In which I bore you with... baby clothing!

[oloriel]

Today I looked through the baby stuff we've so far been gifted and stuffed everything up to size 68 into the laundry and the rest back into the boxes. Mostly because I thought an overview of what we already have and what we'll still have to buy/wish would be useful. I suppose it was - clothing-wise, we already have everything that can be found on those handy "basic equipment for your baby" lists, and then some - which is certainly good to know. There's even a little snowsuit! A bit larger (if you go by standard size) than will likely be needed next winter, but better than too small, eh? So the only things we'll still have to buy are diapers. (Bad enough, I expect!)

It was also amusing to see the vast differences in baby clothing. For instance, I got all my (and my brother's) old things from my mom, which (aside from a few frottee rompers) is mostly hand-knitted or crocheted by loving aunts and grand-mothers (some of them no longer alive). I recognised a lot of it - not from wearing it (or seeing my brother, who was born one and a half years after me, wear it) but because later we used it to dress our dolls (yes, my brother played with dolls too)...
The things we got from Jörg's best man's side, on the other hand, is all name brand clothing because (and I quote) "I wanted to dress them so they looked cute". (Personally I would think that babies are sort of cute by nature, whether they are wearing 80s no-name rompers or Baby Gap, but what do I know...) Eh well, means that I won't have to buy expensive stuff. (On the other hand, I may end up looking like the sort of mother who buys expensive Baby Gap sort of stuff... :p)

What I found annoying is that many things have stupid messages on them, probably meant to look "cute" - but, much like Engrish, really just look stupid, even if they're grammatically more sound than Engrish. I mean, Graffiti is fun! We are the little graffiti artists.? Why do you put that on a baby romper? Or South-East Australia. Mein Freund Robbie. ... WHUT?! I mean, WHY?

Eh well. Can't change it :p But still, WHY?

And of course, half the time I had "OMG KAWAIIIIIII" attacks after looking at teeny tiny socks and shirts. So... tiny!

Also assembled the dresser/changing table (hence the laundry orgy - now I have someplace to put the things!). Jörg finds it a bit uncanny to have these things standing around now. On the other hand I can still move around and put IKEA things together now - in a month (or more) I'll probably be less, um, nimble. And if we have the furniture assembled already, any potential pollutants can evaporate now rather than when the baby inhales them. So there.

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Comments

[tuxedo-elf.livejournal.com]

Oh, I completely agree with you about the stuff with slogans, I hate it. Especially the more obnoxious ones like 'little but loud' and 'boob man'. I mean really, ugh.

LOL people keep saying to me 'you don't need to buy any baby clothes!' Need? I guess not. But will I? Oh hell yes. LOL. I am *definitely* getting these: http://www.pumpkinpatch.co.uk/flatshot/S0BU20003/col/WHITE :D

You're lucky, we never had room for a changing table. I'm not even sure where I'm going to put this baby's clothes yet! :P

Edit: Wow, bizzare. In the shop those were in the unisex section, the website lists them as girls. O.o. Eh, whatever, boy will still look cute in em. lol.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Heh heh. I'm sure I'll be buying some NEW baby clothes, too. But it's good to know that I don't have to search for anything specific and that I can just buy things that really jump at me! ^^

At the moment the dressing table is standing in our bedroom - we'll see whether or not we get an actual nursery finished on time. (Probably not. At the moment I'm still ok with exhausting things like wall plaster, but that'll probably not last much longer...)

Pfffff. Don't see what about these dungarees should be specifically girly! Ok, I'm having trouble with gender-specific baby clothing anyway, but those really are unisex *g*

[tuxedo-elf.livejournal.com]

Baby's room is still a spare room... we plan to keep him in our room for the first few months, but that doesn't help with storage, lol.

Yeah... I saw them in store and assumed unisex right away! Therefore, I am still getting them. :D They're CUTE.

[chili-das-schaf.livejournal.com]

Haha, my kids will get the same mix - Cousin #24 and #25 are super styled babies and I already got promised their clothes and equipment for future kidlets. The rest will befleece, frottee, linen and handmade stuff from the families.

[fuchs.livejournal.com]

*excited flail* Do you think we could arrange something so that we can see you while not-very-nimble? :D Babybauchbestauning!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

:D The perks of having a large and fertile family!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

*lach* Wir können uns auch gern vorher schon mal wieder treffen - denn bis es da wirklich was zu bestaunen gibt, braucht es wohl noch ein Weilchen. Mir sind zwar mittlerweile die Hosen zu eng und ich bin schneller aus der Puste als früher, aber insgesamt sieht man noch nicht wirklich deutlich, dass es ein Babybauch ist und kein "Ich hab Weihnachten noch nicht verdaut"-Bauch ;)

[fuchs.livejournal.com]

Tse... hat ein Gesicht aber macht keinen Babybauch... faszinierend. :D

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Keinen eindeutigen. Ich hab schon mehr Bauch als früher... aber der kleine Mann ist doch erst zwanzig cm groß. Die passen noch bequem (naja... mit Anstoßen) in einen kleinen Handball - und der macht zwar schon eine Beule, aber eben keine, bei der man sofort BABY! denkt. In ein paar Wochen ist es sicher besser zu erkennen.