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I just read that one of my favorite celebrities Katherine Heigl and her hubby, musician Josh Kelly, just adopted a special needs baby girl from Korea.

I am a huge and avid supporter of adoption. One of my mom’s best friends just adopted two girls, ages 9 & 7, that I had the privilege to meet a few weekends ago. And now that I am grown up and out of the house, my mother is considering starting the process to become a foster parent. I hope to become an adoptive parent myself one day….

Some pics of the new Kelly family:

BTW, 40 Days For Life begins next week! Check the website for your local movement.

CBB wrote a post on Ali Landry’s choice of dress for her daughter Estela that generated a variety of comments: 

Ali Landry Starts the Season; Talks Baby Style

“[For myself,] I’m a bargain shopper extraordinaire. We’re talking $20 for the shoes. For my baby I do not go cheap chic. I fly to Louisiana and buy all her clothes there, because I am very much classic, traditional [for] Estela. When we’re out and about people are like, ‘Oh, it’s a baptism. Oh, it’s a party.’ I’m like, ‘No, we dress her like this every day.’

I put her in bonnets till just a few weeks ago and she wears the shoes, little socks with the ruffles, a bow in her hair. She’s always a completely dressed and very classic baby. I refuse to do trendy. Babies — in my opinion — should not be trendy; they’re a baby for a very short amount of time; they should look like a baby. Now she’s 16 months and she wears dresses; I never put her in a pair of pants ever.”

Some of the commenters on the post thought that it was a bit over the top to not dress a girl in pants while others applauded Ali’s statements. I’m not into the pants vs. skirt discussion, but I thought this was interesting because it goes into the topic of baby girls and modesty.

A lot of the girl’s clothes I see on the rack now are basically shrunken versions of adult clothes; something in my estimation is wholly inappropriate. I’m not a parent so I can only speak from my opinion, but this new “trendy baby” generation seems to be step one in oversexualizing girls at a young age. It may not seem significant as we’re talking about infants who won’t remember what they’ve worn, but from what I’ve seen, trendy babies become trendy little girls, and some of the trends for young girls today are not ones that we should be encouraging. (Those whorish Bratz dolls come to mind.)

I haven’t asked her but I think my mother would side with Ali as most of the pictures I have seen of myself as an infant have been of me in a dress, stockings, and a bonnet. I guess I won’t know until if and when I have a baby girl, but I’m curious, what do you think about a baby girl’s wardrobe?

Classic or trendy?

~Rebecca.