Monday, April 13, 2009

Almost taking the fun out of shopping

Sorry it's a little long, but it's a great story!

OK, so let's start with the frilly things story. So Friday was our appointment and Bud and I decided that after we found out, whatever is was, we were going to stop by the store and pick up an outfit with the gift card we had. So when we found out it was a girl, we were so excited and definitely needed to buy a girl outfit, considering that all the stuff we had so far was boy things. We walked into a small Babies R US store and found that they didn't have much to choose from. Their selection for clothes was kind of small, but we found something. Bud made the comment that all these girl clothes were too girly and frilly and he didn't like them at all. Mind you, they were not at all. To me, when I think of something really frilly, I think of like a crazy cute tutu or something. These were all normal girl outfits with all the normal colors and what not. So I made sure to tell him, "look, we're going to be getting a lot of clothes and let me tell you, they will be girly. So there is probably going to be a lot of clothes you won't like, it looks like, but we're not going to have a tomboy for a little girl. It's just not going to happen. Not that we're going to have her in dresses all the time or anything, but just prepare yourself. So the day went on and we continued to be so excited and come Saturday morning, he's pushing me to get up and out of bed so we can go shopping! He says, "Get up, we have to go shopping! Izzy needs clothes! We need to go shopping. Hurry, get out of bed". At this point, I'm feeling like, oh no, this is going to be a long day of him trying to find non girly frilly clothes. I wasn't looking forward to dealing with this, knowing perfectly well what is out there and what is made for little girls. It was almost sucking the fun out of buying the cute girl things. But we went and our first stop was the BIG Babies R US to return all the boy clothes we had and get girl clothes. First thing he saw was the Easter dresses in the front of the store. I saw them too, however didn't say anything because I knew he would have some comment about how extremely girly they were. Because let's face it, they were EASTER DRESSES!!! His comment and reaction to these dresses??? "OH MY GOSH! Look how cute these are!!! We have to get one! I love it, it's so cute!" WHAT??? How do you go from saying you don't like these girly frilly things, to being drawn in to these totally girly and adorable Easter dresses? I was shocked, but so far liking it. We continued to Target, Old Navy, A Childrens Place and Gymboree. At every single one of these stores, this boy was like a little kid in a candy shop with the little girly frilly clothes. I loved it! We had to stop buying things, but continued to look and now all he can do is rant and rave about this cute little yellow summer dress with lady bugs on it and a matching hat with white sandals he wants SO BAD! It was completely flipflopped and I have to tell him to calm down and relax a little. There will be plenty more days to looks at things and MANY more things we will receive. After all, it's the first grandbaby on both sides! Izzy will be spoiled.
So here all some of the clothes we bought, most of which were picked out by Bud.






3 comments:

David and Kendra Nielson said...

So cute! Sounds like it ended up being a lot of fun. My favorite is the black and white outfit.

The Ross Family said...

Adorable. Buying baby clothes is so much fun. Love it!!

Kim Gail said...

Interesting post!! You picked wonderful dresses!! Usually, I prefer to shop at Target for lovely baby clothes!!