Girl or boy?

It starts the minute a baby is born....a pink blanket for a girl, a blue blanket for a boy. If you find out the sex of your baby before birth, it actually starts earlier....your baby shower will be a sea of pastel pinks or baby blues.

People really don't know what to do with themselves if you don't obey the "rule."

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Halloween isn't the only time we like to dress up defenseless babies and transform those little ones into something else. Thanksgiving is the perfect time to dress up your babe in the spirit of the holiday! Turkeys, pilgrims, Indians, pumpkins -- you name it, someone has done it. And you should too!

What's more adorable than a baby sitting around the Thanksgiving dinner table dressed as part of the meal? Not your Aunt Sally, that's for sure.

In case you're looking for inspiration, or just looking for some cuteness to get into the holiday spirit, here are 5 of the cutest babies dressed for Thanksgiving.

Now that my kids are 6 and 3, I buy those enormous value packs of white boy socks and that's what they wear every single day. Boring, prone to toe-holes, and usually scattered over every surface of the house, but at least I don't have to worry about finding a matching pair in the morning.

When they were babies, though, they had the cutest socks in the world. Soft socks, hand-knitted socks, tiny newborn socks, socks with grippy lettering on the bottom to help wobbly toddler feet ... man, those were some great socks. I figured I would hand down an adorable basketful of those things once they were outgrown.

Except somehow, somewhere, one matching sock from every single pair went missing, never to be found again. How did this happen? It's one of the biggest mysterious of babyhood, and if you have any theories, I'd love to hear them.

As a mom who dressed up her baby girl in a bee costume (see swinging photo to your right), I get the mass appeal of turning your tiny ones into even tinier ones: insects, bugs, creepy crawlies. There's something horribly cute about taking an icky bug and making it adorable. Which is why I've found so many ridiculously cute babies dressed up as insects all over Flickr. Parents, you're awesome for doing this to your baby trick-or-treaters. And you make us all want to re-visit the arthropod as costume for our little ones.

So bust out the etymology textbooks, parents! Or for some visual inspiration, check out these six baby bugs all ready for Halloween.

I was going through some old baby clothes a few months ago and I stumbled across a terrible outfit I'd received as a baby gift for my first son. At first glance it was almost sort of cute, but the more you looked at it, the worse it got. First of all, it was pure white with a bit of blue piping, the sort of thing that gets soiled beyond repair about 0.0001 seconds after you wrestle your baby into it. Not only that, it had about 3,915 buttons, which created a perfect combination of being both hellishly difficult to deal with AND providing a vast army of choking hazards. Finally, it had this goofy collar that not only seemed scratchy and uncomfortable, but possessed the eerie power to transform any adorable infant into a total baby dorkface.

Revisiting this outfit got me thinking about how in the midst of all the painfully cute onesies and beautiful heirloom blankets that are available out there, there are still plenty of spectacularly putrid baby fashions. For instance:

It's not easy to match your outfit to your baby's and come off looking good. Chicer moms than me have tried and still made you wonder where the roaring fire and the Christmas tree were hiding. But a shot of the always gorgeous Miranda Kerr clutching cutie Flynn in her arms as she walked through the Sydney airport makes me want to try.