New Clothes For Our Daughter

Thanks to some good friends of ours, my daughter has a whole new wardrobe.  Our daughter is burning through clothes at a much faster rate now that she is attending daycare.  She gets to spend lots of time doing arts and crafts, and playing outside.  I think the playground is where the majority of the damage happens, but that’s a small price to pay for our daughter to have a good time and get exercise.

Anyway, a friend of ours dropped by a big bag of clothes that their daughter has outgrown.  Their daughter is a couple months older than ours but has grown at a faster pace than our daughter.  Both of the girls are good friends with each other and they just love getting together to play.

Our daughter (who is 3, almost 4) was ecstatic to get the clothes, but not for the reason you’d expect.  She was walking around all day, putting on different outfits and I caught her pulling the clothes up to her nose and smelling them.  At first I thought there was a problem.  I said, “What’s wrong honey?  Do the clothes smell bad?  Do we need to put them in the laundry?”  Her reply surprised me.  She said, “No, they don’t need to go in the laundry, daddy.  They smell like Maddie”.  As she said those words, she had a huge grin on her face.  For the rest of the day, and even the next, she would tell us that she liked how her clothes smelled because they smell like her friend.