It's funny -- we totally had this problem with the girlchild and have never had it with the boy. People still think she's a boy, and I'm going come on, look at the child! She's five years old and binky and has little delicate girly features and, oh yeah, wears all the pink she can get ahold of (I still mostly hate pink, but she gets a lot of pink hand-me-downs).

Admittedly, she has a gender-neutral nickname, and I do buy her boys' (plain) jeans because dangit, if I am going to buy new pants they are going to go for both kids and I can't see making a little boy wear pink flares, but still.

I think people are very into the gender-coding very early. It's distressing. And just wait, soon you get to deal with the princess thing. Bleargh. This is a republic! I don't want to be raising a princess!