Papai Dresses Daniel: The Surprise Outfit

Jonny loves to choose Daniel's clothes and to put on things "that no adult man" would ever wear. He just finds it very cute that Daniel gets to wear things he would never get caught wearing, like "his light blue pants and matching yellow shorts and shirts."

Just the other afternoon, Jonny changed Daniel before his nap and put him to bed. After we all woke up from our naps (we love having a family nap on weekends after lunch!), Jonny said to me: "I've got a surprise for you, I put on some "home clothes" on Daniel before his nap." And I thought "Ooohhh, what did he choose this time?"

And then suddenly Daniel appeared, all happy after his nap dressed up in a way I had never seen before: with the light blue pants and a way too big Brazilian national football (soccer) shirt! He looked so cute!

I had bought the shirt at the local thrift store where I buy most of Daniel's clothes for only $1.90. It's the original Nike shirt and though I knew it was too big, I thought it was so lucky for me to find it and so I bought it, thinking that he would wear it in about 2 years... Well, Jonny had a completely different idea!

And so this became the photo opportunity of the afternoon and I took loads of pictures of Daniel in the outfit that his Papai had chosen, knowing that the Brazilian side of the family would love to see him wearing it. And it was a sweet reminder that he is indeed a "Half-Brazilian Boy!"

Will he grow up to be a football player? I know for sure his Papai hopes so; maybe that's why he put it on, secretly hoping the shirt would "rub off" some of those famous "samba skills"! :-)

Check out the slide show with several of the photos I took. The photos also show you all the different things Daniel gets up to in a just a few minutes of playing in the living room!