Baby Clothes and Baby Toys

As a relatively new parent, i have entered the world of baby gift giving at the deep end. I never knew there was such a sub-culture based around little people being born and their birthdays and  Xmas and so on. It is like a secret that all these married people with friends have been keeping from me before.

The most simple gift to give and one of the more common that you will receive are baby clothes. I  have always been surprised at how organically our baby clothing has grown and evolved as my son has gotten older. Friends and family have come out of the woodwork to donate their no longer fitting boys clothes to us.

As gifts though baby clothes are always appreciated. Because of the endless stream of hand-me-downs, few of our sons clothes are new. So the new clothes which we sometimes buy, but more often come as gifts, are the ones that are usually worn on special occasions, like birthday parties and other social events.

The other sort of gifts we enjoy giving and receiving are baby toys. Even though we often complain about having too many toys for our son, the truth is you can never have too many. Babies seem to go through this process of growing in and out of toys, and then back in again. We always have a box of the not so favorite toys, while the flavour of the month toys are strewn around the house.

We prefer the quiet toys. Too many noisy ones can drive you mad after a while. It seems like every day I leave for work i have some jingle in my head, from the ‘ABC’ song to Thomas the Tank, there is always one.

Enjoy your baby shopping and if you have a baby, enjoy him or her too!