{"id":71,"date":"2010-10-26T18:18:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T01:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bellabambinidesign.com\/?p=71"},"modified":"2010-11-15T20:10:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T04:10:46","slug":"goodnight-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bellabambinidesign.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/goodnight-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"goodnight moon…"},"content":{"rendered":"

About a year ago I received an invitation to a\u00a0baby shower<\/strong> for one of my best friend’s sisters. Of course the invites were absolutely adorable and I could not wait to take advantage of this opportunity for one of my favorite pastimes – shopping! Armed with r<\/strong>egistry list<\/strong> in-hand, it didn’t take long for my brain to go into overload… so many choices! Although I was perfectly capable of picking something off of the list, finding the corresponding item on the shelf, and delivering it to the shower in baby-themed wrapping and a big tulle bow nothing was jumping out at me saying, “Pick me, I’m the perfect gift!” I was caught between the practical (baby monitor, burp cloths, diapers) and the practically perfect (have you seen all the adorable outfits there are to choose from?!).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I wandered around the store for a little while up and down aisles, in and out of rounders filled with the most irresistible articles of clothing. Then, I saw the familiar green and orange cover of Goodnight Moon<\/a>. <\/strong>Remembering how many times I had read that book to my younger sister when she little, I picked it up and began flipping through the pages. A light bulb went on… books! I finally decided on my gift – copies of Goodnight Moon, Where the Wild Things Are<\/a><\/strong> (one of my younger brother’s favs), and The Velveteen Rabbit<\/strong><\/a>. Then I added some less exciting (however more necessary) items off of their registry (baby 1st aid kit, bottles, burp cloths, etc) and I had a shower gift I was excited about! I was able to help build baby’s library with books I had loved growing up plus give the parents-to-be some very practical items<\/strong> that didn’t sound like glamorous gifts on their own.<\/p>\n

Since then, I always try to include some of my favorite children’s books <\/strong>with a shower gift. Although it’s so tempting to buy one of the zillions of to-die-for miniature ensembles for baby, it’s just as satisfying to know that mom, dad, and baby will be sharing many moments over the years enjoying the stories in these books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About a year ago I received an invitation to a\u00a0baby shower for one of my best friend’s sisters. Of course the invites were absolutely adorable and I could not wait to take advantage of this opportunity for one of my … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellabambinidesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellabambinidesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellabambinidesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellabambinidesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellabambinidesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/bellabambinidesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"http:\/\/bellabambinidesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellabambinidesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellabambinidesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellabambinidesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}