Now he knows.

When I first met Aaron, he had two types of outfits. Jeans and t-shirts for every day wear, and jeans and short sleeved polo shirts for work. Over time, his wardrobe has slowly been revamped. Nothing overly crazy, but he does own a few pairs of 'fancy' jeans, and some nicer shoes, he even layers a long sleeved button down shirt (unbuttoned) over a t-shirt now and again. Not often, but maybe twice a year.

He was told that he would need to wear a short sleeved button down shirt for his surgery since he would be in a sling and a button down was the easiest to put on. So, not owning any shirts of that nature, we went off to Kohl's to buy some. The entire time we were in there he was muttering things like, "I feel so gay. I hate short sleeve button down shirts. This sucks."

We found some not-so-offensive shirts and he tried them on. You could actually see his face change from thinking this sucks this is so gay this looks awful to hmmmm i like this color this shirt feels nice i LIKE this shirt. And we ended up buying a bunch. We even bought a hawaiian shirt, which he swore up and down he would never ever wear in his whole entire life. But the shirt was so soft and comfy, as we were in the checkout line he sent me back to go see if they had any more of the hawaiian shirts, in different colors. (No luck).

So, he's all excited about his button down shirts. He loves them. We were watching Scrubs the other night, and in one scene, Elliot and Cox's ex-wife are complementing the outfit Elliot's date was wearing. And what was he wearing? A short sleeve, button down shirt with khakis. Khakis!! Aaron had only ever worn them with shorts, up to this point.

So as we're watching the scene, Aaron says quietly, thoughtfully, reverentially, "I like that. I can wear my button downs with khakis."

And then there's a pause, he nods, and he says, almost to himself, "Now I know."