Thank you @oldfort and @seal16 ! Very helpful. I will pass the info on to the givers and the gift recipients. 
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@BunsenBurner D and SIL loved the Snoo. GD has outgrown it, but it’s being kept for a possible second baby. In the meantime D is renting it out to friends.
Edited to add: GD had no problem transitioning from Snoo to regular crib.
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The only thing about the Snoo that my daughter and DIL have heard about the Snoo is infants transitioning off of them. Seems some infants have a hard time sleeping when removed from the Snoo; that said, my DIL’s sister’s child had no trouble what so ever.
My daughter loved the Snoo swaddle as her daughter was an escape artist; she was able to get her arms out of most other swaddles. Our GS, at 2 weeks has already been able to pull his arms out of his swaddles; my daughter is going to send her Snoo swaddle for them to try.
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Went to yummy pastry shop yesterday morning and picked up some for D & SIL who work from home. As I drop them off, D mentions that GD doesn’t have daycare on Monday, that it’s a professional development day. Later it occurs to me that daycare director is smart like a fox - what better day to avoid the kiddos than the first weekday after the time change when everyone is still out of sorts schedule wise. Smart of them, but hard on moms & dads. I volunteered to keep GD 1/2 day to give them a break. The PBS Kids app will help me out.
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3.5 year old GD is just getting into Disney Princesses. She listens to her Tonie Box all the time, so during the holidays was gifted a few Disney characters. Currently, she is obsessed with Frozen, and she is Princess Queen Elsa Rocky! (I updated as I had the name wrong) Rocky is from Paw Patrol, so she had to have her previous favorite show in the name. My D is slowly introducing her to the Disney movies; prior to this, screen time was very limited. Due to a food allergy regiment she is on, she had to be calm after her dinner dosing, so what better way to keep a toddler still-screen time!
GD still loves her Paw Patrol toys and shows, but I think Disney may win her over! I was told to bring her another Paw Patrol car when I visit next month, but think I may have to include something from Frozen. Off to research what I should take as there are so many choices!
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I’m interested to hear how your GD responds to the Disney movies. We have Disney + but so far our GD(also 3.5 yrs old) has only watched the shows and shorts that are part of Disney Jr. and she’s even found a couple of episodes of those shows scary. At the moment, she’s on a Doc McStuffins binge and will ask for the same episode before next watching couple of the Preschool shorts. We let her watch 30 - 45 minutes per day when we babysit.
Now that we’re also babysitting the new baby, it would be helpful some days to have a movie GD could watch especially when the weather is bad. I just don’t want to try one that will upset her and it’s tough to know in advance.
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GD 3.5 yrs old went to see the ballet of snow white. Apparently the daytime crowd all dressed in their princess outfits. GD wore Elsa from frozen… very much into that.
Her favorite shows are Cocomelon.
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Costumes. My kids loved the costumes most of all. My niece used to get totally dressed in her costumes to watch the movies, like getting ready for the theater or a night on the town. I even made her a Belle Cape and she’d put on the dress, cape, have a Belle snack and settle in for a viewing.
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Try the Disney Sing-a-longs. Those are just the songs and clips from the movies or cartoons. One of my kids could watch ANYTHING and didn’t care how scary, but the other one needed just songs and fun, happy things. Still sort or this way as adults!
The one who liked scary things cried buckets when she went to Disneyland and they wouldn’t let her on the roller coaster. “Zip-a-dee-do dah! I want to go on it!” She’d watched the video a million times and knew the song and the ride and just didn’t understand why a 3 year old couldn’t go on it.
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This child usually is afraid of loud noises and scary characters on shows. She loves Peppa Pig, but did not like Grandpa Pig. If he came on the screen she would cover her eyes, and refuses episodes he was in! My son’s daughter that is only 8 months older, also would halfway cover her eyes during scary parts of shows, but still loved them.
I think when my daughter gets to Little Mermaid, she will have to be next to GD as I am sure Ursula will definitely scare her. I do think knowing the songs will help. That said, this GD will probable talk about the scary parts a lot! She already has seen Cinderella and does not like the step-mother, so hasn’t watched again. Moana went over well, but Frozen and Frozen 2 are her favorite, along with her Frozen books.
@twoinanddone The other grandmother already provided a Frozen costume; I have a video of her dancing around singing Let it Go!
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3 year old GD is heavily into Frozen and Moana. She’s got the Frozen dress and blonde braid - which looks pretty funny on a dark-haired child. Her Moana underwear was a big incentive when she was potty training. She also likes Cocomelon. I can only tolerate a few episodes of that at a time.
As for the Little Mermaid- that was a huge hit when my kids were little. I remember taking my D (GD’s mom) to see LM in the theater when she was almost 4. She loved the movie but kept telling everyone that “the sea witch is so mean”.
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4 yo has for the past year been extremely into Frozen and Moana, and most especially Encanto, which is pretty gentle overall. And has fantastic music.
She hasn’t watched many serieses, but lately discovered Lion Guard, which is a spinoff of Lion King (which was too scary), and is obsessed with it.
Parents have generally avoided anything much earlier than these most recent Disney movies.
Our kids loved those when we had them on VHS tapes years ago. They were great.
I’m glad to learn that Moana has been a hit. GD would love the water scenes, especially the ones with toddler Moana. Thanks for the help.
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My kids were very fragile kids. S got upset at age 3 when preschool teacher read 3 billy goats gruff and also James & the Giant Peach (James parents were killed and he was being mistreated at beginning of story). The teacher scolded me and said I needed to toughen S (I didn’t agree).
They covered their heads when wicked witch in Snow white and Ursula scenes and were considerably older by then. They also started crying and whimpering during 3 Musketeers (torture scene shadows at beginning of movie—I left with them & got a raincheck for another movie at later date).
Neither likes scary movies now as adults either, nor do H and I.
We weren’t that big on Disney movies but our kids watched a lot of old musicals. There are several with fun music and little to upset the little ones. (ask me how I happen to know every line in “Hello Dolly”).
GD is only 8 months now but she will be watching in a few years.
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D loved some old musicals as well, particularly The King & I.
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What a great alternative to Disney movies. I’m not anti but I personally could not stand to watch a lot of animated stuff. My kids will say that any Disney movies they watched (outside of Little Mermaid and Lion King) were at somebody else’s house!
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We watch Disney song videos on YouTube. D loves music, and thanks to the Arabic music videos she watches at her other grandparents’ house, she is one heck of a dancer. She’s two, and she makes up songs about things in her life. A couple weeks ago, she was singing about how her dog puked! 
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Well…if anyone needs them…we have ALL of the Disney movies on VHS…with a VHS player. We could not take our DD to the movies to see any of them because they all had at least one loud and scary part, and one very mean character who frightened her. But we could watch at home, and she could leave the room, or whatever.
Funny…when we were getting rid of the VHS movies, she clearly stated that she wanted these and these only!
Maybe she is saving them for a future child??
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