For those with a pink caboose..

 How long (if you are anything like me) did it take for you to dress them in things not gender specific? I have started putting way more blue/teals on her now, but I remember in the beginning and this is really ridiculous..that she was about 3w old and I was at a friends house and she loaned blue mittens..I put them on her just fine..When I got home though, I only had a gender neutral outfit available and kept the blue mittens on and swore right then she was going to turn into a boy. I have of course gotten over that..LOL

How long did it take you to 'get over it'?

 Hmm..I've never  been "in it" to get out. I would put her in dresses and stuff, of course, but I always found pants and a onsie easier to take care of. I hated the idea of her twisting around in her dress and it immobilizing her (she was a mover...) and she always got so mad if she was wearing a dress and she was slipping all over and getting caught up in it.

I still add pants to her dresses, and lots of times a long sleeve shirt if the "dress" was more jean like (it's winter now).

 Here's some classic examples

 Sooo cute! I guess  I meant not worrying so much about boy colors..lol. I do as you do with the clothes but it took me a while to realize I wasnt going to jinx it by putting blue on her anymore...lol

FiveHappyChildren:

 Sooo cute! I guess  I meant not worrying so much about boy colors..lol. I do as you do with the clothes but it took me a while to realize I wasnt going to jinx it by putting blue on her anymore...lol

I know, as I said I had her in gender neutral from the beginning. I try to stick to cute shirts with her jeans, but those shirts will range from blue to green to red, etc. I guess I just never really thought about it?

I dress her more girly now, actually- as shown in the photos with the dresses and long sleeves and stuff... I'll still put neutral colors on her, but I try to dress her cute when I can because it semi covers up her horns.

LOL- I know the feeling!  She had one teal (with pink flowers) newborn sleeper that I put on her kind of reluctantly.  I've only ever bought 1 blue thing for her, it was a really cute sundress that was blue with red cherries on it.  She started wearing that around 6 months.  I got her ears pierced at 5.5 months, and that has helped her look like a girl regardless of what she wears.

 Duh...LOL I see.

I am so opposite and rarely do the neutral! LOL She has WAY too much pink, like seriously. I wish we had more purples, but we got lots of blue/teals/yellows that I am dressing her more in. She STILL gets called a boy.

D_J_M_:

She had one teal (with pink flowers) newborn sleeper that I put on her kind of reluctantly

I had the same sleeper!! I felt the same way about it..lol

Still debating the ear piercing before Christmas...Haven't made up my mind.

At five months I am still dressing her in pretty obvious girl clothes. I do have some blue outfits for her, but the are very girly (dresses, or outfits with flowers). My husband loves her in blue. It's his favorite color and it brings out her blue eyes. I have dressed her in a couple of our favorite outfits from the boys, mostly as a special connection for them to have with her. They like seeing her in their clothes and looking at photos of themselves in the same outfit. I know what you mean about feeling like she'll turn into a boy though. When I dress her in one of the boys' outfits I feel like I've gone into a time warp and I'm back holding one of them as a baby! My babies have all looked so much alike that it is kind of eerie.

The one really gender neutral thing I got for her was a pumpkin sleeper that she wore around Halloween. Everyone thought she was a boy when she wore it. I don't care. It was really cute on her!

When it became apparent that dd was going to keep her blue eyes, I started getting a lot of greens, blues, and purples for her to wear. It didn't take too long to get over it b/c I am not a pink person, but I have to admit to liking pink a little more than I used to.

lol I remember being in the hospital and the baby hats are white with a pink or blue string at the top... Well Kayla lost her pink one so they brought me a blue one! I wouldn't put it on her! lol.

It bugs the crap out of me that Kayla looks good in blue. I've spent so long trying to get away from it but she's only had 2 dresses that were blue and she wore a sleeper one time that all three of my kids have worn. It's gender neutral but she looked like a boy in it.

She prolly won't dress like a boy EVER!!! lol I'm way too girly.

 My dd is 2 and I am still refusing to buy navy blue. I usually pick pink or purple alot. She has had the odd light blue or aqua think, but if she does it is super girly and not remotely masculine looking. 

I even had the cake decorator take out the blue sky, the brown path and half the grass in my dd's birthday cake because i thought it made her cake too neutral and did not think it was girly enough. And instead i asked them to add extra pink.

Well, I don't have a pink caboose anymore, but I dressed her in mostly girly colors up until she was about 3. I did have one really cute navy blue sailor dress when she was around a year old, but that's about it. Even now, when she wears blues and greens, they have an obvious girly print or ruffles or something. Not so much my doing, but that is what she likes!

 Thanks everyone for sharing. I am glad I am not the only one!! Just for fun..

DD in her Neutral BLUE pj's.

FiveHappyChildren:

 Thanks everyone for sharing. I am glad I am not the only one!! Just for fun..

DD in her Neutral BLUE pj's.

 

 

OMG!  We have the same crib AND the same sesame street sheets!!  I looked at the picture and thought... who's that baby in my crib, lol.  

umm, DD will be ONE next week and she still wears pink or purple everyday.  not so much dresses because she doesnt care much for them, but yep, at least a pink shirt.  pink & brown together.