How old is he?

To the readers ... No, Emily did not fall off the face of the earth after her baptism. On the contrary! She has been keeping us so busy that finding time to blog has proven to be a most difficult task.

As I write this evening, I have just fed Emily her last meal of the day and put her down. She was of course on her way to being asleep when I put her in her crib and swaddled her up...but now, over the baby monitor I can hear her complaining. Not crying - just complaining. I sighed heavily and started to put my computer down, but Dan said, "No." Afterall, she is five months old and certainly old enough to "cry it out." I, however, do not like to listen to her cry and will either have to go get her and make it better or otherwise turn the monitor off.

Okay...the complaining is over and now it is crying. This will only take a moment.

Okay, I am back. Every time I "rescue" Emily, I always tell her, "One day, you'll cry and nobody will come save you..." Of course, I have no idea when that day will come because I certainly haven't been capable of it yet!

But, I digress.

Those of you who know me know that I am not a pink kind of girl. I did not want a bunch of pink for my daughter. However, I have learned a very important lesson. If Emily is not dressed in appropriately "girly" clothes, then she does not necessarily look like a girl. She looks like a baby and people ask "How old is he?"

So, to combat this, I dress Emily up in girl clothes. Occasionally, her father will put something on her that is very "boy-ish" like an NC State onesie and clearly girls cannot be NC State fans. But many times I put Emily in something pink-ish so that people will not mistake her for a boy.

Tonight, Dan and I went out for dinner and the woman at the table beside ours asked, "How old is he?" Normally, I do not get too terribly annoyed at this question especially if Emily is dressed in something gender neutral - yellow, red, green... But tonight, she had on a coral colored onesie with various color flowers and cream pants with matching flowers. To top it off, said articles of clothing were embellished with sequins. Now, I don't know about you, but last time I looked through the boys section of clothes at Baby's R Us I did not see anything with sequins.

I politely said to the woman, "SHE is five months old."