We have the good fortune to be friends with one of the kindest, sweetest, funniest, most beautiful families ever. Peanut is best friends with Sweet P, Squirt is best friends with Little E, and Boo is enamored with their baby boy. I cannot stop laughing when I am with J and J. They make me laugh. Big, loud, ugly laughs.
They met us to take some pictures for this project the other day, and we all had so much fun. I might tell them I am doing photo projects all the time just so we all hang out together.
Here is their youngest. He is easily in the top 5 cutest babies I’ve ever known. And he makes a perfect little poodle.
Now a question: Is the fact that a little boy is wearing a pink poodle costume off-putting? Is it less threatening than Boo in his Daphne costume? Perhaps because he is still a baby? Discuss.
Awwww… Cute! That’s the neat thing about babies, You can dress them in whatever you want!
Bwahahahaha…!!!
❤ it!!!
First of all, he is too cute! People will probably think he’s a little girl at first but I would hope that people wouldn’t find it off-putting. But I wouldn’t think that your son in the Daphne costume would be either. Halloween is supposed to be about dressing up and having fun.
ha ha knitmanyarn… you ROCK!!!! :)
People will assume he is a girl at first. If they find out he is a boy a few of them will probably say to themselves, “why a pink dog” and a few more would likely think to themselves “I wouldn’t/wouldn’t let my wife put my son in a pink dog costume”. They probably would not feel as threatened by that as they would a grown little boy choosing himself to dress as Daphne for Halloween. Perhaps they would likely not be thinking the homophobic thoughts that come along with a boy choosing to dress as a girl, as opposed to a Mom making the choice to put her baby boy in a pink costume. xo
Babies have a sort-of androgynous quality - I find it beautiful. Even now as a toddler, if I snap a shot of my daughter without her shirt (her current favorite form of dress), she looks like an adorable boy with long hair. If I snap the same shot while she’s wearing a dress and pigtails, she looks like a girl.
I’m sure that it has been said many, many times before, but it seems to me that the outcry over cross-dressing (in any form) results from the fact that much of society holds a very narrow view of what acceptable gender roles are. That is shaken by the sight of a person stepping outside of those roles. Why is that so frightening? Why is their fear so close to the surface?
Humans try new things every day. It’s how we learn and grow. How do you learn what you like and don’t like if you don’t step outside what you already know? How would people ever make advances in fields like art, medicine or architecture if they never step outside what is already known?
I’m gonna go ask my kid what she wants to be for Halloween. I hope that she picks something ridiculous that stretches out her world and tests my skills (HA!) as a costumer.
My 3 year old was told when he was a Pink Poodle by several people that he was the cutest little girl. And he got OH look at her. He polity pointed out that he was a BOY poodle lol.
mmmm….I wonder says the man in the pink trilby…..