The Neo-Edwardian Hipster

I accept it...I adulation attractive at celebrity babies. I've never been abundant of a celebrity watcher, but the babies of celebrities are different. I'll consistently stop in the grocery aisles to booty a blink at Suri or Shiloh.

I'm not the alone one absorbed by the celebrity progeny. The tabloids are abounding of them because so abounding of us are interested. And I can't absolutely explain why this is. Why do I feel analytical about Angelina and Brad's children, but absolutely don't affliction that abundant about Angelina and Brad?

For me, it's partially because accouchement change so bound - like my adolescent has. The celebrities themselves don't adapt that much, but their kids do. I'm additionally analytical about which celebrity ancestor the adolescent resembles. To me, Suri is a dead-ringer for her dad. For a mom from my daughter's ball class, however, Suri looks absolutely like her mother. (We came to the cessation that Tom and Katie attending a lot akin and their babe looks like both of them.)

Even the clothes beat by the celebrity accouchement are arresting to some people. In fact, there's a accustomed website adherent to celebrity babies area you can buy some of the clothes beat by the celebrity kids and the accessory their mothers use.

I can accept this. Moms like to dress up their kids and accouchement of celebrities accept some ambrosial clothes. Plus, you may absolutely be able to allow some of the clothes beat by the kids, alike if the celebrity clothes are above your budget.

I would adulation to dress my babe in these clothes too. My daughter, unfortunately, does not affliction about celebrities or their children, and has no absorption in their accouterment - no amount how beautiful those clothes may be. She has austere rules about her apparel from which she does not deviate.

Rule #1: It has to be a bendable adaptable fabric. My babe was 18 months old the aftermost time she wore jeans. In accession to jeans, she won't abrasion corduroy, velvet, or annihilation abroad that isn't a bendable knit. I gave in and accustomed this aphorism afterwards a decidedly aching adventure area I approved to force her to abrasion abstract bittersweet clover pants that I loved. (She took them off and I put them aback on her. She took them off, again threw them in the debris and I put them aback on her. She peed in them, again I took them off and gave her bendable adaptable pants to wear.) Score=Daughter: 1, Mom: 0

Rule #2: It has to be pink. The blush alternative started about two for my daughter, but affronted into a attraction by three. To my daughter, blush and amethyst are babe colors and aggregate abroad is for boys. Unfortunately, I had bought absolutely a few non-pink accouterment for her one division afore I accepted her acerbity on this rule. Almost all of the beautiful reds, oranges, blues, and yellows I bought were not worn, no amount how I cajoled, threatened, and reasoned. I traumatized her already by banishment her to abrasion one of the non-pink apparel to her pre-school. She insisted that all of her accompany would beam at her for cutting "boy clothes" - not compassionate that no sane mother would put her son in a top with sequins and glitter. I chock-full aggravating afterwards this and bought alone pink, with a scattering of purple. I accept to say that it does accomplish the laundry easier and I can consistently acquisition article that matches. Score=Daughter: 2, Mom: 0

Rule #3: Atramentous and amber are yucky. My babe acclimated to ask me over and over why I wore atramentous all the time, at a complete accident why anyone would accept to abrasion such a color. She assuredly accomplished the ambiguous cessation that amber and atramentous are "mommy colors," article you are accursed to abrasion back you accept a baby. She won't alike area her admired blush if it's alloyed in with a communicable atramentous or brown. She accomplished a break-through, however, back she accustomed a admirable amber dress hand-painted with blush flowers from a acquaintance on her birthday. Afterwards abundant anguish, she consented to abrasion the dress because she didn't demand to aching her friend's feelings, but has accustomed no added amber or atramentous to access her apparel back then. Score=Daughter 2.5, Mom: .5

Rule #4: Buttons are alone objectionable.  Somewhere forth the line, my babe absitively that she abhorred buttons. This includes all buttons, whether they are plain, heart-shaped, or attending like animals. I accept no abstraction area she got this one, but no buttons are accustomed on her person, whether adorning or functional. Not alone will she not abrasion annihilation with buttons, she doesn't demand my bedmate and I to abrasion them either and lectures us back we do. Score=Daughter: 3.5, Mom: .5

Rule #5: Zippers are for jackets and coats only. My babe brand zippers on her jackets and coats, but not on annihilation else. She insists on accepting adaptable waistbands on her pants, skirts, and shorts and if they accept a zipper, they usually don't accept a adaptable waistband. This one absolutely makes faculty to me. Adaptable waistbands are abundant added comfortable. Score=Daughter: 4, Mom: 2

I accept this is a ascendancy affair for my daughter. And clashing captious eating, it's one in which I can accord in to her. I'm alike abiding that I will feel cornball about this in the not-too abroad approaching (when all she wants to abrasion is black) and anticipate it was all actual cute. Still, it would be nice to dress her up in some of those beautiful celebrity kid clothes.

Really Mad Momma is a armpit adulatory the carelessness of motherhood - the things that accomplish us insane, confused, angry, and berserk agog in our roles as nuturer and protector of our children.