Oh, China.

The other day I went shopping for some clothes for our sweet baby.  I wanted clothes that fit my cultural definition of boy clothes- no pink, no frills, no girly cartoon characters.  I once had to explain to a Chinese mother in America why her 7 year old son was getting teased for wearing a really cute pink sweater.  The blank look on her face was priceless.  Now that I live here, I understand why.  Pink is a child's color, with no specific gender.

A friend of ours gave us this vest.

While groovy and cool, it's a little too....sparkly for me.

She also gave us these cute overalls.

Notice the hole in the crotch?  No diaper for most babies here.  You can get "regular" pants and onesies here but you have to really look.

I went off to our local really big place filled with small shops shopping center.  I have a pretty good idea where the good stalls are so I knew where I wanted to go.  I turned down the pink striped pants and got these cute blue striped pants, slightly padded which in our climate is great.

Underneath these clothes, he has one another onesie and a pair of sweat pants.  However, he is barefoot because he loves to take off his socks!

Anyway, I thought these were fairly masculine until I got them home and discovered this- sparkle kitty!  Oh well!  He'll never know he was sparkly!

Two more things that are cracking me up.

I ride my bike by this sign all the time and finally took a picture.

Well, as long as the invitation is affectionate, I'll be there!

Sorry for the blurry shot.  All I have to say is yuck!