For this week's Baby Blogging, SteelyKid couldn't decide whether to show off her ability to grab Appa or her ability to touch her toes, so she tried to do both at once:
The color scheme of this outfit is undoubtedly going to lead to some irritating interactions with people in malls ("Why is her outfit blue, if she's a girl?" "Her outfit is actually pink. It just appears blue after the light falls into the immense gravity well created by your stupidity."), but it goes too well with the dinosaur theme of her nursery to pass it up.
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Dressing boys in pink garners even more comments; it's like I dressed him in acid. He looked good in pink. And if you dress your kids in hand-me-downs, then an open mind helps.
I was deeply disappointed to discover my girl looked quite good in pink.
"It just appears blue after the light falls into the immense gravity well created by your stupidity."
is about the funniest thing I've read all week.
I read that the colors used to be the other way around, and switched sometime around the second world war.
"the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl."
--Ladies Home Journal, June 1918
Those people back in 1918 must have been mistaken about how they felt, though, because some evolutionary biology people are now saying how pink for girls is in our DNA. Because of the cavemen and how they lived, of course!
Someone actually said that to us.
Even better, she was wearing a _brown_ onesie, though she was in her car seat, which is silver with blue-green accents.
And whenever she's not dressed in all pink (she does have some, gifts), people assume she is a boy. Without fail.
But more importantly, SteelyKid needed this outfit because it's Dinosaur vs. Stupid Gender Expectations! Dinosaur wins!!
Dinosaur ALWAYS wins.
My mom always used to dress me in pink as a baby. Continue to fight the power!
Keiran, now 4 mo, is having a lot of fun with his toes, also.
I had been warned, but had not believed, that I would receive tirades from random Parisians for not having him wear a hat (on a 60F day). Both Jenny and I had more than one person stop us and deliver harangues. My favourite was the lady who clearly believed quite seriously that the cold would damage gelatine in his head.
Topic? Oh, right. We get the opposite gender assumption, I think because people hear 'Keira' or some such as the name. The vast majority of his clothes are yellow or green for exactly such avoidance-of-colour-oppression reasons :).