She is NOT a BOY!!!!
We went to the post office to get 2 cent stamps, which let me tell you is not worth standing in line at rush hour for 30 minutes. And all you blogger friends from Medford who know what the downtown post office is like and then added with how finicky I am about not just my own but other peoples hygene, then you know how uncomfortable of a trip this was for me. Anyway, while in line I had a uncomfortably close lady state,
"Oh, HE'S so cute".
Well, I let it slide thinking that there was no need to make her and myself uncomfortable but then when she added,
"He's such a good little boy!",
I quickly snapped (a little bit to my amazement)
"SHE'S a Girl!"
Then the nice (but too close) lady went into a story about how her grandson was always mistaken for a girl. And then after reasurring her that I wasn't offended and no harm done I quickly got my stamps and was off to Freddies.
I really enjoy Fred Meyer, not for the prices I don't really buy much there, but because it's not busy because of the prices, I can browse without having to maneuver my cart past a bizzilion people. I can just roam up and down every aisle without a person in site ( then think of where I can buy what I want cheaper somewhere else!). Well ,yesterday was a sale day at Freddies so there was a mad rush of like 20 people in the store and I ran into one lady a couple times when she finally said
"Oh isn't HE just so cute".
With the recent incident at the post office still fresh on my mind I kind of chuckled a little when I said,
"She's a girl, her name is Emma".
The woman got a little pink in the face and I said,
"It's Ok, I think it's her outfit!"
Two times in one day is one thing but then that evening just after having a good laugh with Mark and my parents about how Emma was mistaken for a boy earlier that day our waitress walked up to Emma and said
"HI Buddy!"
We all started to laugh leaving both Emma and the Waitress a little confussed.
Am I just blinded by my motherly perspective on my child? Does she look like a boy? She may have short hair and I may not always dress her in pink but I think she's the cutest little GIRL in the world.
4 comments:
That's so funny, Trace! There were lots of times when Blaine was in gender-neutral colors that people either called him a girl or asked what gender he was. I usually laughed but Taylor would get so bugged (later, not in the moment)! I think it's a questioning-my-son's-masculinity-thing!
This is so common it is crazy! It is just one of those things people need to be careful about. You don't just walk up to a lady with a little belly and ask her when she is due! People can be so insensitive.
She looks like a beautiful girl to me!!
When Ethan was a baby, not only did he get mistaken for a girl every day, but people would gush about how pretty he was. Also, I cannot tell you how many times a day at the hospital babies get their gender mixed up. A doctor/visitor/nurse will walk by and say "how is she/he doing?" "he/she is so cute" of course using the wrong descriptive. I wonder too how they can mix it up, but I think a big part of what makes a baby look the way they do to us, is there personality, so when someone just gets a brief glimpse, they aren't able to see that come through. As far as the outfit thing goes though, I think people for sure associate color with gender, which I kind of hate because if I have a girl I want to put her in blue and green!! Anyway, Emma is darling! and so is her mom.
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