dressing tallulah

One of the cool things about having two girls is being able to reuse all of the adorable things you bought for the first baby on the second one. We didn't know if we were having a boy or girl with Annabelle, so she really didn't have very many cute 0-3 month clothes, but I made up for that as soon as I was able to drive after my delivery.

Annabelle's baby wardrobe was full of cute little things, And because babies are cute, chubby blobs all of those clothes were reused on Tallulah. I bought her a few of her own things, and got both girls some matching Church outfits, because I am the annoying mom that likes to dress her kids alike for Church (I don't dress like them--I am annoying, not crazy, well, not that crazy, anyway)

But now, Tallulah is coming out of the blob stage, and so are Annabelle's hand-me-downs. Tallulah is turning into a sweet girl, who likes to climb on stuff, is slightly scared of animals, calls everyone mama, knows how to share (partly because everything is snatched from her hands anyway, so she might as well just give it up) and still seems more like a baby to me. Annabelle's clothes represent the girl who liked to eat dog food, bite people who took her toys, and ran with her elbows out, like a linebacker. Her clothes from this time period are lots of shorts and t-shirts. And they just don't look like Tallulah. I noticed this the other day as I was taking them out of storage and getting ready to launder them. They just look wrong. They are adorable. But they seem weird to put on Tallulah.

The baby clothes were the opposite. I couldn't wait to put Tallulah in all of the Annabelle classics. They were just too cute the first time and even cuter on round two. But this 12-18 stuff just looks odd. I mentioned this to H and he just said--she should have some of her own stuff. He's cool like that.

But, because I am a practical person, parsimony won out over individuality. And today, I dressed her in a hand-me down green t-shirt with a pineapple on it and some little hand-me-down jean culottes. Yes, there should be pictures on this blog, but I hate uploading stuff.

H came home and saw her and said "what is Tallulah wearing?" I was immediately curious, "what do you mean?" I asked. "she looks weird. You normally don't send her to school looking like that, she normally looks different." Again, I said "what do you mean?" "She looks, kind of... normally she looks cuter. She looks like a boy."
I told him they were hand me downs and he kind of nodded to himself and made a Tom Selleck lip pooch face as he does when he is processing something.

The thing is, that little outfit was one of my most favorite on Annabelle. She was adorable in it. But Tallulah just looks...like a tallulah in deidrich's clothes.