• Life

    Easter Egg Hunt for Toddlers

    April 18, 2022 - By 

    At 14 months, Young Sophie does not have the height to reach interesting hiding places. Fortunately, she, too, can participate in egg hunting by picking eggs off of the grass. She surprised us all by picking us her basket and taking it to the eggs. We had thought we would have to carry the basket for her. I bought 2T and 3T outfits when she was a few months old thinking they would be good for growing into. The dress is 2T sized and fits fine now that she can walk. I actually had laid out a white onesie for…

  • Fashion

    Mommy Propaganda Clothes

    December 8, 2021 - By 

    Young Sophie cannot yet read. Were she able to, she would know that she sometimes bears what my husband calls “Mommy Propaganda”. He refers to the common “I love mommy” quotes printed on babies’ bibs, footies, socks, and more. There are many variations of this. (I did not buy any of these clothes. They were all gifted.) “Do you want to wear your Mommy Propaganda shirt?” he asked our grinning infant as she lay on her back, beaming after a diaper change. “Oh, look, it’s your Mommy Propaganda bib!” he would exclaim while grabbing the topmost bib from the clean…

  • Fashion

    Dotted Green Button Footie with Floral Detail from Carter’s

    April 3, 2021 - By 

    Any baby in this lovely spring green footie with bright florals will look like he or she is ready to take a pleasant nap outdoors! Printed at the chest is “lovely” in a fine cursive below a butterfly appliqué. Is the butterfly lovely? Or is it the baby who is lovely? Or is it meant to be a statement about the clothes itself? One does not know. However, floral at the wrists and all the way down to and under the feet might make one fashionable and lovely. In this infant outfit, your baby will be ready to stomp on…

  • Fashion

    Stripy Shark Footie for Newborns from Little Wonders

    April 1, 2021 - By 

    When I first saw this outfit, I thought that it looked very nautical. I also noticed that the feet appeared to be one-horned narwhals! This may be because one of her other outfits had one-horned unicorns. However, the two sharks swimming at the breast of the baby who wears this outfit probably shows that the feet were meant to be sharks. With back fins. I cannot be the only one who sees those narwhals. Anyway, my child cannot appreciate the animal differences amongst her newborn outfits, nearly all of which are of the same basic design and thus strongly resemble…

  • Life

    Misspellings on Clothes: Princess Baby Hat

    March 25, 2021 - By 

    I believe that what you wear says something about who you are. In some cases, what you wearing literally says something. This hat, with its bright rose-gold foil-colored cursive commonly associated with throw pillows, decor about living and loving, and weddings, is not quite my style. Fortunately, thus hat was not gifted to me but to my baby. As you can see, the dot of the “i” is in the wrong place. I do not know whether this is a case of someone not knowing how to write cursive or an accident by a graphic designer. Surprisingly, this hat may…