YOU GUYS! THERE IS HOPE!
I don't know if anyone has ever noticed, but Mila has never in her life worn jeans. She absolutely positively refused from the moment she was born. You might think that's impossible, but it's not. It is not an exaggeration to say that child does not do things she doesn't want to do. When she was very tiny and I once tried to put jeans on her, I was met with a hysterical fit that most people would reserve for some form of torture like having a tooth pulled out through their eye socket.
Not Mila, though. She is convinced fashion is worth fighting about.
It was fine, though. The kid has been so tiny for so long that it has been difficult to find jeans that would potentially fit her anyway. At 5 1/2 years of age, she still generally wears a size 4T, except that pants tend to be too short. Even leggings can be a challenge. Mila has several pair that appear to be cropped but really are just too short but fit her fine otherwise. It's not that she's tall, by the way. She just genuinely has oddly long legs considering how short she is.
I've tried to test the jeans water a few times. I've been met with a "ARE YOU KIDDING? HELL TO THE NO," each time. Mila wasn't just not willing to wear jeans; she wasn't willing to talk about wearing jeans.
Alexis fixed it.
It was about two weeks ago when we were wandering around the mall and Alexis found a pair of jeans with sequins and unicorns and all sorts of rainbow flash on them. Basically, they represented all of Mila's favorite things, but embroidered on her enemy. There was a discussion and some hilarious subliminal selling, but next thing I knew, Alexis had sucked Mila into thinking maybe she wanted said jeans.
They were $40. The best response I have for that is, "HELL TO THE NO." That's an awful lot of money for something that history says will sit in a drawer forever.
Me saying "No" is what sold Mila. That kid LOVES a challenge so being told she couldn't have something was an effective way to get her to want it REAL bad. I still didn't cave, but Mila focused her efforts on trying to convince me.
She cleaned the playroom in exchange for a pair of jeans. I didn't even buy THOSE jeans. I found a cheap pair at Target and Mila was all in.
AND SHE WORE THEM.
Once.
I mean, she may never wear them again, but does it matter? I got a clean playroom out of the deal so I'm pretty sure I already won.