About Colors and Clothes, Fingers and Toes

Red is the color of celebration in China, and white is the color of mourning. Thus, one should avoid dressing a child in white while traveling in China. In other words, white may go with anything, but it doesn't go over too well in China. Guess we'll have to leave at home all those 6-12 month size onesies (white) we bought from the Carter’s store.
As you can see from Mia’s first photos at the bottom of the page, the Chinese believe in dressing their children in lots of layers. Those photos were taken in April, which is plenty warm where Mia lives. We’ve been instructed to let her slowly adjust to wearing fewer clothes, and to keep her arms and feet covered as is considered proper. Mia may show quite a fascination with her own fingers and toes at first, largely because when one is dressed like the Michelin Man, one doesn’t get a close-up look at one’s fingers and toes too often.