Growing Up Geeky: Why are there no sports clothes for baby girls?

Let me preface this by saying that I absolutely love dressing Carina up in frills, ruffles, dresses and ridiculously girly accessories (some of which you will see tomorrow, squeeee!) whenever I can. That said, I was recently thinking that I should try to to diversify her wardrobe, at least a little. So why is it that I cannot find a single onesie or shirt for a baby girl emblazoned with "Mommy's little slugger" or "Daddy's slam dunk"? P.S. do you think that second one is as funny as I do?

I know, I know..."but Mama G, boys play sports." Right. But so do girls. In 2001, 1 in 2.5 girls participated in high school sports¹. I bet that number is even higher today. Given such high participation levels, and all of the benefits of physical exercise and being part of a team, it seems logical to me that us Moms of girls would hope for our daughters to play sports someday.

This brings me to {what I think} is an interesting question; how do we choose our babies' clothes? Do we just pick up whatever is cute or on clearance, or do we select items that project upon our children certain ideals - what we hope they will be and/or what we want them to accomplish in life?

Thinking about it now, it's possible that I have been doing the latter...subconsciously. I bought a cute outfit with ballet slippers - and yes, I guess I do intend on enrolling Carina in ballet class someday. I avoided the "Diva" onesie because I would not want to encourage that sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. And while it may adorn a number of your adorable teeny clothes, Carina, I'm sorry to tell you that you can't be a real princess, no matter how badly I would like you to be.

Now I'm curious about all of you - how do you choose your children's clothes? Do your boys sport little baseball onesies? Are your girls running around in "Goddess" tees? I'm probably way overthinking this...

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