Don’t I look handsome? Everybody’s going to love my style.


He tells me this and asks me to take his picture with the pumpkin.


He’s got his ‘fancy shirt with the long arm sleeves’ on today, and it makes him so proud to get all dressed up for school.


He doesn’t argue too much on other days when I show him what he needs to put on in the mornings, but he doesn’t get excited either.


He’s nothing if not dramatic. Theatrical, really.


It’s one of the many, many things I love about my oldest, and also one of the many things that drains my patience on certain days.


Because he can use that drama for good AND evil.