<p>My favorite is the embellished child’s bath towel from Land’s End Home with the child’s name custom embroidered on it.</p>
<p>Wedding registries,honeymoon registries, baby registries, birthday party registries, college dorm registries —use your imagination!</p>
<p>soozie - if you really want some entertainment, spend some time on weddingchannel.com.</p>
<p>It seems to be the go to site that engaged couples are using to link to their wedding websites and their gift registries. Even when I haven’t been invited to a wedding, but know someone who is getting married, I sometimes look them up to read about their wedding plans. Your daughters are the age of mine, so I’m sure the engagements of friends has started to happen (if not weddings already).</p>
<p>The books, terwitt. Go for the favorite books you remember.</p>
<p>cottonwood - but they’re the books that almost every parent I know has for their kids. I actually remember having two copies of Pat the Bunny, both given as gifts.</p>
<p>Well, I certainly am aware of wedding registries as I registered myself and it makes sense for setting up a home or when there are things like china or silverware patterns. I had not heard of registering for baby gifts though.</p>
<p>While my girls are 22 and 24, they haven’t been to any weddings. I don’t know if anyone is even engaged yet. My older D did just see a friend from HS (not close friend) as she gave this girl a ride back to Boston earlier this week and that girl is engaged, she said.</p>
<p>I really like the towel sets at Lands End which are personalised for kids. They have several designs, and then the child’s name or initials. Everyone I’ve given them to raves about them, and my teenagers still use the ones I bought for them when they were little. They’re very good quality, ordered to send online so convenient, and useful.With mailing I think under 30 dollars as well.</p>
<p>I do the books – I pick out a selection of books my D loved as a toddler – the ones we didn’t mind reading over and over again. They’re often books that aren’t promoted heavily anymore – not Pat the Bunny or Goodnight, Moon. Some of our favorites: The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear (Don & Audrey Woods); King Bidgood’s In the Bathtub (Woods), Is Your Mama A Llama? (Deborah Guarino), We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (Michael Rosen), The Island of the Skog (Steven Kellog), Freight Train (Donald Crews), Blueberries for Sal (McCloskey), and Each Peach Pear Plum (Ahlberg), as well as a really nice Mother Goose. Some personalized book plates would be a very nice add-on.</p>
<p>I’m agreeing with arabrab on the favorite books. Not the common stuff. The kind you hang on to for your own grandkids because you aren’t sure they will still be in print. Like Where’s My Monkey and Catch Me and Kiss Me and Say it Again. And Bailey Goes Camping. And Marie Louise’s Hey Day. And Joyful Noise, Poems for Two Voices. Listen, Rabbit. Knots on a Counting Rope. Owl Moon. Roxenboxen. Enemy Pie. Westlandia. And that one where the cherries mutiny.</p>
<p>I echo the personalized step-stools - we give them to clients who have had babies.</p>
<p>The other thing that is nice is one of those measuring sticks with some sort of decoration at the bottom (can be personalized) - it looks like a yardstick, but with some child-appropriate decoration on the bottom – you nail it to a wall and can track baby’s growth.</p>
<p>We have two (with a dinosaur and a pink elephant) that we received when my twins were babies, and keep them on a laundry room wall. We measured them every few months and marked it on the wall - we even still measure them on their birthdays even though they are 18, it’s turned into quite the little tradition.</p>