1. Moosey pants from Baby Gap. I bought them for $7 online. I like to wait for their online sales during the week! I love the quality of Gap but will only shop there with a good discount 🙂
2. Trapper bear hat!
3. Cable Knit Sweater Vest. aka John Shea’s sweet old man vest. It is really precious.
4. Christmas jammies
5. Sweet cable knit romper
6. Bear Stays Up For Christmas…. Bear Snores On is one of our favorites! Aunt Jules & Uncle Patrick got it for John and I’ve read it so many times now I have it memorized. Uncle Mikey has all the voices down and made me laugh so darn hard every time he read it outloud this summer, so I’m going to bring this one with us for Christmas. Get your voices ready, Mikey Bear.
7. Winter/Christmas onesies. With the online discount earlier this week they were $15 for the three.
Also, I remember loving this book as a kid at Christmas time!
Before becoming a Mother, I never imagined the cute clothes out there for little boys. I always thought that was reserved for girls. Most of the time my toddler baby is running wild in just a diaper or is covered in dirt from head to toe (which I love about him!) but that never seems to stop me from finding him a cute outfit even if I know it’s going to be quickly shredded at the knees and covered in stains. I shop for him far more than I do myself, and I happen to love shopping! I’ve had his Christmas present picked out for about two months now, ha. Also, we started in on the Christmas spirit in our house early this year. I don’t know about you, but every year it seems like it goes too fast and with Thanksgiving so late, I’ve had Christmas music on and have changed out pumpkins for delicious smelling garlands. We won’t forget Thanksgiving, and Easter has my heart, but I feel like you can never start getting excited too early about something so important as Christmas! Do you agree, or are you waiting until after Thanksgiving?!
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I'm Nicholle. I love food. says
OH GOSH. The moose pants!! Ayden must own these! Thank you for the idea for the Christmas book, too. I've been wanting to get a Christmas book for him and love this idea =) XO!
Amanda Marshall says
They are even cuter on!!
Tim and Lanna Britt says
What a fun collection of items! I totally agree on Christmas timing. I think it's having a little one to get excited about — I couldn't wait! Put Trey in the stripey hanna andersson PJs for first time last night. CUTE overload! And I've been listening to Christmas music for a week already 😉
SANTA… I KNOW HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
love, lanneybear
Amanda Marshall says
Haha yes total cute overload. Don't hate me but I've been listening to Christmas music since the day after halloween…..
Francine says
That hat! I love it! We always wait until after Thanksgiving for Christmas music/decorations, but stretch it out into January, until the feast of the Epiphany. We like to keep Christmas going during the 12 days after, and keep celebrating, instead of taking everything down on Dec 26. It's so much more fun to get into the spirit of everything now that I'm a parent that it can be hard to wait until after Thanksgiving, though!
Amanda Marshall says
Yes, love keeping everything up until Epiphany! I couldn't agree more – it's incredible how much the Christmas spirit doubles once you have children!
Julie says
ha – so glad john loves bear as much as we do! (i'll probably still know it by heart years from now.) we are trying to focus on thankfulness this month – i so much want to cultivate hearts that are content and grateful! and that we can take that with us into next month so we don't ruin our christmas with greedy attitutes. bleh. we are mostly waiting for our music and everything, but everyone is enjoying the anticipation, i think. =) i can't wait for christmas jammies!
Amanda Marshall says
amen sister.