Duh.
On what planet does a healthy 5 year old boy wear a size 2T?
This is the second weekend that SS has come to our home wearing a size 2T. He's 5 years old and in a size 5! The first time this happend, I had picked him up from school and the poor kid looked like he could barely breathe. SD was also wearing a shirt that was 3 sizes too small (she's in a 9, but was wearing a 6). FH complained to BM about it, and she claimed that she was "so busy" that she didn't notice. Er, I know SS. He doesn't get dressed by himself. She would have known.
This weekend I didn't pay attention until I pulled his shirt out of the dryer. We don't share clothes from house to house. BM has a bad habit of letting them "disappear". Why yes, I'm sure that brand new top from Gymboree that actually FIT your daughter just "disappeared" .. but that's a story for another day. Anywho -- FH asked me if the shirt had shrunk because I looked at it in awe. Nope, 2T. ON A 5 YEAR OLD CHILD. Ignorant, bitch.
Part of me wants to call CPS to have them check up on the kids' living conditions at BM's. They're clothes always smell like piss. Up until recently, they had about 10 cats and a dog that pissed and shit wherever. I don't know.
Skids get on my nerves sometimes, but I still love them and don't want them living like that.
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Poor kids. That can't be
Poor kids. That can't be comfortable. I don't have much experience with this but I have read other comments on this site suggesting to keep the old clothes and label them with the date for evidence that she is not clothing them properly. Maybe you can go buy a cheap package of shirts so you have something to send him home in and won't feel a financial loss if you never see it again. BM used to "let" SD wear clothes that were far too small because SD liked them. Hello? If you just throw it away when they aren't looking they usually don't remember anyways!!
BM is so concerned about her
BM is so concerned about her own clothes and shoes and purses and hair but she has no common sense when it comes to dressing her kids. Well, I take that back -- she dresses her daughter well. Although I will be nit-picky and say that she always buys her daughter clothes that fit her RIGHT NOW, not that she can grow in to...but I digress.
The issue is with her son, my SS3 -- he's always in clothes too small for him, too. He wears a 4t now and she's still putting him in 2t pants that he can hardly pull off over his butt and are high-waters. Or she'll dress him in SD's hand-me-downs, which are very obviously girl clothes. Flair leg jeans and a shirt that although it is blue, is all sparkly and designed. It's ridiculous. Did I mention that she paints his nails, too? Purples and pinks?
Sounds to me like maybe your BM just wants YOU to suck it up and buy him stuff to wear to her house so she doesn't have to... ?
BM gets $667/month in CS, but
BM gets $667/month in CS, but she's too busy wondering what she can buy for herself. It's ridiculous. However, she considers the clothes that we buy to be "barely decent".
That's awful putting him in
That's awful putting him in girl clothing. Yes, that would stick out. There are too many places to go buy cheap, 2nd hand clothing on a limited budget for that. That just sounds like a mixed bag of lazy and neglect.
SD6 always makes her appearance in small, tattered clothing of course to make her look like a "victim" when DH picks her up after he is off work. NVM the C/S he pays out for these things and that the man is on his feet at 42 years old over 50 hrs. a week. I could never let my kid go out in public looking like that, ever. Alas, BM does not care. Of course you know SD6 is sent back in the rags she shows up with. DH does wash the smell out of them first. (notice I said DH)
I'm not doing laundry for his ex-wife. No way.
I wouldn't return the clothes
I wouldn't return the clothes she sends if it is too small. When the kids return to her with no clothes, dh can say, "oh, those were a few sizes too small so I gave them to goodwill. I thought you sent them by accident." he can continue doing that til he buys them new clothes in their sizes or until she runs out of clothes!