The preschooler is starting to know too much.

Daddy, Momma and Claire are at a local big-box store buying the newest car seat (booster) for Claire.  While there, we notice that they have children’s clothing on sale.  The sale applies to two items purchased.  After this latest growth spurt, and turn in the weather, Claire is due for some new clothes.

Claire is immediately drawn to a shirt, so we put it in the cart.  While trying to find our second item of clothing to apply for the sale, we’re flipping through the accompanying pants.  Claire finds one she loves.  Oddly enough, it doesn’t really match the shirt.  (Why are they even on this rack?  Who knows…)

Far be it from me to run a fashion show every day, but still…we wanted to steer her toward the matching pants.

“Oh, Claire.  I don’t see your size,” Daddy says with a quick wink to me.  “You need a 3T, and I just don’t see that on the rack.  Here!  Let’s see if they have your size in this other style,” he says, pointing her in the direction of the other matching pants.

“I don’t like those, Daddy,” Claire says as she’s looking through the ones she does like.  She’s flipping through them like a pro.  Click, click, click.  “But, look!  Look, Daddy!  They do have my size!” she screeches.

She runs over to us with a pair of pants in her hands.

“See!  They’re a THREE TEE!  See?  That’s a THREE.  That’s a TEE.  THREE TEE.”

Yes, she’s found a 3T on the rack.  All by herself.  So, into the cart it went.

Our forms of trickery will need to evolve or fall by the wayside.  The preschooler is starting to know too much.