She can’t even wear those for a few months yet, honestly.
If you’ve been watching the dates on the last two strip’s time progression, you may have come to the realization that I’m doing a Christmas story. In the middle of Spring. Possibly going into early Summer even.
No regrets. 😀
I had fun breaking Sai Fen's spine.
Christmas in April/May never hurt anyone.
Ah, I see that they’ve settled on a name for the baby.
yeah, that’s been her name ever since they first started talking about her, back when Selkie got sick from Truck and they went to Dr. P’s house for the history lesson…
At that time, it was “Still deciding … But leaning strongly towards Tai Li”, so I wasn’t sure how certain it was.
Heheh…the real fun is if the little girl hates lacy stuff. I certainly did, to my preferring-girly-stuff mom discovered. 😀
*as, not to.
I was the same way, though I didn’t have the most control over it as a kid. Wore what my mom told me to and I dreaded clothes shopping with her. Then in teens I had a phase where I had to wear girly things because otherwise I believed I wasn’t a girl. Which is a toxic thought by itself….
I’d go on, but honestly I rather not start an argument.
Every holiday picture of me ever has a tear stained face from being forced into a dress. My mom even decreed at one point in would be getting a perm so in would look and act more feminine. That time i packed a backpack with books and lunch and waited her out 30 feet up in a tree all afternoon. Unbelievable.
Sorry you had a wretched time too. My stupid parents also told me they were afraid I would grow up liking women to force me to act more “appropriate”, managing to tie fears of being a lesbian straight into my OCD. Despite being straight and never having an interest in women. Took too long to find a friend who was a happily married straight woman who was just as “tomboy” as me and learn hounding have to be uber gender stereotype feminine to have a healthy relationship with a man….God I still hate the carp they pulled.
Rant over…
And my autocorrect destroyed my prior comment…
It sounds like your Mom had serious issues. I’m sorry for you.
Indeed. My mom kept buying me these awful itch dresses with stupid lacy collars that were tight against my throat. Then she kept buying onesies that looked the same for my daughter which I promptly donated. Mom was mystified I didn’t have to fight my child to get her dressed every morning. XD
A high school friend just started doing the same for her toddler daughter. Like my mom, she is a bit of a narcissist and control freak, and I have a feeling her kid’s going to be bumping heads with her a lot (she already comments a lot on how she is “so stubborn” XD ). Odd how some people obsess with dressing their children in “vintage” looks over letting them be comfortable.
Most of the things Sai Fen bought, though, look adorable. 🙂 It is easy to give the impression of “lacey” these days with crimped fabric (you see it a lot with cotton tees for little girls).
There are some kinds of “lace” that don’t itch, but most of them… I mean, dear lords, WHO MAKES DRY-CLEAN-ONLY BABY CLOTHES???
I hated lace as a kid, so I pretty much ignored all that stuff with mine. I also wound up cutting tags out of her clothing when they irritated her, which was double-good because it turns out she has sensory issues; tags and seams can be major problems for her, depending on softness and stuff.
Now I can just throw things at her on the bed and she’ll wear them, usually!
I was fine wearing dresses until a yard teacher told me I couldn’t climb the monkey bars in a dress. And that was the end of that. I think my mother would have liked to strangle her.
I see they have about as much control over birthdays as we do. Me, with a daughter whose birthday is 12/27.
My wife went completely inert on the couch between 12/23 and 12/26 because sharing a birthday with a certain someone else is kind of a drag.
I was supposed to born on Christmas, but I decided to wait until the 28th. I like to say that I’ve been procrastinating ever since 😉 My stepsister was also supposed to be a Christmas baby, but she was 3 days early. Our respective parents were great about keeping our birthdays completely separate from Christmas, so it completely confuses me when I meet people whose birthdays are lumped together with it just because their birthdays are in December…
“It’s great because you get DOUBLE gifts! Here’s a pair of socks — the left sock is your birthday present, and the right sock is your Christmas present.”
I also was a procrastinator…I was twenty days late! They would NEVER allow such a thing to happen today, but they did several stress tests, and I was always fine, so they let me be. Until the last one, when I was showing some signs of being stressed, so they induced me. Turns out, my mom simply does not go into labor on her own (I was their first, so they had no idea). Every one of my sisters also had to be induced, but they never let it go that long again.
If I ever had a kid born on Christmas, I’d make it so that one of their Christmas presents was a “Birthday Party” on a certain date in January. They’d still get cake /candles and maybe a few birthday things on Christmas, but a party day all his/her own would feel appropriate to me.
That said, sharing a birthday isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Two of my siblings share a birthday with our father. Triple cake, triple presents, and triple awesome all in one day! I guess whether you enjoy sharing a birthday or not just depends on your outlook.
Gender coding makes me sad 🙁
Has Amanda been introduced yet to her dad’s side of the family? It would be important for the time of year.
Yea, when they played that dragon board game.
Comment: transcript=. And Pohl’s wallet.
Question… The baby doesn’t appear super formed (no limbs). Are newly hatched Sarnothi larva like amphibians or is this talk of her hatching soon just to get Suko excited (kind of like how parents only halfway through pregnancy say “soon the baby will be born” to older siblings)?
Might also be that we’re not seeing the entire egg — it may’ve gone more oval/cylindrical, so what we’re seeing is a reflective surface covering a baby’s head.
That said, I would not be at all surprised if she hatched into a larval form that swam around for a week or two, eating everything she can get at and growing! (I mean, kittens are born blind, so even mammals have a fast-changing form sometimes.) …it would be kind of amusing if the larval form was omnivorous and devoured both whatever food they put in the tank and the plants in it as well.
Shouldn’t it be “lacy” without the “e?” (My spell check accepts both, alas). The context makes it look like the baby’s name.
My wife wanted to buy Snow White dresses from Disneyworld for her baby who hadn’t even been born yet! I talked her out of it on the theory that the dress was expensive and what if she had a boy? Of course she had a girl just to spite me and never let me forget that she couldn’t put the Snow White dress on her daughter because I wouldn’t let her buy it!
I’m honestly surprised that no one has bashed Sai Fen at all for her choice of buying girly clothes for a baby girl. Where I come from, people would be calling her backwards and brainwashed by ‘the patriarchy’ and oppressive towards her unborn child by forcing a lifestyle choice on her.
I, personally, find all that to be utter nonsense, since a baby can hardly choose their clothes at that age.
Well, this isn’t tumblr…thankfully.
Yes… If she wants to squee, Sai Fen might as well get it out of her system now. Time enough to worry about reinforcing or destroying gender stereotypes once the child is old enough to notice what she’s wearing. A newborn isn’t going to care about lace one way or the other unless it’s uncomfortable.
Operation Lacy Crap…..this is just like my mom. She makes such pronouncements. I always liked my mom for that. Among other things of course, but the humor is always a good thing.
Oy, soon as you enter this world you’re thrown into a prison of cloth
Wait…what IS the baby’s name going to be? I see literally nothing referencing her name here, what am I missing?
I took it as people thinking she should be called “Lacey”, but maybe I’m wrong?
It’s in the tags: Tai Li.
Ooooh okay, I didn’t even notice them. Thanks Dave!
You are observant and wise!
Lace is fine… Just please not all pink. Purple, yellow, green, bloody red and rainbow, so many things that are pretty and not so restrictive. Feminine is not the problem, the problem is for the first 7 months of my baby’s like I couldn’t fund cute lacy crap for my baby that wasn’t pink in some way. Uggg.
Not to mention the fact that most shades of pink probably wouldn’t look real great with Sarnothi skin tones…
“wacey cap.” I about died of cute right there.
I feel kinda bad for some of the folks in the above comments because when I was finally able to dress myself, my mom just let me pick out what I wanted to wear from whatever I had, so I got to choose between dresses or sweat suits for toddlers, though the dresses I can actually remember had frills upon frills. Mom didn’t really worry too much about what I wanted to wear unless we were in a rush or she was making sure I dressed warm. There is a picture of me with a ballet tutu sticking out from a pair of jeans and a sweater somewhere. Low and behold my tastes remain the same, I’m just as comfortable in jeans and tshirts as I am in a dress.
I still have big scars on both legs from wearing tights while I was crwling. 🙁
Uhhhhhhhhh how? Like, I’m genuinely curious. My nice who just turned 1 wore and still wears, tights and leggings all the time and I’ve never noticed any discomfort on her.
We’re they too small or something?
Spring Pop, I obviously didn’t remember details, but my aunts and Grandma said my knees were bleeding several times. 🙁 I still have scars that are 2″ by 2″ from it on both knees.
Sai Fen has adapted to American consumerism culture well… also fashion. Makes me wonder what Sarnothi parents still in Sarnoth would have dressed their new kid up in? Open-side leather tunics, to go by past representations of their narrow “fashion” sense.