On the morning of picture day, we (OK, I) had picked out and ironed a cute dress. The bodice was the perfect blue-green to complement Anya's pretty blue eyes. Over breakfast, we talked about why it was important that she look nice for picture day and wear the outfit I picked out (normally, I let her wear whatever she wants as long as it's weather-appropriate). She said she wanted to wear pink like one of her friends. The compromise was that she wear the dress for pictures, which were first thing at school, and then could change into whatever she wanted to wear for the rest of the day.
As you can see below, it didn't quite work out that way. After Anya got off the school bus, she proudly told me that she decided to change into playclothes *before* the pictures. Unfortunately, the pink shirt she grabbed was pretty stained and I think was in her dirty clothes pile.
Her consequence for her decision to go against us was to cover the cost of retakes (if needed) and the cost of the class picture, since we can't retake that. Fortunately, the stain isn't obvious and we didn't bother with retakes. But funny how she's front and center in the class pic. Notice her shiny dress shoes :-)
In the moment, we were pretty annoyed with her. A few weeks out, though, it's funny and now there's a story to go with along with the pictures.
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