I take Caleb to the park a lot. The last time I brought him in this outfit, many people were confused about his gender. "What a beautiful bo.. gir... uh... BABY you have," they'd say. Who knows. I dress him in it because it's fuzzy and warm, and I love fuzzy warm babies! Do you think it's too girly? (In this pic he's also wearing his puppy/kitty slippers which have rattles in them. He thinks they're interesting and tries to bite them.)
One thing I love about the park is that everyone feeds the ducks and geese even though there are huge signs everywhere warning the public about the dangers of feeding them. Last week, I saw a woman send her two-year-old out in middle of the flock with a ziplock bag of bread crumbs. The birds started chasing him and he dropped the bag and ran, crying. Today, I watched some middle school kids take AN ENTIRE SHEET CAKE and fling pieces of it out to the many seagulls, ducks, and geese that were swarming them. These boys were tough though. If a bird got too close, they'd just kick it.
Another reason I love the park is because I like to see how everyone here thinks the weather is freezing. Today, which was a whopping 52 degrees F, people had their kids dressed in thick SNOWSUITS, complete with tied-under-the-chin hats, mittens, and boots. Yes, boots. One little girl kept pulling her hat off complaining that she was hot, but her mother insisted that she wear it. They must've thought I was crazy wearing a light sweatshirt. Caleb wore the outfit pictured above along with his blue knit Guatemalan hat. He and I were both plenty warm.
Sometimes we walk to the Starbucks across the street from the park to tank ourselves up (me on coffee & Caleb on mommy-milk). Today was awesome though because I went to the counter and ordered a grande mocha. The boy behind the counter said, "Do you want me to heat that to kid's temp for him?" I stood there puzzled for a moment, then realized that he seriously thought I was giving my 4 1/2 month old baby a mocha. I said, "I think he's a little young to be drinking a mocha." The girl who was working with him was laughing so hard. Poor kid.
Kinda hard to tell the colors on my laptop but I'm guessing it's greenish-blue/yellow stripes? What on earth were you thinking dressing your baby boy in anything but blue? And just so you don't make the same mistake twice, if your next baby is a girl you have to dress her in pink.
Blue is for boys. Pink is for girls. I don't even know why they bother with all the other colors - it just confuses people.
His outfit is a bluish-green and yellow stripe. It does have a rocking horse on it and little stars on the zipper pulley thing. But, like I said, he was wearing a royal blue stocking hat. I thought that'd give it away for sure. Hmmm...
In order to really understand what makes this outfit so girly, you have to see the color of the rocker under the rocking horse. It's like some kind of salmon / peach. That's what really puts it over the top.
It does not matter what color you dress him in. People will (on occasion) get his gender wrong. I remember taking Elise out once when she was about the same age dressed ENTIRELY in shades of pink (obvious pink). A woman stopped me in the checkout line at a department store to ask "How old is he?" I just about screamed, "He????????????" So don't worry about it and dress him as you please (within reason : ) ).
Me being a boy and not knowing many things about babies or their clothes I always thought green/yellow was gender neutral. That way people could still buy you gifts even if you didn't know the flavor before he/she hatched. Also, those outfits have replay value since they can be used as hand-me-downs on future version 2.0s, boy or girl. That's one of the 3 R's in action.
Hey at least the guy behind the counter got that it was a boy, I mean that is the true test. The fact that he wanted to give Caleb the mocha, that's a little scary.
I didn't have hair for clips or anything girly until I was 2, so my mom had to buy headbands and dressed me in pink all the time. People still got it wrong...
By the way, his slippers came mismatched, I am not *weird* and I do not mix and match things that shouldn't be mixed and matched. One slipper is a puppy and one is a kitty. They both have rattles in them. Caleb likes to kick his feet then chew on them. They are for the purpose of baby entertainment. :-)