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This is Mathilda, my charming daughter, posing in her new (second hand) blue camo stretch pants. Underneath the pink jacket is her new favorite Spiderman t-shirt that is too big and not really cute at all. We got it for a buck at Chloe's Closet, a great little consignment store for kid's clothes in Bernal Heights, San Francisco.

For some reason,

Mathilda has become a Spiderman nut. My first experience of this was when we went to Target in search of panties. In my eagerness to encourage her to use the "potty" (I hate that word and it has quickly become party of my daily vocabulary...urgh!), I decided to let her pick out her own panties. I had visions of cute pink undies with maybe an interesting stripe design or somesuch dancing in my head. Nope. Mathilda was all about the Spiderman briefs. Yes, I said briefs. They don't make spidey panties for girls. Oh she's a tough little nugget, for sure, and hey, we live in San Francisco so we're definitely open minded and all that, but it really is a crack up that my darling offspring is happiest when her tender bottom is clad in blue boy's briefs with Spidey and his buddy, The Hulk, stamped across her buttocks, looking like they're going to grab me by the throat if Mathilda has to deign to wear her adorable Hello Kitty panties.

The funny thing is that I don't know how she learned about Spidey...preschool? She does seem to hang with the boys more than the girls. Notice also the blue running shoes. The topper on this outfit is the horrible flight jacket that DH bought for her at the airport aeronautical store or whatever the hell that store is at SFO. We were just at the San Francisco Zoo today and while Mathilda and her friends, Max & Quinn, were running around the playground, I silently envied the parents of the girls dressed in real dresses with tights and cute rainboots. There was even one who had a little puffy tutu on over her pants. How proud those parents must be of their feminine, lovely daughters... But I didn't see any of those girls leaping off the 3 foot high platform into the sand! Yeah! Go Mathilda! You rock!