I was recently invited to go to our local Babies R Us to "preview" the new Safety 1st car seat. It was on the same day as Joseph's birthday and so I didn't go. They still sent me a lovely (and enormous) gift basket filled with Safety 1st products. Most of them are for smaller babies - it had a baby bath, a cradle cap solutions kit, a baby view mirror, a temperature-checking device for the tub, a Baby on Board sign, a bottle cooler lunch bag thing and then (randomly) a toddler bike helmet among other things. I was going to just do a giveaway here on the old blogaroo for you locals.
But when Brian got home last night, he asked if he could have it. A friend of his at work is about to bring home his baby boy from the hospital. This wee baby was premature and has spent his entire life in NICU. They've nearly lost him more times than Brian can remember and he has spent a lot of time praying for this man and covering his shifts and even going to the hospital to visit them both. There is a bit of a situation between the dad and the mother so it's not an easy or straight-forward situation. But the wee boy is well enough to go home. So Brian wanted to take the stuff to his friend and give it to him. Even the Cars toddler bike helmet.
And I hope you don't mind, but I said that was just fine.
(As a note, I received no compensation, monetary, car seat or otherwise from Safety 1st nor did they require me to mention anything about this on my blog in exchange for the gift basket. I just occasionally get invitations from PR folks to attend these types of events in hopes that I will be so dazzled that I must mention it on my blog.)
