"But I wanna wear a dress!"

Last night I had one of those moments as a parent where the only thing you can do is look away and try not to laugh out loud.

Here's the set up. The past week, ever since school got out, our daycare lady has been having some "issues" with Lily being very clingy to Maggie. Has to eat with her, can't do anything without her, and all around being very whiny and miserable if Maggie is not around. Although very cute at the beginning, it's starting to wear on poor Kelly. Also at the same time, Lily has become very adamant about wearing a dress like a "Princess" every day. Now, we do not have 7 dresses so she can wear one every day, nor does the weather always cooperate with our dress loving freak of a daughter. Needless to say this has led to quite a few confrontations in the morning as Daddy tries to get Lily ready before he has to leave for work.

Now - yesterday - Once again Lily had to be place into "timeout" at Kellys because she through a fit because Maggie had finished her lunch and was leaving the table but Lily wasn't done - but since Maggie was done she HAD to be done. Kelly is not a fan of children leaving the table without finishing their plates and they ended up butting heads over this. After a temper tantrum (Lily, not Kelly) Lily was put into timeout and then had to eat her unfinished lunch at snack time. All of this is to show that when Danelle got to daycare to pick up the girls we once again got a less than glowing report about our girl Lily.

So - as part of the punishment to try and teach her she can't behave that way we told her she could NOT wear a dress to Kelly's tomorrow - in fact she could not wear one again until she went a full day without any time outs at Kellys. I made sure to repeat this a couple times throughout the evening so that i knew it was sinking in with her.

Flash forward to 10:15 pm - We had put both kids to bed an hour and half earlier - Maggie was sound asleep and Danelle and I were watching the news in bed - I got up to feed Wrigley when I saw movement in Lilys' room - I peaked my head in and there she was in her bed - WEARING A DRESS! - not just any dress - but a formal dress her Grandma Janet had given her at christmas for dress up - complete with pink fuzzy slippers for shoes and tiara on her head.

"Lily" I said. "What are you wearing?"

Lily looked at me - put her chin to her chest and just said "But I WANNA wear a dress!"

Apparently she figured that if she wasn't going to get to wear a dress to Kelly's - dammit - i'm wearing one to bed! At that point the only thing I could do was turn away before she saw me laugh. I just left her like that. When i woke her up this morning she was still in the dress - I didn't say a word - just took the dress of and got her into shorts and t-shirt for the day.

This stubborn kid is gonna kill me when she's a teenager.