Josie's was a cream shirt with children wearing shirts that spelled out a phrase. I think it translated to "We are friends." I am going with what Chris told me because I know not a lick of French.
Xander's shirt is pictured here and I was told it translates to something like "I don't like school."
When Chris returned from France's house (where Xander thought his dad was staying) he gave the kids their shirts and told them what they meant. Xander had a look of disbelief and tried to argue that he DID like school. Chris tried to explain that it was a joke and of course Xander likes school. (Chris later told me that he couldn't find another shirt for Xander with French on it and had to settle on this one.)Xander was having none of this 'joke' shirt. He has worn it a grand total of three times. Two of those times it was the last clean shirt he had.
This past week he was down to this shirt as his last clean shirt and he was nearly in tears about having to wear it. So I pointed out that he had clean shirts in his closet that he could wear, his nice shirts that he wears to church. He immediately brightened up and picked out a polo to wear. He picked shirts out of the closet for the next two days.
So I had a little talk with him that Dad bought him the French shirt and it would mean a lot to Dad if Xander would wear it again. Xander agreed that he would wear it one more time. The next morning he woke up and picked that shirt to wear and when I complimented it he reminded me that it was his last time wearing it.
I take comfort in the fact that he's nearly outgrown it anyway.
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