I feel the need to put it on the record that Raine picks her own outfits. Despite my best efforts to persuade her to wear something “normal” she insists on wearing Punky-Brewster-style outfits. Believe it or not, this outfit was a tamed down compromise of what she proposed to wear — plaid bermuda shorts with the pink leggings. Imagine her tearing around the playground in this outfit, along with her white pageboy hat and polka-dot sunglasses, that was the scene at the playgroup a couple weeks ago!

I’ll be honest, the reason I feel the need to put this on the record is because my sister and I have relentlessly harassed my mom about some of the hair-dos we are sporting in the family photo album. I can see Raine looking through this blog ten years from now saying, “Mom! What in the world did you dress me in!” So I just want to say, “IT WASN’T ME!!! That was all you baby!”