makes my stomach go two forty six

i am at the shop, and the speakers just shorted from water (moderately long and uninteresting story). i have come to rely on hearing music, even when i am alone here. now i feel awkward sitting here by myself.

more thoughts on clothes + babies + my baby.

lately esther margaret has needed to wear more clothes simply out of necessity since the weather's been colder. in addition, i have been feeling some peer pressure from friends, or should i say "friends", who will make fun of me for dressing em in her uniform. mind you, these are also the same people who make fun of me for wearing the same clothes all the time. all of the people who said that i would have the best dressed baby in town are eating their words.

so. it has caused me to think more deeply on the topic and i have some thoughts.

to recap, my kid wears this every day:
i have come to realize that babies, in general, are all sort of androgynous. i don't think less of people who put giant bows or head to toe pink on their girls, it's cute, it's just not my thing. but at the same time, i don't want to put anything on her that makes her look like a boy. ergo, my issue with pants. leggings, karate pants, fleece pants...they all make her look like a male gymnast or this korean deacon i knew growing up in dallas.

so i have avoided pants. lately i have been dressing em in some version of this and thought it was the perfect solution:
but then i started to realize that it's tedious to change her diaper with all of those snaps and then i started to get comments on why my kid is in her pajamas all day long. awesome.

i am a big fan of bundlers, but i tire of hearing jihad references from jeremy.
so i looked at my options. and then made a realization:

oh, you think your kid is wearing a ribbed turtleneck? actually, she's wearing a onesie with some extra fabric around the collar. and ps i'm pretty sure that she stole it out of sally jessie raphael's closet.
this is a white onesie, only dyed pink with rosettes sewn on it.
ditto, minus rosettes, plus screen printing.
pajamas are even more contrived. they're just like daytime clothes but match a little more.

i mean, how would you like it if someone made you wear a matching bunny/winter themed outfit?
my point is that they're all the same. even if i dress claire up as a tiger or marshmallow or a race car driver, she's still a dachshund.