If it helps at all, PB LOVES pink, too! In a very masculine way, of course! ;-) Or should I say, in a very gender-neutral way? Hehehehehee

Bwahahahahahahaha! There is no escape!

I hear this every.frickin.day:

"I neet a wear PINK panst! Neet a wear PINK dirsh! Neet a wear PINK socks! Not whites! Pinks! PINKS!"

Karyn, excellent! Equal opportunity pinksis infection!

Casey, LOL. At least so far I only hear it in reference to prospective clothing. She will still wear blue jeans.

"Also, I find her insistence on PINK for everything adorable and mostly harmless."

Exactly! The Pie wears pink A LOT, though the blame for this lies squarely with her mother at this point. But she also plays with trains (I just picked up a great train-related board book for her at the library), kicks a ball, and wields a mean power drill. Basically, she does whatever she wants and wears whatever I want (for now).

LOL!

Yep, it hits out of the blue!

For us, it started right after Char switched from her home daycare (where she was one of only 2 girls) to a center-based program that was mostly girls and a few boys. Suddenly, she was all about PINK. I remember her sitting with the Lands End catalog on her lap last spring, pointed at every single PINK garment, calling out, "I want THIS one, and THIS one....

Worse yet, with the PINK virus, the next thing that happens is the DISNEY PRINCESS fungus: "Mamma! It's the Dancing Pwincesses! I want the DANCING PWINCESSES!"

Big brother, before he went to preschool and fell under the influence of Peer Pressure, once told me he LOVED pink. Not htat he called it pink. "I want the LIGHT RED plate, Mamma. I like the LIGHT RED shirt..."

It seems to mostly happen to girls, too - although I've seen a boy or two come down with it.

I posted on something similar once (I overheard a little girl being chastised for wanting a "boy's" blue bike). I hope my kids-to-be won't be attracted to certain "gender-prone" colours. I certainly won't encourage that. Although, I hear pink is the colour for unconditional love, so it could be a good thing if you look at it that way. :)

I love pink, but pink clashes with red!

Maybe she'll go blue when she hits her teens.

This is wearing an older brother helps out a bit. I'm sure Frances looks just as gorgeous in pink as she does in any other color!

I'm hate to break it to you but. . .

IT NEVER TOTALLY GOES AWAY.

And I wasn't even a girly girl.

Muffin Man has it, too. I had to "edit" the Land's End catalog when we were buying sandals for him this summer, 'cause if he'd seen the pink sandals, he wouldn't have been content with the day-glo orange ones. And, while I am perfectly fine with him wearing pink, there are certain other people in this house who are NOT. Those people may or may not have said, "If we were still living in NYC, and it were the '80's, then he could wear pink."

Yes, Pink is Contagious! My daughter loves Pink! I must admit I do too! Hee hee. We bought her a lovely Holiday Designer Dress and Flowers by Zoe outfits for Fall. Pink looks great with black, and, I found it is a "hip" trend with girls this season! We are infected with the Pinks!

Little known fact: pink is subversive, pink is adopted by those rage against the machine, pink is sometimes even worn by people who are truly comfortable in their own skin.

I'm no Barbie girl, but Pink is my favourite colour. (Okay, red too, but pink ranks right up there.)

p.s. I would love a pair of pink combat boots.