The ultimate baby shower gift!

I am always so hesitant as to what to buy people for baby showers. Everyone's first instinct is to buy clothes but from my own personal experience with three baby showers for Connor I got so many clothes he never even got through 1/3 of his newborn or 0-3 clothes before he outgrew them. Then we were stuck with absolutely nothing when he got into the 3-6 and even less with 6-9, so my past baby shower gift buying techniques have totally changed now.

When I'm putting together a basket of baby shower items for people now I try to include a few clothing items though I try to either find something that will go in any season in bigger sizes, a few necessity items (towels, diapers, baby wash, ect), and then most importantly something they can use well into the toddler years... most importantly a toy, something with some function (a diaper supplies basket), or a little something for mom. Up till now I've yet to find all of these things in one easy to give already made gift basket.

I had been eying the Baby Aspen - Welcome to the World gift basket for some time, and I was really attracted to the wagon but for some odd reason I kept thinking that the wagon was "novelty" sized and kept passing it over. When the great ladies over at Baby Aspen contacted me to do a review I jumped at the chance to check out the wagon in closer detail and I am SO glad I did! Its the perfect baby shower gift as it includes an entire layette including : 1 towel, 1 blanket, 1 gown, 1 long sleeved onesie, 1 short sleeved onesie, 1 bib, 1 burp cloth, 1 wash cloth, and a pair of adorable little booties. The wagons and layette are available in pink or blue and the clothing fits babies 0-6m.

The clothing is actually very well made and if your unsure of the sex of the baby I would go with the blue as the clothing itself is white trimmed in blue and though some parents are really stuck on this pink and blue thing I think blue is equally as cute on a girl as a boy. But if you are unsure you can still go with one of their other gift sets in yellow.

The real star in this gift set is the wagon though, it will work perfectly to store all of the babies diaper supplies, display special toys, or even hold blankets in the first year but once the child is up and moving it makes the cutest toy storage. I was previously using just a plastic bin in our living room to store Connor's toys and I cannot even tell you how many times it annoyed me to see his gorgeous handmade dolls and wooden toys stuck in this old plastic bin. Now they live happily in his Baby Aspen wagon and it seriously looks like something out of a magazine. The wagon itself is very well made and though I wouldn't consider it a toy as a really rough child may break it, Connor does pull it around the living room and its great as if we want to play in another room I can just pull it along. The wheels are wooden as is the handle so with enough abuse they could break under extreme stress. If you find that you have a overly anxious toddler banging on the handle you can just unscrew it from the wagon itself and store it till later if necessary as well.

You can pick up your own Baby Aspen Welcome to the World wagon over at Baby Aspen's website.

I have a complete Baby Aspen layette gift bag to give away to one reader in blue.

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