Eventually, you’ll figure out how to feed yourself and the kid (this took us a good two months); you’ll even be brave enough to go to a restaurant, toting a small canister of baby food. This Boon food dispensing spoon looks like so much fun that I can’t wait for the days of squirt and shovel to arrive.
Best baby shower ever: friends and family each bring big trays of ziti/moussaka/meatloaf/otherwise freezable meals, with these labels describing what and how to cook them. An act of generosity second only to relieving the new parents so they can take a nap.
Every baby needs one special blanket, an artifact from her early days that can be drooled on, picnicked upon, and passed down to the next generation of babies. Luckily, I have a BFF with a talent for spinning burlap into silk; she sewed us a much-beloved quilt that my daughter prefers over her squishy duvet.
If you don’t know someone with such nimble fingers, my friend Summer, who stocks the most gorgeous items in her shop fawn&forest, has hand-selected 10 heirloom quilts from Got Me In Stitches. These exquisite pieces can hang on your wall as modern art long after your babies have found their legs and crawled away.
But in blanket form, they are so very Seinfeldian, and so very cute: what is it with all these armadillos?
Baby socks, in my experience, are a colossal waste of money.
1. They never stay on. Which means you’re always fishing them off the floor or out of the dog’s mouth.
2. They are impossible to keep track of. As in, you’ll lose at least one every time you do a load of baby laundry.
To circumvent these issues, I’m sticking with baby shoes this time around. Yes, they’re more expensive, but by the time you quantify all the baby socks you’ve tossed or lost, these little suede and fabric numbers start to look like a bargain.
