Lovely quilt! Bright primary colored quilt would be good for either gender. I’m biased— love the bright primary colors.
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SIL was super against the Snoo. Really wanted to save me money (it was my gift to them). Then the Snoo maker had a sale with a free crib thrown in, and I got that bundle over his objections. OMG. SIL thought Snoo was the best thing ever. Bebe slept like a log.. until the next feeding, of course. The kids lent the Snoo to daughter’s school mate and then sold it recouping 70% of what I paid. They still use the freebie crib!
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Buy a few things that are ‘not expensive enough’ or go in with someone on something more expensive. Or get something small and cash/gift card.
Cash is invaluable with a new baby—saving it towards ed expenses, child care, meals delivered, groceries delivered, someone to clean house, etc.
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D1 bought a Snoo for GD1 and then sold it for 90% of what she paid. For GD2 her firm rented one for her as part of benefits. GD1 used it close to 4 months, but GD2 was fine without it after 10 weeks.
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Both twins love their princess dresses and love getting their finger and toes nails painted. So does GS (age 2). He loves to dress up as Moana and when mom does the twin’s nails, he gets his done too. Right now he’s rocking red fingers and toes nails with tiny fox decals on his thumbs.
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I also give everyone (and I mean everyone) I know flannel baby blankets. I make them and they are easy. Often a girl baby gets 2 (I have so so many with pink and purple in them, and often the girl parents really like the boy ones or the gender neutrals one). When my daughter was born I didn’t get any blankets. Something like 25 bath sets with towel and cloth, but no blankets, so everyone gets a blanket.
The closet of blankets and quilts…
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You should sell them on Etsy.
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DD1 has these for the younger two and uses a painter kind of cover for the others. They found that they had to go to something like this because of hard to get out food stains on clothing. The kids all cooperate with having these on with messy foods/foods that stain.
We discovered that our grands never make messes with desserts. Miss M eats chocolate cake like she is teaching an etiquette class. 
Her brother is pretty good with cake, too. Once, Little Miss Mess (about 18 months. old)! was visiting us with her parents for lunch. She was waving her spoon around flicking food everywhere until her father put some ice cream in her bowl. She licked the spoon… and… you should have seen how she cleaned out that bowl without missing her mouth even a little bit.
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D1 and SIL did a gender reveal tonight for us and his parents who are visiting from Connecticut.
They are having a girl💕 We are so excited!
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I slept over at D1’s house this past weekend. I generally liked to watch news in the morning while having my coffee. GD1 woke up while I was watching news. She wanted to watch her show, but I told her that it was my turn to watch my show.
As soon as she sat down next to me, they started reporting about a fire in Queens, how 5 people died and other people were in the hospital. GD1 (4 yrs old) started saying, “Look at the fire on the house. People got killed. What does that mean?”
I quickly turned off the news and put Frozen on. Too violent for kids.
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Last Christmas, when home with the kids and parents were working, we watched a Santa Claus movie that I thought would be fine for the kids. A good outcome for that was that GD1 totally believes in Santa after she was earlier questioning her dad about Santa/North Pole, etc. However, she knows the tooth fairy is her parents. They have staged an Easter Egg hunt in the backyard, and she doesn’t question the Easter Bunny either.
When I told DD1 what we watched, she said we have to be very careful, as GD1 has sometimes had ‘nightmares’. Thankfully she had none with that movie.
Agree about any of the news - the kids will ask lots of questions and have lots of fears about these kinds of things that are in the news.
As do I.
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Re the tooth fairy - some of it is just family style. Some were horrified but I was thrilled when DS1 said, “I lost a tooth; if I stick it in the scrap book, would you please increment my college fund deposit this month by one dollar?”
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Yesterday, GD asked if the Easter Bunny is real. D asked her if thinking about the Easter Bunny makes her happy & GD said yes. D told her that’s what matters. GD said okay & went off to do something else.
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My youngest son was diagnosed with testicular cancer mid February. (very treatable). Had surgery, has had one round of chemo (3 to go). Yesterday on Easter he and my DIL shared that they are expecting a baby in October!! They found out about the pregnancy two days after his diagnosis. He had sought help with the urologist because they thought they were having secondary infertility. Their daughter will be 5 in about 2 weeks. Amazing how things go sometimes. Thank goodness he was seeking help even if it was for something else! They kept it a secret till yesterday. I had been commuting to their house every day last week as it was DGD’s spring break and my son was down and out post-chemo. They both work from home normally. They said they had a really hard time not telling me then!
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I am sorry for your son’s illness, and glad it’s very treatable. Congrats on the baby news!
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Thank you. It truly is very treatable. And I am determined to stay positive for them. They sure don’t need me being Debbie Downer. I don’t mean to sound flippant. I pray all the time. Everything points to “they caught it in time”.
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Friends with a young couple that he also had testicular cancer, around the time of her first pregnancy. They were unsure if he would be able to be fertile again, but a few years later she conceived and they now are happy parents of two kids.
Prayers and faith to lean on. As you say, caught in time hopefully, and good treatments and care for staying cancer free.
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