[mary594]

Ok, I know eskimo is not politically correct these days but that is what I think Juliet looks like in this picture.

Mary

[mary594]

Here is one more, since we have gated off all the stairs, she has taken to literally climbing the outside of the stairs. She holds onto the railing and works her way up. boy I am in trouble, so much for my dainty little girl.

Mary

[KellyMigoya]

That is cute!! E-Bay soon?

[dixiemom]

Juliet's coat and outfit are new so you'll have a bit of a wait. Has Mia had a growth spurt?

Mary, those are too cute! Don't you love "fluff" around our kids' faces????? I can't believe she is climbing on the rails now!!!!

Lynn

[Pamsko]

She's an adorable eskimo and perhaps part monkey since she loves to climb.

Thanks for the pictures!

[mary594]

Kelly get ready I was up till midnight putting Juliets last year spring/summer stuff on. I haven't even touched a portion of what I need to list!!

Mary

[mksilvermoon]

goregous photos!

thanks for sharing

[Sunshine Mom]

know eskimo is not politically correct these days

Please know that your daughter is absolutely adorable and my saying this is absolutely not due to her in anyways, but there is a REASON that the work eskimo is not considered a proper term anymore and offensive to many. Eskimo means "eats raw meat" and is a term that was assinged to the Northern Native People's by ignorant white explorers. The proper term is Inuit (In - You - It) and it is the term that for several decades they have asked to be called. Where I live, using the term Eskimo would result in people looking at you in horror.

Choosing to use a racially ignorant term, even when you know it is offensive to many to hear it, as well as the people it refers to (even if you dont know why), is simply wrong. Using the term Eskimo is the equivalent (to the Inuit people) to using several other offensive race label terms I wont mention but I am sure you would recognize and sadly your daughter may have to face in her lifetime because she is a visible minority.

I hope I havent offended, but as a minority person myself and friends with many cc people who are parenting minority children I think we need to be extra aware and sensitive to the labels we apply to others, even if its inconvenient.

Thanks for listening!

[mary594]

Sunshine mom thank you for setting me straight, I guess most people do not know that. When I was shopping a couple months ago someone came up to me and told me they were from Alaska and asked if she was Eskimo, they told me she looked it. I explained she was from Guatemala and was Mayan Indian. She was extremely nice.

Unfortunately everyone in this country is a little too pc these days, you never know what to say because you are going to offend someone. It is getting quite ridiculous!! I did not mean to offend anyone if I did by using that term. What ever happened to eskimo pies, did they have to change the name?

Mary

[csw]

Adorable coat..she looks so cute in it..your house looks so beautiful..always so clean and neat and painted nice colors..can you come over my way!!

[lisam951]

Juliet is adorable!

[2nd time round]

She is just darling, and I didn't know eskimo was not pc. I guess I learn something new everyday.


Thanks for sharing the pictures.

[Natasha Ryker]

I think your daughter is completely and utterly beautiful!
What a Mayan princess...

Innuit People are Beautiful too...

I am rather tired of the PC wars too...
You know why, because you can't say a **** thing wrong
unless your talking about a fat person.
Everyone can pick on the fat person...
they are lazy, stupid, pigs, eat all day.
There isn't a night that doesn't go by that Jay Leno doesn't
insult the Fat community...
By their very name, calling them fat.

I am fat, obese, round, rotund, chubby, soft around the edges...
and every other Descriptive adjective you can use to describe the enormity of my butt...
And, its still okay in the USA to use those adjectives...

Isn't being politically correct so freaking bias and fake.
Let's not talk the talk...lets simply walk the walk and
accept all people in love.

[lisam951]

Here is an explanation of the word Eskimo which I came across. I didn't know it was a problem to use the word before today.


The word Eskimo is not an Eskimo word. It means "eaters of raw meat" and was used by the Algonquin Indians of eastern Canada for these hardy neighbors who wore animal-skin clothing and were adept hunters. The name became commonly employed by European explorers and now is generally used, even by Eskimo. Their own term for themselves is Inuit (the Yupik variant is Yuit), which means the "real people.

[dixiemom]

I guess millions and millions of us are ignorant (misinformed, not stupid). I find it incredibly interesting that the "eaters of raw meat" "label" was so horrifiying, when from what I was always taught in school about whale blubber, etc. it was correct....admittedly, however, our schools and teachers don't always get history correct. Just makes me wonder about the American Indians, and I'm sure I'll be corrected if I am wrong, took part of their names from animals and adjectives.

When all is said and done I just want to say "JULIET IS ADORABLE IN HER COAT"

Lynn, author of a prior "eskimo" thread, and apparently should be ashamed of myself.