June
2008
PSA: Shopping Guide
If you’re not planning on buying Dorrie anything for her birthday, and by no means is anyone obligated to do so, you can safely ignore this message.
If you do want to get her a gift, Dorrie will not turn it down. She’s greedy that way. But for some categories of gift she has some slightly specific requirements, so I thought it might be a good idea to list them.
Clothing: Dorrie is currently wearing the size of 6-9M, and she is starting to fill those out pretty well. Please do not get her anything smaller than 9-12M, and if you’re looking at something for the winter, adjust upward appropriately. Thus far she has stuck pretty well to her adjusted age in sizes, so you can use her due date of 11/3 to figure out how old she will be at a given time.
In addition, please avoid the combination of zippers and feet when making purchases of clothing. Dorrie has a lot of tubes and wires and they cannot come out a zippered and footed outfit. Her legs are a bit shorter than the rest of her, but her bottom is big, so buying pants in a size smaller doesn’t work out very well. For that reason dresses and suits with no or short legs will fit her best.
Dorrie is a very hot baby. She gets overheated very easily if she’s put into those lovely plush sleepers that are so tempting and cute.
Toys: If there’s interest, I can make an Amazon wish list, but otherwise I think babies are easy to shop for in terms of toys.
Books: We love books. If you think we might already have a book, you can ask me (or see above re: wish list)