| When it comes to buying baby clothes, I must | | | | I admit, I love to shop for baby clothes. Since money |
| confess that I am addicted. When our first child was | | | | isn't much of an issue in terms of buying baby |
| born, my husband and I were barely making ends | | | | clothes from Target, Baby Gap and Carter's, I often |
| meet. He was a lowly supervisor at a ho-hum job, | | | | buy a lot of cute things for both my son and |
| and I was working in fast food. Between the two of | | | | daughter. My daughter, being female and loving all |
| us and some family help now and again we managed | | | | things pink, purple, floral and sparkly, has a lot of |
| to scrape together enough to keep a roof over our | | | | items in those mentioned categories. |
| heads, a car paid for, utilities barely on time, food in | | | | Buying childrens clothes for a boy can be more |
| the fridge, and clothes, personal products and | | | | difficult, simply because it's hard to find baby and |
| cleaning products in the home. | | | | toddler boy clothing that isn't dark and dreary, bright |
| Needless to say, a lot of the baby clothes that were | | | | and obnoxious, or simply related to garish cartoon |
| purchased for our daughter came from consignment | | | | characters and obnoxious sports-related things. In |
| shops. I am not ashamed to admit this, though I feel | | | | order to find high quality boy baby clothes that are |
| bad that our circumstances had drastically improved in | | | | appropriate for babies and young toddlers, I've found |
| time for the birth of our second child, and he has | | | | that you really have to focus on finding higher quality |
| never worn a single stitch of secondhand clothing. | | | | brands and merchandise. |
| As I write this my daughter and son are working | | | | In order to find baby clothing that is high quality and |
| their way out of baby clothes. My daughter, who is | | | | aren't obnoxious, dark, too bright, related to sports |
| four, is on the petite side, and so she can wear | | | | or plastered on all sides with cartoon characters, I |
| many pants that are 4T and even 3T. Most of her | | | | often take my search online. There, I'll find online |
| 5T pants require the cuffs to be rolled up and a belt | | | | baby clothing shops like sandboxcouture.com, and all |
| to be threaded through the loops. My son is two | | | | of the adorable baby clothes and toddler clothes I |
| years younger than her, yet is wearing 5T now, and | | | | could ever wish for. |
| will be putting the baby clothes behind him by spring. | | | | |