If At First You Don't Succeed, Distract 'Em
My poor baby's acne:
And believe it or not, this is an improvement.
As usual, my unflappable husband has remained very calm throughout this Baby Acne Drama. While I've been pacing around hysterically, stopping only occassionally to smear hydrocortisone on Alex's face (per doctor's orders, after I nagged the poor woman to death), my husband has been sitting back in his oversized leather chair, eyeing me in his oh-so-very-English way: "I say, dahling. Perhaps you should remain calm. Stiff upper lip, and all that. Pip, pip. Smashing."
Okay, he doesn't actually talk like that. To be honest, every time I passed him he muttered something more like: "Bloody woman."
Anyway, to watch him, you would think that Alex's face didn't bother him in the least. At least, that's what I thought.
Until this morning.
This morning, I had to go into work fairly early, leaving Marcus to get Alex ready for her day. When I returned from work to relieve the nanny, I found Alex dressed in this:
Yes, that's right: bright purple cardigan with cherry red sash, over a lime green onesie, and white socks.
The only possible explanation for this ensemble is that Marcus intended to draw the viewer's eyes downward from her face and instead toward this bizarre get-up, thus distracting the viewer from her blemishes. Rather clever, I think.
I'm surprised he didn't top the outfit off with the pink three-toed shoes ...
Well, they're all definitely her colors. We can just think of it as celebrating Alex with color!
Posted by: Jody | Tuesday, March 23, 2004 at 10:26 AM
Way to go Marz - very hippy chick man!!!
And whats so bad about purple??? Ok not with lime green though mate.
Posted by: Aunty Andie | Wednesday, March 24, 2004 at 12:47 AM
Hilarious, actually green and purple together are somewhat complimentary colors. Like a purple flower with a green stem. But the white socks... I dont know. Your man must be an artist!
Posted by: Jennifer | Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at 08:35 PM
Hahaha! Thanks for making me smile. This was so funny to me on three levels:
1) My baby's acne looks almost exactly as bad as your baby's acne ...
2) I'm also married to an unflappable Englishman who is all "pip pip tut tut" about the issue ...
3) My husband also loves to dress my daughter in mixed patterns and clashing colors ...
Oh my God, do we have the same life??????
:-)
Posted by: Becki | Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 04:31 PM