That boy sure looks good in pink...

So the other day I was in the waiting room at our Dr.'s office with Taya sitting asleep in her car seat next to my feet. She was still wearing her sleeper (7:15 am) which was pink (slightly reddish, but still PINK). The man next to me was trying to make small talk (I am assuming - because otherwise why would he say this?) and he asked ...

"Is that a boy?"

Me: "No she's a girl"

And he said, "Oh, I saw that she was wearing pink, but she looked like a boy."

End of story.

(except when I pulled the sun cover back to show her to him a little more, he commented that she had more hair than what he could see - but still ........)



This reminded me of a story from when Taya was just a couple of months old and I was holding her in the Baby Bjorn carrier facing forward while making a deposit at the bank. While I stood there 3 feet away from the 20-something-year-old teller, he stared at Taya for a minute and asked ...

"Is IT a boy or a girl?"

Guess what. Taya was wearing a mesh headband with a bow smack dab on the front center of her head and staring at him from almost eye level. Believe me, when or if I have a boy, he will not be wearing a bow headband (I'm picky about the few bows, etc. that Taya does wear).

Of course I make fun of these clueless men in these stories, but I've had plenty of times where I just ask about a stranger's baby and find a way to have them refer to it as a he or a she because I feel clueless, but these stories were SO obvious ...