Jami, Duckies and Bunnies

Oh how I love dressing a baby. Eddie always wore complete outfits, and Finn soon will follow in those footsteps. I'm a big fan of the "little man" style of baby/toddler clothes, with little ties and vests. Not that I don't love little fuzzy sleepers and the adorable little footie-PJs, those are great too. I noticed the other day that several of the different brands of diapers we were given have licensed characters on them - Blue's Clues, Sesame Street, and Mickey Mouse. Why? Most people aren't going to see the diapers, you know, being under the clothes. These diapers are for newborns remember, infants up to 14 pounds, I think the upper limit is. No matter how advanced your child is, at 14 pounds, they are not going to be "into" anything. No show has captured their attention. No favorite characters are required to cajole them into letting you put their diapers on. Similarly, I wonder why so much baby stuff has ducks, bunnies and various baby animals on it. Do babies like ducks in particular? I can't imagine that they do. Ducks especially aren't cuddly or sweet. They don't make a soothing noise. What is up with that? Baby animals - maybe because it's a baby? Who decided that these particular things go with babies? Oh - babies love bunnies - except that they don't know a bunny from their elbow. Griffin has no idea that anything he's not looking at even exists, I don't think that he has a strong preference for ducks over, say, porcupines or armadillos. Know why? He's a baby. I think we should be designing baby clothes to appeal to the parents' tastes, not the baby's supposed favorites. Sure, we have some Steeler and Pittsburgh Penguin baby stuff, but where's the Big Bang Theory bib or Star Wars onesies (okay, there probably are SW onesies)? And don't even get me started on why they think babies love pastels.