Baby T-shirts

In this town of beachwear stores and bad novelty shops I am constantly bombarded by t-shirts with stupid sayings on them 99% of which annoy the hell out of me. I'm talking about such gems as "You say DIVA like it's a bad thing" and "I support single moms" and about 10,000 of the most white trash sayings you could imagine.

When you combine these bad sayings with overwrought graphics of large flames, half-naked women from 1987, fast cars with big engines, snakes, dragons, tigers, unicorns, tribal designs, american flags, eagles, and skulls they make for the most gaudy examples of what is wrong with America today. I honestly hate these shirts so much that I believe my version of hell would include slaving away behind a computer coming up with designs for these pieces of crap.

Sure, I've owned my fair share of dumb shirts in my life. Among the worst of them are a "booty call warning" shirt and a handmade shirt that reads "I am the smartest man alive" which I used to wear to tests in college. But yet, my decision to wear these monstrosities was my own. They weren't forced upon me by my parents like so many of the poor babies I see being hauled around wearing "I'm a boob man!" t-shirts.

I've seen so many of these goofy things that I have been telling Heidi that I am dead set on not doing the same thing to our child when it is born.

*cue hypocrisy bell*

Today I found a site with some baby clothes I can finally relate to. Instead of cliche's like "I'm mommy's favorite" they offer more tech-saavy options such as these geek favorites:




Sure they are stupid, but since I'm 90% sure my baby will grow up to be a nerd I figure it's never too early to label him or her with obscure references that people will think I'm crazy for putting on his chest. OK, so maybe it wasn't the idea of labeling my baby that bothered me as much as the things that people label their baby with. Besides, my kid will be better than everyone else's, right?

I got a bunch more of these sites coming down the pipeline too...I found a whole plethora of web resources on raising babies for techies, so I plan on sharing them as I explore further.

Chris