worthy.  His most recent post was no exception:

As the owner of several 1970's era books about space (courtesy of her grandmother), Ella stubbornly refuses to accept the International Astronomical Union's 2006 declassification of Pluto as a planet. So much so that she added Pluto with a Sharpie to her 2012 era water bottle.  -- Josh