When I found out I was having a girl, one of my first thoughts was,
"OH THE CLOTHES!" Not that having a boy doesn't present fun with
fashion but girls have many more options in the clothes and accessories
department. Headbands and barrettes, dresses and tights, a vast
assortment of shoes and most importantly? Dresses. Oh, how I love the dresses.
Days
after I found out I was pregnant with a girl, our Fable, my mother
drove up to LA to take me shopping. Fable would be her first
granddaughter and she was just as excited as I was at the prospect of
dressing her up in all the bells and whistles and bonnets aplenty the
world had to offer.
I greeted my mother at the door
with the dress I had purchased hours after my ultrasound revealing
Fable's sex. It was green and had ducks on it and was completely
overpriced but I didn't care. It was my favorite dress in the store and
I was having a daughter and it just seemed to, I dunno, suit
her. The fact that she was but twenty-two weeks in utero was just a
minor detail. I bought it in 18-24 months which seemed insane. She'll
wear this the summer of 2010, I thought, making fun of myself for being so ridiculous to purchase something two years ahead of schedule.
Little
did I know she would be the biggest baby of all time, able to wear "the
ducks" at seven-months, less than a year from the point of purchase:
(how much does Fable look like a little Peter Pan in this pics?)
That afternoon My mother and I spent the bulk of our day shopping for clothes for our unborn doll. The highlight?...
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