This morning, Alex wearing shorts, climbed into the car. I reached over to attach her seatbelt.

"You have poka dots on your legs," Antonio said. "They're called goosebumps. My sister Crystel caught them before. They wash away when you are warm."

It wasn't yet sixty degrees.

"I have a Hannah Montana t-shirt on," Alex answered.

A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do.