About Pants

Living in Florida, we have very few "cold" days. Actually, we really only have about two months (December & January) where you have a good chance of being able to wear pants the whole entire month.

Eli has been looking super cute in jeans(don't have a picture yet), khakis, cargo pants and track pants. But besides looking adorable, wearing pants has given us a new experience that we didn't have in August, September, October or November. You see, when Eli wears pants and we are out and about, no one stares at him. People don't know he has a prosthetic leg.

We were at Starbucks this past weekend and Eli was walking from bar stool to bar stool and around and around this big ottoman. There were two older ladies sitting close and they thought he was the cutest thing. They started chatting with me and warning me that once he starts walking on his own I am in BIG trouble and that I am then going to wish he never started walking. They were sweet and I just smiled and said "oh yeah" or something like that. If only they knew who they were talking to...

This has really got me thinking. You see, before Eli's surgery, many people would say things like, "When he wears pants, no one will even know," and on some level that really offended me. They were trying to comfort me and meant no harm. I felt that Eli should never be ashamed of his leg nor should he ever have to hide it. I still feel that way, but I do get what they meant.

I guess my point is that all of this truly does make me sad. It makes me sad because I want people to see Eli the way they see him in December & January all year long. I know I shouldn't care what other people think, but it still hurts me as his Mama to know that there will be people who just can't see beyond his leg.

Anyways, I am just going to chalk that up to one more thing that I have absolutely no control of and go enjoy my cute (almost 15th month old) in his adorable pants.