For The Record

Let it be noted:

On Wednesday, June 2, 2010, for the very first time ever in his entire six-year-long life, Kyle Macon Johnson-McCormick rejected the outfit laid out for him by his mother. Up until that date, for his entire baby-hood, toddler-hood, and child-hood, Kyle Macon Johnson-McCormick never once batted an eye at what his mother dressed him in. Up until that date, during his school-going years (pre-school and kindergarten so far), Kyle Macon Johnson-McCormick put on whatever his mother had laid out for him the night before. Note: such is also exactly the same for his twin brother Owen. But– on the morning of Wednesday, June 2, 2010, Kyle, still in his pajamas, and carefully carrying his nice little stack of an outfit, politely came to his mom, and asked, “Mom, do I have to wear this?” Putting on the most neutral-‘no-problem’-face she could muster, and using the most laissez-faire-‘non-issue’-tone she possibly could, Kyle’s mother said, “No, baby. Why? Is there something you’d rather wear?” Skipping off to his closet with a spring in his step, off went Kyle. He shortly re-appeared wearing the outfit pictured above. Mother and child hugged. Child, beaming with pride and independence. Mother, putting on a good act but secretly grieving. Let it be noted: some sort of major tide has turned. A bittersweet moment in the life of the J-Ms. (Also to note: strangely enough, Owen seemed to barely even notice that any of this transpired —- a major turning of another tide of some sort.)