Clothes Pony
I am now 8 weeks, 4 days pregnant.
Is this wrong?
The rule we've made is that, at least until we find out whether we need to be buying pink or blue, we'll only buy things that are on sale. And really, really, really cute.
Most of these actually came from a yard sale last summer, for $0.25 each.
We bought a few things on clearance today. One very girly thing, and a couple that we claim are neutral but, then again, have you seen how we dress?
Also a Christmas hat, and bibs for Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day and Easter. For less than $30, and they are all returnable if they turn out to be the wrong color.
wrong color??? you're not going to do all that gender-specific stuff are you? make little girls wear pink? noooooooooo! :)
ReplyDeleteLol - Don't worry, we're absolutely NOT going to make our little girl wear pink.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I don't know that we ought to make our son wear either of the two pink things that we've bought, either!
(The hat that a posted a while back, and a cute little jumper with penguins on it, bought yesterday.)
It's funny, actually - most people go on about how cute baby girl clothes are and how "boring" the boy clothes are, but everytime we go shopping, we gravitate toward the boy things, and we hate the girl clothes.
We've found that we both have a "gut" feeling that Peeper is a boy, but maybe it's just that we kind of hope so, because we prefer those clothes!
I've said, "I suppose our daughter can shop in the boys department - like we do!"
Yesterday, as we were on our way home from shopping, I started to say that it was funny that, as much as we generally hate the girl stuff, the only really "gendered" outfits we've bought are girly.
(Maybe because we we have found something girly that we actually like, we've jumped on it.)
Then I realized that, no, all those things that we're thinking of as "neutral" (because, "I'd wear that, if it were for a grown-up") are actually boy clothes!
Okay, you know, because I admitted this to you yesterday, that I LOVE girly little girl clothes but there definitely are some cute boy things...I just got tired of everything having a sports ball or truck on it. My inner girly-girl got to come out when I had JuJu. :-)
ReplyDeleteSo...at what store(s) did you find your new stuff?
I love the crib. Very cool that it can convert so much. Sorry about the other stuff not fitting downstairs. That stinks.
I am not the anonymous who responded earlier. I am the anonymous that you absolutely must listen to because, as everyone knows, "mother knows best". I have never been a girly-girl dresser, but found that some of the girly clothes were too cute for words. Not lots of uncomfortable ruffles, etc., but pink was cute. Bythe time the kiddo is a few years old, s/he will indicate preferences. Thats where my younger daughter gave up extremely girly stuff. I helps now that pants are OK for nearly everthing. Boy clothes are fun, too. And when shopping for kids, comfort should be a top priority. Watch out on girl's stuff that itis not so fancy that is miserable to wear.
ReplyDeleteOn buying much ahead, watch out that the kid is the right size at the right season. Also, how chubby is s/he? I caught a sale when your sister was a baby and bought a bunch of winter overalls and tee shirts for a song. However, when cold weather came 6 months later, she was toilet trained and the overalls with diaper room did not fit at all and she needed pants to easily pull down, not overalls. Never wore them.
I love baby clothes! Will try to not go nuts with them.
LiPA - It was nice running into you yesterday! The clothes we bought were at the Carters outlet, mostly winter/seasonal stuff on clearance.
ReplyDeleteI agree about the sports and transportation - although Shrike seems to be a fan of the earthmoving machinery, and especially the aviation-themed things.
We do really like the dinosaurs and puppy dogs, though, which seem to be very popular on boy's clothes.
(Shrike will buy him anything with a dog on it, I'm pretty sure.)
One thing that annnoyed me yesterday, though, is that evidently a boy is not allowed to like tools unless he has a father.
Every outfit we saw that featured tools or things of that sort said something like "Daddy's Little Helper."
Oh the other hand, as Shrike said, "Well, if he's waiting for us to show him how to use them, he's in trouble!" so maybe they're onto something . . . .
Anonymama - You know, I didn't think that comment sounded like you, mostly because I figured you'd know better than to think we'd insist on a girl wearing pink!
Shrike is not a fan of pink, but I'm ok with it, as long as it's, as you said, comfortable and functional.
I'm thinking of some of the stuff LK's Kiddo#2 wore - OskKock overalls with pink trim, for example. No doubt she was a girl, but not a girlY.
Lace and frills, though? Not so much.
(Although, we did see a little onsie yesterday that involved a butt-ruffle and it was awful cute.)
Of course, we figure that, with our luck, we'll end up with a very girly-girl!
Good point about the seasons/sizes.
With a late November due date, and living where we do, I feel pretty comfortable with winter clothes for a while, but we're mostly getting newborn and 3 month stuff.
We did pass on a couple of cute gender-neutralish Easter things, because we didn't want to guess what size we'll be needed at that point.
Oh, and don't try to hard to stop yourself from going nuts on the clothes ;-)
Hmm, that should be OsHKosH.
ReplyDeleteI really do know how to spell and type, B'Gosk!
How funny would it be though if your kid had a onesie that said "Daddy's Little Helper." ROFL
ReplyDeleteIt would certainly confuse people.
True, LiPA - Although, in our neck of the woods, I think "I Love My Mommies" will cause a lot more confusion!
ReplyDeleteActually, I'm partial to "I was hatched by two chicks" and "One of my moms is blogging this."