Asa's Chemlab T-Shirt Gets Noticed...

Chemlab Kids T-Shirt --Back
Originally uploaded by oldforest

Today, when I picked up Asa from preschool, one of his teachers asked if I could refrain from sending Asa to class wearing the t-shirt pictured here. The teacher herself could clearly have cared less, but evidently another parent was offended enough to speak up...what's funny, is that without any encouragement on my part, this has become one of Asa's favorite shirts(along with his green Diego shirt that lights up). He had actually worn it yesterday, then to bed last night and then absolutely refused to change out of it this morning -- and as I've learned(as cliche as it sounds), you pick your battles, and getting Asa to change shirts wasn't one worth fighting. Ironically, the shirt has a hole in it now and given the fact that Fall is on its way, there weren't going to be too many more opportunities to wear it anyway...of course, despite the fact that I'm just not a black t-shirt guy, I almost want to dig out the adult sized version, which is not nearly as tame, and wear it when Asa's got class.

Chemlab Kids T-shirt --Front
Originally uploaded by oldforest

Now that I'm thinking about it, this picture was taken the same day as the "Sneak A Peak" event at Bradley Hills Elementary School where Lily now goes for kindergarten. That means that although no one spoke up, potentially Asa was able offend another entire group of parents and kids -- and unlike, the other two-year olds in his class, most of the elementary school kids can read(oh, the horror!)...