More Compromising

Wednesday on a whim I decided to take the kids to get their pictures taken. Sounds simple enough, right? Not when you have a sixteen year old wearing a Pantera shirt that read "Cowboys from Hell" that day. I knew that it was not going to be an easy thing to do to get him to dress in something appropriate. I decided it was best to try and compromise instead. I took him to JC Penney's and we agreed on the only shirt that we could. I then bought another one in brown for Marcus. I didn't pick Bre up anything cause I knew she had all kinds of new clothes in her closet that hadn't even been worn yet and surely I could find something that wouldn't clash too bad.
So there they are sitting on their stools waiting to get their picture taken and the photographer just couldn't stand it anymore after a couple of clicks. She walks over to Dylan and swipes his hair out of his eye. Now this is the eye that we hardly ever see because there is always a chunk of black hair covering it up. I snickered and told him once again to compromise by at least wiping some of it back. He did and all was going well till she went to take a picture of Dylan by himself. She had him to put his hand under his chin. When he did she immediately noticed his thumb sticking through a hole in the cuff of his new shirt (he cuts a hole for his thumb through every long sleeve shirt that he gets). She sighs and says "oh my goodness", walks over and pulls his thumb back through the hole. At this point I lost it and started laughing.
People crack me up. It is just hair, it is just a hole in his cuff. There are way worse things he could be doing. He will eventually cut his hair one day and as far as the shirt goes oh well, it is just a piece of clothing. If these were the biggest issues we faced raising our kids then we would be dang lucky. Of course I would rather him have a nice short haircut in his natural color and wearing a button up polo but that wouldn't be Dylan. He would be miserable and that in turn would make me miserable. There are just bigger things going on in the world other than long hair and a holey shirt.