Fashion vs. Nudity

   Ava in her preferred state.      Sophie in her preferred state.

Sophie loves clothes. Ava hates them.  Both attitudes present challenges in the morning.  With Sophie, the conversation goes something like this:

Me: Time to get ready for school.

Sophie: I want to wear my purple dress.

Me: Okay.  Go put it on.

Sophie: (from her room) I need my _______ (fill in the blank with needed accessory).

Me: No you don't.  Just put some shoes on. 

Sophie: (from her room) No!! I need my wrist warmers-green-sunglasses-hello-kitty-ballet-slippers-pink-babylegs-candy-necklace!!!!!

Me: Sophie, we're going to be late.  We'll look for those later.

Then there's some anguished crying over not looking her best; then we go to school.

Ava starts her day in a diaper and nothing else. If the world was a kind place, she'd stay that way.  Here's how school prep goes with her most mornings:

Me: Ava, time to get dressed.

Ava: NO!!!!

Me: (holding up an article of clothing) You need to put on some clothes.

Ava: NO!!!!

Me: You can't go to school in a diaper. Don't you want to go to school?

Ava: NO!!!!

Then one of two things happen:

1. I threaten to leave her home while Sophie and I go to school. She lets me put her clothes on, but with great protest.

2. I threaten to leave her home while Sophie and I go to school. She says, "bye bye." I put her clothes on, with great protest.