Marcie:
Whoever gave you crap once about being a Mommy-blogger should be drug out into the street and shot. It's bunk.
Heh. Well I know both my personality and my life choices irritate some people. I don't especially like irritating people which is why I have often hesitated to write.
But they're not blasting me with microwaves, so that's good
LOL. One of the funniest things I've read today.
It's one thing when it's a baby and you mess up a gender...it's a little understandable...but you'd think with like a second grader you'd be able to get it right.
Hahaha. Well, I've seen little kids that you really couldn't tell. Most of the time little kids and babies have pretty androgynous faces and the hair and clothes clue you in. Some moms chop their little girls' hair off or they grow their little boys' hair out. It's confusing when they're still so little that they have those baby faces.
Right now it's "cool" for little girls to dress in boyish clothes, too.
Izzy has been called a boy 2 times.
The first time she was like 2 or 3 days old and she was wearing red and white striped pants and a Christmas onesie. And she was in her PINK carseat.
The second time I had her in her Red Hot Chili Peppers onesie and black shorts and no hairbow (we were in a hurry). She was in her khaki snugli.
I DO try to give people clues, LOL. But I WON'T pierce my baby's ears.
Don't feel bad, Marcie. Lots of people do it. Haha.
SHE:
Yes... my aunt glued a bow onto my cousin's head. When I say my cousin was bald... I mean bald. This was also a long time ago, when the headband bows weren't around. I don't know what kind of glue, and I don't know how she got it off.
Did you cousin suffer any brain damage? Haha. My mom use karo syrup to stick bows to my bald head. Apparently bald female babies runs in the family.
Izzy has hair, btw, she has a nice, thick medium brown mullet in the back. Haha. You can see it below her ear in the 3rd pic.
Here's a pic of my pretty girl with a pretty bow:
(Adrian thinks her constant bow-wearing is exacerbating her baldness, LOL)
Gid:
When we took Des in for her first Christmas picture, we DROWNED her in pink! Because we got so sick of hearing "Oh, HE'S adorable!"
(That's one of those embarassing stories we're saving for Des when she's a teen, to keep her focused...lol!)
Haha! Most babies don't look particularly boyish or girlish, but when they have a gender-specific outfit and are lost in a sea of blue or pink baby items, it shouldn't be too hard to guess. And when all else fails, just say, "What an adorable BABY!" (Note to Mason, haha, you can always say, "What a HAPPY baby!"
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We follow a lot of the AP philosophies as well. We've kind of come to pick a little of this, and a little of that, for something that fits us. So I know where you're coming from on all of this.
It's cool to know that, Gid. I don't follow every AP principle to the letter, but I think most of it is very solid and very realistic. We breastfeed, co-sleep (a dirty word nowadays), I wear her (she's not a sling fan, though, so I don't wear her as much as I would like), and we have lots of mommy-baby closeness.
Have you read The Successful Child or The Discipline Book? I am working on using those ideas with the boys. Some of it is stuff I've always done, but I feel like I need to read and more and know more and try more things because it is VERY hard to do it all by myself and I want to give my kids the best start I can.
You know, I understand where you're coming from being from a family of educators and all that, but you DO know, you'd make an excellent homeschooling parent, don't you? (laughs evilly).
Haha. If I thought I could do a good job with it, I would probably do it. I just don't have the patience or the smarts to do it.
