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Friday, May 20, 2011

Single white "baby" syndrome?

Can babies have a single white female?  DH may laugh at this post or think I'm shallow but oh well.  Here is the jest.  My good friend...yes I love her despite some mild dislike of what she does...copies a lot of what I/we do.  Should I be flattered or annoyed?  Her daughter is basically 3 months old and our daughters are basically 5 months...two months apart.  When we were thinking of names for our girls we settled on Kendall's full name easily (I knew I wanted my mother's name to be the middle if we had a daughter).  But Seren wasn't so easy.  We debated on Riley (Jeff's dad's name...due to a long standing tradition of the males trading off William and Riley for their sons names...Jeff's first name is actually William and he goes by his middle).  We considered if we would have another child or chance at DE IVF and settled into Seren Olivia instead.  We shared this name with this friend.  We debated some more and about a month before they were born we decided Seren Riley would be perfect (in case we never had a boy or another child at all).  I mean who wants to be the one that kills a generational tradition.  My friend asked about names in December and when I didn't mention the middle names she pried a little more to find out.  Well low and behold once Olivia was off the table for us...it suddenly became their daughter's middle name.  Kind of bugged but it happens.

Then it came to the bouncers.  We had a brown and pink ones for both girls and my friend liked them.  She told me they looked at others and couldn't find one they liked as much.  This got copied too.  Then it was their baby blessing dresses.  She was going to make L's dress but it fell through.  She asked where I had bought the girls' dresses.  I gave her a few places I had looked and a direct link to the one I selected (so that she wouldn't pick it).  She bought one from the same place and a nearly identical dress saying she kept eying the one I picked and it would have been her first choice if not for the link I sent.  I mentioned I might add color to the twins dresses to make them more individual and if this was "church approved".  She asked someone she knew (I thought on my behalf) so I thanked her.  She told me "I didn't just ask for you I wanted to know too as I was thinking of doing that".  Next, most recently, they were at our house with the girls hanging out on the floor.  Their daughter doesn't love tummy time but when placed by the crib mirrors I have out for the twins she smiled and seemed to do better.  What do they do?  Immediately get on their smart phone and order their daughter the exact same one without leaving or even pause for thought.  Seriously?

I guess it shouldn't bother me.  It's just baby items.  But there are TONS of baby items out there.  Why do you have to get so much of the exact same stuff we have?  Hopefully it doesn't keep up but I'm kind of interested to see.

2 comments:

Momasita said...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but also one the most annoying forms of flattery! Clearly, if you do all the research on what is best to buy, they can sit back and just buy what you decide on.

Michelle D said...

That's probably exactly what is. I get to research and find the best item for the best deal and they can't help themselves. Somewhat comforting...thanks :)