embracing the pink
So based on my last post, I suppose the cat is officially out of the bag. We are having a girl. We, well I, haven't been very secretive about it. If people ask, I tell them, but I haven't gone around announcing it or hadn't written about it here yet.
It was a shock to most people. Although neither of us had a preference, I was convinced it was a boy as were most of my family. It has become apparent that the fact that she is a girl is making our baby prep easier...
We couldn't decide on any boy names that weren't already taken by my ginormous family. Since I was a teen ager, I have had a girl name picked out (and resorted to calling dibs in said ginormous family). Every room in our house is white except for the room we plan to use for the baby room. Conveniently it was already painted lilac when we moved in. No need to paint. My niece, Lucia, will be nine months older than our little one and is already passing clothes on to us.
Now I have never been a "pinky" girl--blue and green were always my favorite colors. Not that I don't love clothes and have my fair share of shoes and handbags, but as a kid I liked sports and was envious of my neighbor's Hot Wheels parking garage. Since finding out, though, I have begun to embrace the pink. I have even created some very pink pages (but am having scanning issues so can't post them yet).
Speaking of scrapbooking and genders... The way scrapbooking deals with boy and girl products bugs me. When it comes to girls, it's all about cute, princess, beauty, sweet, angel, perfect. And when it comes to boys, it's all about dirty, stinky, fast, clever, mischievous. I can see how it would be very easy to fall into those gender traps.
One of my many hopes for our little girl is that she is quite happy to jump in a massive puddle while wearing a dress. That she doesn't scream if a spider is crawling on one of her favorite dolls. That she isn't afraid to be aggressive on the soccer field but then is quite happy to come home and do crafts with me. That she likes math and small cute furry animals.
Isn't it possible to be both sweet and mischievous? Cute and clever?
I am not naive. I know there are fundamental differences between boys and girls. I just hope I don't promote what I see to be some of the negative stereotypes and pigeon hole her into pinkdom.
OK, time will tell...
It was a shock to most people. Although neither of us had a preference, I was convinced it was a boy as were most of my family. It has become apparent that the fact that she is a girl is making our baby prep easier...
We couldn't decide on any boy names that weren't already taken by my ginormous family. Since I was a teen ager, I have had a girl name picked out (and resorted to calling dibs in said ginormous family). Every room in our house is white except for the room we plan to use for the baby room. Conveniently it was already painted lilac when we moved in. No need to paint. My niece, Lucia, will be nine months older than our little one and is already passing clothes on to us.
Now I have never been a "pinky" girl--blue and green were always my favorite colors. Not that I don't love clothes and have my fair share of shoes and handbags, but as a kid I liked sports and was envious of my neighbor's Hot Wheels parking garage. Since finding out, though, I have begun to embrace the pink. I have even created some very pink pages (but am having scanning issues so can't post them yet).
Speaking of scrapbooking and genders... The way scrapbooking deals with boy and girl products bugs me. When it comes to girls, it's all about cute, princess, beauty, sweet, angel, perfect. And when it comes to boys, it's all about dirty, stinky, fast, clever, mischievous. I can see how it would be very easy to fall into those gender traps.
One of my many hopes for our little girl is that she is quite happy to jump in a massive puddle while wearing a dress. That she doesn't scream if a spider is crawling on one of her favorite dolls. That she isn't afraid to be aggressive on the soccer field but then is quite happy to come home and do crafts with me. That she likes math and small cute furry animals.
Isn't it possible to be both sweet and mischievous? Cute and clever?
I am not naive. I know there are fundamental differences between boys and girls. I just hope I don't promote what I see to be some of the negative stereotypes and pigeon hole her into pinkdom.
OK, time will tell...
posted by Christina at 2:18 pm
5 Comments:
Congratulations Christina. Hope all is going well for you.
Congratulations on a little girl!
I agree with your comments about the gender-pigeonholing that goes on. My little boy is equally cute, sweet and beautiful as my little girl. I do find it frustrating that so much of the industry is aimed at "girly" colours/themes etc... one of the reasons I'm reluctant to subscribe to kits. I am venturing into the pinkness of girly scrapbooking but suspect once she's older and her personality emerges the amount of pink will diminish!
Congratulations Christina, I agree with you all about all the girls colours that are out there and not just in scrapbooking. I went into Pumpikin Patch the other day and was influxed by pink, pink. There was actually some blue stuff with pink on it which was good to see. I love seeing my 3 year old neice, chasing after her brother jumping in puddles muddy ones too and out there catching insects and wanting to garden with grandad and be rough and tumble with her big cousins. But she can also be the most gorgious little girl. She was my flower girl and looked devine.
I love your blog!! congrats,
isabel.:)
please...update your blog???
isabel
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