Next!!

Just a little moan about my increasing irritation with Next kids clothes. IMO, Next seem to do the best character clothes for boys, so you can buy clothes with Star Wars, Mario, Ben 10 etc etc on them, which all parents of boys will know is absolutely de rigeur for your young man-about-town.

However, when it comes to pyjamas and swimwear, they seem to have a very odd sizing policy; they sell stuff in the 3-4 year size and then 5-6 year, but nothing in the 4-5 year size. This, to me, is really odd as there's a 14 cm size gap between clothes for a 4 year old (up to 104cm) and a 6 year old (118cm). If, like Jacob, you're on the small side and only just growing out of your age 4 clothes, it means that you're going to be wearing clothes that are massively too big for you. Next's kids' clothes tend to be generous in their sizing too, which will make it worse.

I don't know if its because they think swimming trunks and pyjamas don't matter - the first ones just get wet and the second you wear in bed - but I still don't think that's a good enough reason for wearing too big/small clothes.

I've just bought a couple of pairs of swimming shorts for Jacob and I've opted for the smaller size - I'm hoping that Next's generous sizing will mean he can still fit into them, but I'm not convinced at all. I can't decide whether to send them back and take a punt on the bigger size or just spend some time on the interweb looking for something similar.

Bah.

School Photo

He looks so grown up in this picture; where did the time go? :)

Progress

Sam has words!! Three of them!!

No (he's good at this, says it a lot)
Nana (when he wants a banana)
Loon (balloon, like the one Jacob brought back from the birthday party this arvo)

Progress!