After some thought, we explained to Dylan that he cannot have a new swim suit until he outgrows his present one. At such time, we explained, he can be given a suit 'appropriate for girls' (i.e., a purple and green unisex wet-suit).

Today we bought girl's clothes for Dylan, as promised. He wore his girl's clothes while shopping for Wellington boots. All afternoon Dylan passed for a girl. Quite naturally the shop assistant fetched girl's Wellies for him. Even though Mummy explained that we wanted boy's shoes, the assistant continued to refer to Dylan as a 'she'. The assistant assumed that Dylan was a girl wearing boy's shoes that were intended to become hand-me-downs for Isaac, who was of course wearing his boy's clothes as usual.

Later Dylan asked to wear his girl's clothes to Clown Town, where older children often play, but we persuaded him to wear his Spiderman outfit instead. At Clown Town we met Damien.