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Kudos to Christi for dressing her little boy like a LITTLE boy, and not rushing to put him in big boy clothes!  No, he isn't a baby in american culture, where an awful lot of people these days rush children straight from infancy to big kid status, he is a toddler, only two years old!  Aren't we disregarding an entire developmental stage here? So many people here are saying, "he's not a baby...", well, he isn't really a big kid either, two and three year olds are still very little. Wilson looks exactly as a boy his age should on special occasions and Sunday mornings. You rarely see little girls age 2-4 dressed for special accasions in the same clothing style as her mother, why, then, should a boy of that age dress as his father?  As for him being picked on, HE IS TWO! Where is he going to be beaten up at two? It was clearly stated that they didn't intend to dress him this way forever!  For the record, I dress my two year old son this way, and I am from WAY up here in Michigan!! Christi, go ahead and dress Wilson like the adorable little toddler that he is and don't listen to anyone who tells you otherwise!!   

Sunday afternoon through Saturday night, my gloriously rough and tumble two year old son can be found with grass-stained knees and grimy hands running around in the backyard with wreckless abandon wearing blue jeans and one of many truck/dinosaur/rocketship tee shirts.  Come Sunday morning, however, you will find him all cleaned up in a romper, jon jon, or (my personal favorite) sailor suit like a proper little boy.  Dressing your kids in playclothes when they are playing and getting messy absolutely doesn't disregaurd anything.  I think you misunderstood me.  I was refering to the comments stating that a two year old is not an infant, and is therefore a big kid.  I find footage of train crashes disturbing, I guess a mother pulling rank as the primary clothes shopper for her toddler just seems pretty typical to me, certainly not disturbing.  

Again, I think you misunderstood me.  I copied and pasted this straight  from my previous post so you could read it again:     

 "Dressing your kids in playclothes when they are playing and getting messy absolutely doesn't disregaurd anything.  I think you misunderstood me. I was refering to the comments stating that a two year old is not an infant, and is therefore a big kid."   

I am not saying that how you dress a child disregaurds a thing.  So many posts have stated that this child is a big kid since he is no longer a baby, and I am simply trying to remind them that there is a stage between infancy and "big kid".  This particular comment was about how we view children of this age, and had nothing to do with how we dress them.  That's all. And again, for the record, my little guy wears jeans and T shirts, sweat suits, etc... most of the time. The dressy classic outfits of which we speak are (in my case, and I believe, Christis's) for church and special occasions. What is the problem with that?  Would your daughter wear jeans and a T shirt to church, a wedding, as a guest at a holiday dinner etc...?  An event at which a pouffy, flowery, lacy dress is appropriate attire for a little girl, jon jons, shortalls, and the like are appropriate attire for a little boy...     

Women get the lion's share of the choices in this issue because they get the lion's share of the concequences.  The day that a man can carry, deliver, and nurse the child, they can have all the choices they please!