Backseat driver

The other day I was at a stoplight and the driver in front of me wasn't paying attention so I gave a quick honk to let him know the light was green. It must have really thrown off Calvin, this was our conversation:
Cal: What was that?!
me: I was just honking at the car in front of us so they knew the light was green
Cal: Why??
me: The other driver wasn't paying attention
Cal: Well, you could've rolled down your window to tell him.
I could tell he was concerned I was being mean by honking and I tried to let him know that it was a polite honk. Honking can be polite, right? Calvin doesn't think so.

High Fashion

Calvin is pretty known for his strong opinions on how he dresses. There are so many examples. He loves shorts sooo much. Last year when it got cold he would wear his shorts on top of his pants. This winter he caved when I told him he had to start wearing pants but will only wear one pair of jeans and he wears them over and over until I have to confiscate them for washing. He refuses to wear long sleeve shirts. Only short sleeves or sleeveless shirts are acceptable. And they have to be "cool", only he knows which ones are cool or not.

His boots. It's the first thing he puts on as soon as he wakes up from his nap. He would LOVE to wear them with shorts. They are getting too small, but still wants to wear them at all times. He insists that his jeans don't cover his boots. He is always stopping to tuck the front cuff of his jeans back into his boots. We've been trying to mandate more normal-shoe wearing and I guess it is a lot more difficult to tuck jeans into the front of shoes than it is in boots. Solution:

Fortunately, they don't stay tucked in very long and he hasn't put forth too much effort into tucking them back in.

Knicks fan?

This was a first: Calvin was eating breakfast in the kitchen and espn was on the TV. I noticed 4 clips on Jeremy Lin coming up so I left it there while I ate breakfast. Calvin asked, "Mom, why are you watching basketball??" I guess you could say I caught Lin-gitis