Well, most of you that have seen Liv, probably haven't seen her without some sort of bow or flower in her hair. There are two reasons for that...1), I love bows on girls (the bigger the better in my opinion) and 2) everyone, and I mean EVERYONE where ever I go thinks she is a boy. I do realize it is because she doesn't have any hair, but I could have her dressed head to toe in pink (which I rarely do, but maybe I should?) with a pink blanket surrounding her and still they call her a "him" or "he". I really don't mind too much, I just laugh inside and think there are some non-observant people in this world, but that's okay with me. It happened again today but it was my own fault...I needed to run to the grocery store, I hadn't showered, didn't put a bow of any kind on her, and she was in chocolate & white sitting in her all black carrier. I put her in one of those smaller shopping carts, I don't really know why, I just didn't need a lot of items and thought it would be easier to push that around instead of the huge cart. That meant I had to put her sideways and as I began pushing, I realized it didn't seem steady so I needed to hold onto her the whole time, which was awkward to begin with while pushing the cart with one hand. I never see anyone I know at the grocery store, but today I did. It was a teacher from one of my schools over 45 minutes away, I hadn't seen her since before I had Liv and remember I hadn't showered and had run today so I was looking quite nice as you can imagine ;). I had my back facing her and I hear "Is this your new baby?" I turned around and realized it was her (she was one of my favorite teachers at this school). She looked at Liv and said "Oh, um, is it.....a..." and to save her the embarrassment I quickly said "It's a girl, I know she looks like a boy, I don't have a bow on her today" Poor Liv, remember, bows from now on....;)
We love her 'hairless' and all!
I know! I had a green toile car seat for Abbey and she wouldn't leave ANYTHING on her head, so we got that a few times. Luckily, she had a lot of hair when she was a baby. Madison on the other hand, is pretty bald, but she leaves headbands and hats on!
ReplyDeleteYou know what bothers me? It seems like NOBODY can leave their names alone! If I tell them her name is Abigail, they say "Oh, is it Abbey?" and if I say "Abbey", they say "Is it really Abigail?" so I never know which to say! I have learned to say "Abigail" for older women and "Abbey" for younger ones. Everyone also immediately wants to shorten Madison to "Maddie". Why do they do that? Why can't they just say "Oh, what a beautiful name!" and move on? We don't ever call her Maddie. We probably will someday, but I would like to enjoy her full name, at least for a little while! People wanted to shorten it, even before she was born.
Anyway, Liv is just precious! I'm so glad you have started a blog for her! If you keep it up, you can make it into a book someday! I have my blog printed into a book every year!
This story cracks me up! I have run into the same thing with both my girls but much more and much longer with my little baldie! : ) She's one now and still mostly bald! We're hoping for her hair to grown in before her senior pics! ha : )
ReplyDeletehey girl!! steph posted a link to your blog on hers so i thought i'd 'stop' by. liv is gorgeous!! can't wait to get to actually see her in person! hope you and your precious family are doing great!!
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