Saturday, October 03, 2009

In Ukraine ...

... little boys wear tights. Dietrich and I went on a stocking hunt yesterday. Here three new pairs drying on the hot-water pipe in our bathtub.

8 comments:

Gypmar said...

Too cute.

shaun said...

Riiiiight. We can't tell scale from that picture, and those are really Eric's, I bet. And he loves 'em. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

auntieJ said...

I love how they look like sox to the knees. My first (indelicate) thought was do they have an,um,opening for boys?
Send Amanda your prayers...she's due in a week and already 3cm. Can't wait to be a Granny. Love you

josieO said...

Nope, Dietrich has to wiggle 'em down when he needs to use the loo.

Three centimeters without labor! I'm jealous!

Eric Frei said...

Very cute. Much cuter than looking over and seeing that Peter had pulled out a purple leotard, skirt, crown and shoes from the girl's dress up box the other day. Maybe I should buy him some boy tights, too. :) Instead, I geared him toward his new spiderman costume. Shelly

eric O said...

ooh! OOH! Spiderman costume? Are we gonna get that as a hand-me-down when it doesn't fit "Peetuh" anymore? I'll pay for the shipping. (And I'll buy Peter some human growth hormone to speed up the process - not that Peter really needs any help in that department.)

Eric Frei said...

Definitely! Although I bought it a little big, so it might actually be a while. (maybe not, though - like you said, the kid grows at an insane speed!) I got the muscled kind and I actually got it through ebay for about $5, plus $12 shipping. They shipped from Tokyo, so if you wanted to not wait for the hand me down and get one through ebay, it might actually get to you faster than it did to me!

Are you sure you don't want the hand me down of the purple ensemble? I'll bet Dietrich makes a pretty princess, like Peter. hee hee...

Emmachka said...

I miss this cultural nuance!! We used to call them "body socks" so that the boys wouldn't be bugged about "tights"... ha! Still, they were warm, and most winter Sundays were spent in tights with snowpants over the top.