First gifts for Brendan

Dylan and Kelly have a favorite baby store located in Eastown, called "Hopscotch." They registered gifts for baby Brendan there, so yesterday I went over to check out their registry. I love buying baby gifts no matter what, but even more especially for my grandbabies. I almost never buy clothing because ... I like toys better! Besides, Brendan has received so many beautiful outfits. Kelly's friends have knitted sweaters and crocheted amazing hats. He has homemade blankets and buntings galore. But can a baby ever have enough toys?!!

There was some pretty unique stuff on this registry! Since Dylan has a fascination with languages, and has studied quite a few of them, he had baby Brendan registered for Greek blocks, German blocks, French blocks, and even hieroglyphic blocks! The hieroglyphic ones were on clearance yesterday, and I had tucked them under my arm thinking that I might just perhaps purchase them ... but I kept looking and looking at the indecipherable scribble all over the blocks and I just could NOT buy them! So I settled on the plain old boring ENGLISH blocks instead.

This is Brendan listening to me explain that there are wonderful surprises inside of this totally recyclable cloth bag ...
I think my favorite gift (and I hope it becomes Brendan's too) is this cloth covering (on the left of the picture above) for a 12" balloon ~ let me explain! There is an opening in this cloth covering, the balloon is inserted, inflated, and then tucked inside, making a kind of beach ball that is completely washable. And when the balloon gets old, you just replace it with another one. How easy is that? And see the little wooden spinner top? We got it spinning for Brendan and he seemed to enjoy watching it go around, although it's difficult to say if he could really focus his eyes yet.
And ... what baby gift would be complete without FINGER PUPPETS?!!! A duck, pig, and frog made out of velour! :)
But the very best part of the visit was getting to hold Brendan, cuddle up with him, and just enjoy looking at his precious face. He decidedly does NOT like to be where he cannot SEE everything ... so if he is held UP, he stays pretty contented.
But I finally had to give him back to the parents ... he follows their voices, and definitely adores them.
Isn't this beautiful of Kelly?

Brendan definitely knows his mama's voice. I think she is his favorite!
I love this hat! It has a matching bunting too. It was so sweet to watch him drift off to sleep while sucking on my finger.

More pictures later ...