I love the idea of Monkey Bar Buddies. Pea won’t wear anything but a dress these days, and if you could only see how she carries herself in one, you’d totally be on-board with my new rule of “only shorts on camp days.” You’d also totally be on-board with my need for major damage control after wrangling her into said pair of shorts on camp days. It’s more than my psyche can handle. So her best friend’s mom and I were talking about the situation last week, and she showed me the cutest little ‘boy shorts’ made for little girls, in pink, with little bows on them, and I thought to myself, “these are totally going to be Pea-worthy, perfect underneath a dress on a camp day, buh-bye to the morning battle of clothing options…”

Of course, it took me an entire week to get around to looking them up on Google, and when I did…

No. No no no no no. A big fat no.

$16 a pair.

I don’t even pay that much money for my own panties. And I like nice bottoms!

Next…

The idea is a good one. And yes, I’ve sent her to camp in a dress with shorts underneath, but she was miserable, and her complaints of feeling “bulky” sent me back to my own childhood. It was also spent in dresses with shorts underneath. Hanging upside-down from the monkey-bars. And feeling nothing short of… well… bulky. And so I’m not going to put her through that. Again.

And bicycle shorts? Eh. They conjure up unpleasant thoughts of women stuffed into them – like sausages in too-small casings – women who should not be wearing them – do you know what I mean? And do I sound mean? Oh, well. Sorry. But I speak the truth. Not pretty. Doesn’t look comfortable. Besides, do they even make them for a 4-year old? I don’t even want to know…

And so, it’s back to the drawing board…