My Personal Favorite, Jama-Lama-Ding-Dongs

[brigid]

Niko’s going through a phase where he doesn’t want to wear pyjamas to bed, he just wants to sleep in his clothing.

Whatever.

I really don’t care.

You want to be uncomfortable with your pants all twisted up around you? Knock yourself out. I’m sure you have your reasons, which are four year old reasons, and this is not a hill I’m interested in dying on.

So he sleeps in his clothing.

Which is a refreshing change from when he just insists on wearing pyjamas all the time, and the only reason it’s refreshing is because if someone drops by unexpected at noon at least one of us will be dressed and I won’t look like a TOTAL slackass. I, afterall, have a very important excuse as to why I wear all cotton jammies all the time if I can (a skin condition that I will one day, most likely, have to go on SSDI because of) (fun times).

But sometimes I try to sweet talk him into donning his pyamas just out of a general feeling that I’m doing something wrong as a parent if I get him tooth-brushed, medicated, storied, snuggled, sung to, tucked in… and he’s still in street clothes. So I ask him if he wants his jammies. No? No jammies? What about his jimmy-jams? No? How about his jammadoodles? His jumpin’-jims? His jimmity jimmers? His jammimals? His jamalamadingdongs? No, no no! But he laughs as he’s saying no and I’ve given him options so whatever. WHATEVER.

He mostly calls them jimmyjams which is just OMG SO ADORABLE I’M DYING. I melt a little bit every time he says that. Even on nights when he’s super stressed out and throwing a temper tantrum and kicking and screaming about how he does/does not want his JIMMY JAMS. Red faced, screaming, banging around, JIMMY JAMS. It helps keep the pressure off.

We have to weed through and box up/toss most of his 4T jammies because they are too small. The waistbands are kind of stretched out and the legs/sleeves are too short. Nesko picked up some 5T jammies of a brand we’ve gotten him before and they are so bag on him… like, sometimes he’ll be walking around and his pants just start slipping down (ALTHOUGH TO BE FAIR sometimes he just pulls them down to let his butt hang out because he thinks that’s funny or something??) and he hitches them up a lot. He’s a skinny dude. But he no longer looks like he’s prepared for a flood (IRONIC because of the flooding we’ve had recently).

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Comments

[ofearthandstars]

I'm not going to lie, I lived for this stage of parenting - one less thing to worry about in the mornings! Of course, when it comes time to getting them out of it for a bath, that's another matter entirely.

Niko and his jimmy-jams sounds adorbs.

[brigid]

He likes baths so our big problem there is getting him OUT of the tub.