• Zayda said on Jul 23, 2006....

  When my little guy was a baby, people would mistake him for a girl all the time. Perhaps it was because I dressed him in green and yellow frequently instead of lots of blues. I will never forget the day that an elderly woman said "your little girl is so cute" and when I told her that he was a boy. She paused, looked at my little guy, looked at me, then looked back at the little guy and said "Well, he's just too pretty to be a boy." I stood there for a minute thinking, well what the hell does that mean?

• cfamommy said on Jul 23, 2006....

  lol Was she saying that you were [i]wrong[/i] about him being a boy? She was probably just embarassed about being wrong, so she got defensive... I'm glad I'm not the only one with a "pretty boy". I think he's quite handsome, actually.

• Zayda said on Jul 23, 2006....

  Yeah, my little guy could probably be classified as a pretty boy. He's got thick hair that just curls when it gets longer. I almost died when we cut it a couple of weeks ago because he decided that he wanted to be just like daddy--who practically shaves his hair for the summer. So, we took the little guy out on the front porch and literally shaved his head. I must say that even with a shaved head, he's a "pretty boy". My son, at 5 years old, is also already an outrageous flirt. And I can just see I am going to have my hands full in the next few years.

• cfamommy said on Jul 23, 2006....

  Good luck! You'll be beating the girls off with a stick, I'm sure! Mine, at 8 months, picked up a waitress in Ontario. I swear she would have taken him home with her. He goes for short brunettes- I like to think it's because they remind him of me, but maybe he just has the same taste as his daddy... It's pretty funny, anyway!

• JadeLondon said on Jul 25, 2006....

  Although I have occassionally dressed my sons in yellow and green--I tend to dress them in boyish clothes. It doesn't matter. I have (for both children) had people tell me a number of times what a "pretty little girl". But there are worse questions than that: how about when someone asks you when you are due (and you've already had the baby)? I think I may make that a subject for one of my blogs.

• isabel said on Jul 27, 2006....

  cfmommy and jade u're quite young thus u must be quite mature to take that step of having a child when you could be partying and stuff like that. you shouldn't be worried if people think your boys are girls. you must only feel concerned if by the time they turn 6 people still think they are girls.

• JadeLondon said on Jul 27, 2006....

  To isabel: Oh, you flatter me! You are somewhat right about the partying stuff, though. I was something of a late bloomer, so although I was twenty-four before I had my first child--I still feel that I didn't get to sow my wild oats.

• cfamommy said on Jul 27, 2006....

  I don't think I had any wild oats to sow. I've never liked parties, and I [i]am[/i] having fun right now with my husband and my baby. Maybe I'll go nuts when I'm 80.

• isabel said on Jul 27, 2006....

  LOL. We never know.

• Alyss said on Jul 28, 2006....

  For a long time my youngest had very little hair and I found people assumed babe's sex according to what colour I had chosen that day. People make assumptions based on the tiniest amount of informations sometimes.

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