I always told myself that I would be a good sport about someone calling Eliza a boy - especially after she wasn't born with much hair. I know it was much easier to tell that she was a girl when she was younger and let me put headbands and bows in hair. But here we are at almost 15 months and she still doesn't have much hair and she doesn't let me put bows in her hair very often before discovering them and pulling them out. So I have to rely on her outfits now to give away that she is in fact a GIRL and not a boy. I think I usually do pretty well at dressing her "girly" (I like pink so she does wear it quite often). Fast forward to today though when she was wearing the above outfit along with some cute white sandals and within a half hour - I had THREE people comment on the cute BOY that I have. Um - her shirt has pink butterflies and yellow flowers on it? I thought that would give it away. Or the days that she is wearing a PINK skirt and coordinating shirt and I still get comments on my boy? I had a good laugh over it though with a fellow mom in Target who had a 2 year old boy with really pretty curly hair and heard someone commenting on him being a girl. So I'm sure I'm not the only one who deals with this problem!
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I have had people call Alyssa a boy even since I had her EARS PIERCED! I think some people just don't think, either that or they are just plain stupid. I think she looks adorable and very much like a girl. Love you guys and can't wait to see you.
Its good you can laugh. That is the best way to handle it. Good too that you try your best to shout it out that she is a girl. My kids have had so much hair that it was obvious --Ashilin's was long and my boys were cut like boys haircuts. I am usually the one with the foot in the mouth. Just tonight I was talking to a lady in my ward that I don't know well and I asked her if her goldfish crackers were for her grandkids (she and her husband really, really do look like grandparents) and it turns out they are for her son, she has one 12 year old son. In my defense I think she is old enough to be a grandma and she told me (to make me feel better) that she gets mistaken for her sons grandma a lot. I am obviously still trying to live it down. Its one of those things that will still make my face turn red in a year or so when I think of it.
I have decided that some people are just idiots when it comes to distinguishing gender. I would have bows in Annie's hair when it was shorter and she was in pink from head to toe and someone would refer to her as a he and I would be so bugged!!!! Don't you worry...Eliza looks ALL girl and it gets much easier as the hair comes in :) PS...her outfit looks like a "girl outfit" :)
That happened to me all the time with Kenny before I cut his hair. Okay, if I had a girl with hair like his, there would be bows and pigtails in it. Also, I would not dress a girl in boy clothes.
What I have realized is that if people aren't sure if your child is a boy or girl I think for the most part they say oh "he's" so cute. That way they might think the mom is saying wait a minute did they just call my She a he or they might think we just didn't hear the S part. If that makes any sense. I swear even with my girls all dressed with bows in their hair and bracelets and all colorful people still say oh what cute boys you have. Ellie looks like a girl and her shirt for sure give it away too. Maybe people should start asking the mom's what their childs name is and that way they will know if it's a boy or a girl.
All I have to say is Ellie's sweet face SCREAMS girl!
I have never thought she looks like a boy. Some people are just dumb that way. When Victoria was little, we had her dressed up like a lady bug for Halloween. I had a guy come up to me and tell me she was a cute little boy. She did have a hat on (her antenna's) but who in their right mind would dress their little boy up like a LADY bug? Likewise, who would dress a little boy in PINK? Some people are just clueless.
To me, she is so feminine and beautiful- it's very obvious she's a girl. But for people who aren't used to babies (having one or being around them a lot) a cute baby is a cute baby. And Ellie is a CUTE baby. When strangers stop complimenting you about what a cute baby you have, THEN you can worry :) Just so you know where I'm coming from, I like my girls to have long hair... but to do that, we go through an extremely AWKWARD stage that lasts for quite some time. Most mothers aren't willing to put up with that or some times they just don't know that good hair will turn up in the end. ANYWAY, back to my point, Rory is JUST barely getting over her awkward stage and while she was in it, I couldn't help but notice the lack of compliments that we used to get ALL the time at what a cute baby she was. Kinda sad. But now her hair is starting to look cute again and before long, it will be gorgeous. So the moral of the story is: they wouldn't be commenting if Ellie wasn't just the most super deliciously cute baby that she is.
The no hair is the robins gene!! Lucky for me so far I only have boys and don't have to worry as bad, with that being said that outfit is ALL girl, can you imagine me dressing on of my boys in that?
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