Straight From the Bottle

She looks absolutely gorgeous in both dresses. I love how expressive she is, she is a truly happy fashionable baby! I can't believe how big she is, very lucky, she's going to be a tall one!

Fable wins best dressed for sure!

She is so adorable (and that duck dress is the cutest thing ever)!  Enjoy the dresses now before she starts crawling.  The crawling months tend to be a dresses-free zone since they catch under the baby's knees and make her go bam down on her face.  Now that mine is walking, I'm really enjoying being able to bust out all the cute little summery sundresses again.

I just found this blog! Your children are both beautiful.  I love the headbands that Fable is wearing throughout your blog. Would you be willing to share the brand and place they were purchased?  I would love to get one for my little monkey!

I have always wanted a couple of boys and then later down the line maybe have a girl once I start having babies.  But your Fable makes me want to have a girl every time I read one of your posts!  She is so precious!

the duck dress wins all the prizes. lovely.

Love the ducks. Love love love.

And your seven-month-old could kick my sixteen-month-old's ass any day. (His 9 month jeans keep falling off.)

It sounds a bit shallow, but this is partially why I hope to have a girl eventually. I love my son, but when I found out I was having a boy, I sighed and fingered the cute dresses at Target a bit, I can't lie. I look at it like this: I can hand down a lot of James' more gender neutral stuff to a girl, and that will leave me a lot more of a budget to splurge on a future, hypothetical girl!

Man, Fable is so adorable!  That sailor dress is over the top cute, and I don't even normally like babies!

That's why I'm just a little bummed that baby no. 2 is going to be a boy.  I love dress up!  I'm just going to have to borrow my four month-old niece and have our own little fashion show.  I really want to get an old-school smocked dress for her - how I love smocked dresses!

Fable is adorable.  I love that sailor dress!  

She really is SO CUTE! And I love "the ducks." AWESOME.

You're totally right, she's absolutely Peter Pan in that green dress!

She wears them well!!

I hate to tell you this, but enjoy this phase while it lasts. I have two girls and everyone always says, "Oh, you're so lucky! You get to dress them up and do their hair!" Um, except no you can't. Not past the age of 18 months (which, for DD1 was *just* when she actually got hair.) Go ahead and make/buy dresses to find out she won't wear one anymore. Buy cute jeans and she'll insist she only wants elastic-waist pants b/c it's easier to use the potty. Buy the cutest ones possible and she'll be back into dresses...but only *after* summer/sundress season has passed and now it's winter and she ONLY wants dresses but won't wear tight. So now you have to go hunting for leggings that match all the "approved dresses." Once you get them, she's not only refusing them, but now she refuses everything but the hideous Disney Princess nighties her grandmother bought.

And even though she's got GORGEOUS hair, she'll barely let me comb it and slap a barrette in.

*sigh* See? Total downer, right? My point is...enjoy it while it lasts.

Okay, that duck dress is just too crazy cute and Fable in it? Unstoppable. Was it Flicka? I've had moments of weakness in Flicka shopping for my little lady. Somehow not being able to afford it ceases to matter when I think of how awesome she'll look.

I've heard the same thing that Downer (above) is saying and have been trying to enjoy dressing my babe up while I can. I know a day will come that she'll only want to wear polyester princess costumes so I want to make sure that I've made the most of the time during which I'm in charge of her wardrobe.

JJ Keith - Yes! Flicka! How did you know? Flicka is the only place I shop. I live for the sidewalk sales.

If for some reason you ever have a ginormous cash windfall, I strongly recommend that you hit the children's section of Fred Segal. Dries Van Noten, for wee ones!!

I love her little toes in the sailor dress pics! So cute!!

Oh, she's so freaking adorable!!  I have a boy just a few weeks older than Fable, and he's off-the-charts big too.  It's so cute to see them so big, yet so baby, at the same time.  She's a doll!

Hey, I'm not pregnant and don't have children (YET!) but I'm already dreaming of the dresses I'll be making (don't know how my son (?) would feel about that).

She's adorable, make me smile, and yearn even more for the family to come. xx

I'd enjoy it too.  I love the outfits!

I love the dresses, the duck dress is my favorite!

Don't be too scared of the fickleness - we have some of that, but it's within the clothes that are available to her. I do the shopping, she chooses from what she's got. She's not about to go naked, so you can still get her into cute stuff. It is a shame, though, when they refuse to wear some cute thing for a full season until it no longer fits...

And The Bun is a  big guy, too, wearing his 12 month clothing by 7 months (he's now 8.5). The nice thing about dresses, though, is they can be worn for a longer span, because the fit is less precise, so I often let Pumpkinpie wear hers a size ahead and until the bodice gets too tight and under her arms, but since she's a thin girl, and not too tall, she can often wear a dress for two summers. Then you can get more mileage out of them for when you've gone and spent more than you meant to!

Oh man!  So adorable!  That sailor dress?  Kills with the cute!

You're lucky that she's "up there" in the percentiles.  Imagine how bummed you'd be if she reached that size in November or January.

Man, I'm feeling really lucky right now. I have a 4 year old daughter and she wears whatever I pick out for her everyday. Except for when we are getting "dressed up" for something. She has to be able to pick the dress out. But even then I hold the ones I approve of in my hand, and she picks from those.

Fable is GORGEOUS! Love both the dresses, but the ducks is my favorite.

Yes, one of the BEST parts of having a girl (I don't have any kids but this is a fact) is, "Getting to dress them up!" I can only imagine it being so much fun. There's just so many choices that the fun must be limitless. ;D

I've always loved all thinks pink and pretty, so I was SO excited when I had a little girl - a living, breathing doll - what more could I ask for?! I was especially lucky that she's had tonnes of hair from day 1 - she's been wearing bows and pigtails from the moment I was first able to squish enough hair into tiny elastics. I can't tell you how happy I am, even now that she's a bit older than 2yrs - she LOVES dresses, and has never complained about anything I've dressed her in. I'm sure one day she'll revolt, but for now, I'm soaking it all in :)

Cute dresses, but she really isn't 'the biggest baby of all time.'  She looks like a typical, fat baby to me.  I don't know why so many women get off on having the fattest, biggest baby, makes no sense.  My youngest weighed in at 10lbs 6oz and I didn't scream it from the mountain tops.  Did her doctor ever diagnose why her head is so huge?

I should have known you will only publish the comments saying how gorgeous she is, no surprise there!

Uh... huh?

good lord she's gorgeous! I love the sprite-like expression on her face in the first photo.

I too am guilty as charged when it comes to playing dress ups with my daughter. And I have the same problem with certain items of clothing suddenly fitting a lot sooner than expected. I bought her a new winter jacket recently and had to take it back and exchange it for the next size up, complaining the whole time about the "ill fit" and "crazy sizing system". And then it happened again. And again. Erm, maybe just maybe I have a big baby on my hands.

Hey, all the more roly poly ankles to love!

Oh and Rebecca, you were right. She suits those ducks to a tee.

[psst. I wonder if kcmo's doctor has done any ahh, head diagnosing recently?]

Oh, the green duck dress... She does rock it! I remember the wonderfulness when you posted about it last year, and it made me remember that fun shopping trip on Larchmont last summer, when you brought us to that same shop so I could get my son cool t-shirts! Ah, great trip, I miss LA... I'm so making him wear one tomorrow now.

Love the clothes you put her in and that sailor dress pic, sigh....so adorable.  I too love the girl "stuff" and I dress mine (who is 2) up just for daycare or to go to the grocery store - her outfit has to match, her bows/barrettes match, etc.  I paint her toenails and fingernails and she twirls in front of a mirror when done to see her dress swirl around her.  And she says "Like that mommy, like that!"  LOVE it all!  I have a 7 year-old son also, and clothing for him was/is BORING most of the time!  My little peanut is the opposite on the scale factor - she is 10th percentile, so she can still wear some 12-18 month clothes..which is nice because we get a little more wear from things.  Love your stories and your blog - thanks for sharing your writing gifts!

Does Flicka have a website? Can't seem to find them on a google search.

Oh Rebecca! Does she have red hair? It's funny Acher and Jack looks so much alike, My husband thought Archer was Jack when he glanced up at my computer screen. Collette has the reddest of hair. Neither Garth nor I do, but I've been dying mine to match (don't tell anyone!)

She's so beautiful. Such a sweet family.