Giveaway: $150 Apple Park Gift card
Mazzy and Harlow have two new baby friends— their one month-old cousin Neve (second child of my sister) and Baby Arami (five month-old first child to their longtime nanny Ruth).
Since Neve is brand new, the girls haven’t held her yet but they talk about their baby cousin all the time.
“That’s my favorite baby!” Harlow said when I showed her a photo of Neve my sister texted the other day.
“What about Arami?” Mazzy asked.
“That’s my other favorite baby!” Harlow responded.
Neve and Arami both showed up at Harlow’s 3rd birthday party last week (still have to post about that!) and it was fun seeing the girls get excited about their favorite babies being all in one place.
Neve spent the majority of the time nuzzled against Ya-ya’s shoulder. (We call my sister Dr. B around here, but just so you guys know, Mazzy and Harlow have always called her Ya-ya.)
Arami is a few months older and the girls had quite a bit of fun taking turns with her sitting on their laps.
Understandably, Arami was not so sure how she felt about being passed around like a football.
The big joke was that Arami is already almost bigger than Harlow.
I love having two new baby girls in our lives, because now I have two good homes to hand down all of Mazzy and Harlow’s old stuff.
Neve’s big brother Jack sleeps in Mazzy’s old toddler bed and Arami sleeps in Mazzy and Harlow’s old crib. We’ve been storing a lot of Mazzy and Harlow’s old clothes at my mom’s house and she’ll bring bags over to my sister, so I’m always surprised by what Neve is wearing when I go over there.
I recognize those pajamas!
Oh, my god, that pink sweater! Mazzy wore that thing almost every day!
It makes it a lot easier to get rid of Harlow’s things when I know they are going to a place I might see them again. Sometimes, Mazzy and Harlow recognize their things too.
“That’s my dress!” Mazzy cried when she saw a recent picture of Neve dressed up for a wedding.
“Yes, Mazzy. You wore that when you were nine days old— it doesn’t fit anymore!”
Neve and Arami have also been the lucky recipients of some baby goodies from Apple Park who sent them each a care package filled with adorable blankies, swaddles, booties, rattles, onesies and plush toys.
Apple Park has been one of my favorite baby brands ever since they sent Mazzy and Harlow a care package when we bought our home out east. They also have given Mazzy and Harlow the adorable backpacks they’ve been toting around for years. Harlow’s favorite bunny pajamas are Apple Park too.
Apple Park believes every baby deserves to be surrounded by the finest organic products which aren’t just soft and cuddly, but safe and good for the environment too.
Here’s Arami with a Belle the Cow plush, a matching rattle, a farm girl onesie and a pink polka dot blankie.
Isn’t she adorable?
Apple Park’s polyester-free designs revolve around animal friends like the Picnic Pals, the Farm Buddies and the Playground Pals which have become familiar characters in our home, thanks to both the plush toys and the accompanying books. Harlow sleeps with her ballerina mouse every night and Mazzy is a big fan of her Picnic Pal bunny.
We actually gave Jack (Neve’s older brother) the Boxer Dog plush over the summer and Ya-ya tells me it is now Jack’s favorite thing to sleep with at night.
That’s the great thing about giving Apple Park as a baby shower gift— you have a very good chance of gifting something that will become that new baby’s closest companion.
I went over Ya-ya’s house to get a few photos of Neve and it was so hard to get a photo because her brother Jack kept leaning down to kiss her.
How classic is this?
Here’s Neve with a Penny the Pig plush, a matching rattle, the farm girl grey striped onesie and matching blanket.
And here she is with the organic patterned blankie.
Which one will Neve ultimately choose as her favorite? The owl? Penny the Pig? Maybe both?
Time will tell. Lord knows when your baby picks a favorite lovie, there is no turning back.
GIVEAWAY: $150 Apple Park gift card to one lucky winner!
To enter, just visit Apple Park and post the link to your favorite product in the comments below.
Winner will be chosen randomly and announced on December 14, 2015.
WINNER UPDATE:
Congrats to Abby Biro!
Special Offer:
To receive 20% off your Apple Park purchase, use code MSSB20. Offer valid until 12/13. Shop here.
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This post was sponsored by Apple Park, but all thoughts and opinions are my own.
I love the bunny booties: http://www.applepark.com/baby-toys/organic-patterned-booties-bunny.html
Well, everything is adorable and I want it all, but poncho the pony is super cute: http://www.applepark.com/poncho-the-pony.html
Adorable! 🙂 And Neve looks a lot like her big cousin. Looking at these pictures of her reminds me of when I started reading your blog and Mazzy was so wee.
Too many cute things to choose from, but my son would love this right now.
http://www.applepark.com/baby-toys/musical-toys/picnic-pal-plush-toy-640.html
Hard to choose one favorite!
http://www.applepark.com/organic-mushroom-rattles-pink-floral-1061.html
The snail in the prize pack was a close second!
My baby would love this! He hasn’t “selected” his lovie yet!
http://www.applepark.com/organic-plush-farm-buddies/organic-plush/organic-farm-plush-boxer-dog.html
I love the plush monkey! Would love to have one for my little monkey, arriving in April! http://www.applepark.com/baby-toys/plush/monkey-picnic-pal-plush-toy.html
http://www.applepark.com/blankets-blankies/blankies-lovies/organic-patterned-blankies-owl-885.html
Owl patterned blankie – so adorable!
My favorite clothing item to buy for my three year old daughter are pjs so the organic cotton lambys are my definitely my faves: http://www.applepark.com/layette-pjs/organic-cotton-pjs/organic-cotton-picnic-pal-pyjamas-monkey-1006.html
And both of those tiny babes are super adorable! Makes me miss having one at my house! 🙂
http://www.applepark.com/organic-plush-farm-buddies/organic-plush/catnap-kitty-plush.html
Since my baby will be born next year, which is the year of the monkey, I love this Monkey Picnic Pal Blankie http://www.applepark.com/blankets-blankies/blankies-lovies/picnic-pal-plush-toy-666.html
I have a friend about to have a baby in Feb and I know this would be her favorite as well as mine! http://www.applepark.com/blankets-blankies/organic-patterned-blankies-bat.html
plush fox! 🙂
http://www.applepark.com/baby-toys/plush/playground-pals-plush-fox.html
In the UK so not eligible for winning anything, but just to say I totally get the handdown thing. After a boy then a girl we kept everything for #3…. boy. So it was time to part with the girl stuff. Harder than I was expecting. Some bits have gone to a neighbour and I love seeing my daughter’s things on a new face – joy I wasn’t expecting and slooooooowly clearing out the loft for an extra bedroom. Interesting to see how someone else matches up things differently too!
So much cuteness in one place! Bu
Love the Bunny Picnic Pal in the Crate! http://www.applepark.com/baby-toys/plush/picnic-pal-plush-toy-710.html
This looks great:
http://www.applepark.com/organic-plush-farm-buddies/organic-blankies/frenchy-fox-905.html
I’m a sucker for anything with owls but this bat was too cute to pass up:
http://www.applepark.com/blankets-blankies/blankies-lovies/organic-patterned-blankies-bat.html
My best friend’s due at the end of December and I know she’d love this: http://www.applepark.com/playground-pals-plush-fox.html
The monkey PJs are adorable! http://www.applepark.com/layette-pjs/organic-cotton-pjs/organic-cotton-picnic-pal-pyjamas-monkey.html
And all adorable babies are Ya-Ya’s and Ruth’s 🙂
The Cubby Bear plush mat is my favorite! But I am also loving the bat lunchbox and backpack!
oops! Here is the link:
http://www.applepark.com/baby-toys/play-mats/cubby-mat.html
http://www.applepark.com/backpacks-lunchpacks/backpacks/preschool-backpacks-from-100-recycled-fabrics-who-purple.html
We love apple park too! We would love this bath wrap! http://www.applepark.com/toddler-bath-wraps-butterfly.html
Favorite would be the backpack. My daughter is suddenly into (I mean really into) pink.
http://www.applepark.com/backpacks-lunchpacks/backpacks/preschool-backpacks-from-100-recycled-fabrics-bunny.html
I love the patterned bunny! My 12 week old needs a lovey!
http://www.applepark.com/organic-patterned-bunnies-943.html
A little too big for now, but how cute is this bat backpack! http://www.applepark.com/gifts/celebrity-favorites/backpacks-from-100-recycled-fabrics-bat.html
Hopefully there are still some hand me downs left :-).
http://www.applepark.com/toddler-bath-wraps-bee.html
Bee Toddler towel! My 21mo old is 95% for height and those infant towels aren’t cutting it anymore!
Love the bunny! Thank you!
http://www.applepark.com/picnic-pal-plush-toy-415.html
Love the monkey backpack! We call our daughter, Monkey and she is at that age where she likes to store her secret treasures and carry them around. Would love this!
http://www.applepark.com/backpacks-lunchpacks/backpacks/preschool-backpacks-from-100-recycled-fabrics-monkey.html
Everything is so cute! I can see why it’s a favorite brand of yours. I think I would pick the lamb booties.
http://www.applepark.com/accessories/booties/organic-patterned-booties-bunny-925.html
The bat backpack! http://www.applepark.com/backpacks-lunchpacks/backpacks/backpacks-from-100-recycled-fabrics-bat.html My two-year-old needs a backpack to haul around toys when we go places and he’s been really into bats lately.
Those smiley bat booties are ridiculously cute! http://www.applepark.com/baby-toys/organic-patterned-booties-bunny-993.html
Love the little snails!
http://www.applepark.com/baby-toys/activity-toys/pink-floral-print-snail.html
OMG- the snail is just too cute- because its a snail!
http://www.applepark.com/yellow-velour-snail.html
❤️❤️
http://www.applepark.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/300x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/t/m/tm369.jpg
how beautiful the babies are! a tight hug and lots of love for them. Arami just remind me my own angel!
I love all the soft jammies!
http://www.applepark.com/layette-pjs.html
I really like the cubby toddler bath wrap.
The babies are precious. My favorite product is the http://www.applepark.com/blankets-blankies/luxury-stroller-blankets/picnic-pal-plush-toy-478.html
Such cute stuff!
http://www.applepark.com/blankets-blankies/blankies-lovies/who-the-owl-gift-set-black.html
My daughter loves owls and I know she would wear the owl backpack all the time!
http://www.applepark.com/backpacks-lunchpacks/backpacks/preschool-backpacks-from-100-recycled-fabrics-who-white.html
Fox!!!
http://www.applepark.com/organic-plush-farm-buddies/frenchy-fox.html
I love the plush squirrel!!
http://www.applepark.com/squirrel-woodland-pal-plush-toy.html
We have this for our newest addition who is 1 week old tomorrow (Thanksgiving). It’s adorable!
http://www.applepark.com/organic-plush-farm-buddies/organic-plush/penny-the-pig-plush.html
I love the play mats! They look so comfy and soft and this one would match our little guys room.
http://www.applepark.com/baby-toys/play-mats/flower-mat-yellow-petal-caterpillar-embroidery.html
I love the Apple Park books that come with a plush toy.
http://www.applepark.com/accessories/books/picnic-pal-plush-toy-528.html
I LOVE this pig. My family has a thing for piggies 🙂
http://www.applepark.com/organic-plush-farm-buddies/organic-plush/penny-the-pig-plush.html
The perfect lovie! I just can’t get enough of this organic bunny blankie http://www.applepark.com/organic-patterned-blankies.html
I am completely enamored with the crawling teething toys. They’re on my gift list for all the babies in my life. But, who wouldn’t want a surfer chick?!? Ok, maybe it’s for those of us out here on the west coast.
http://www.applepark.com/surfer-chick-plush.html
http://www.applepark.com/picnic-pal-plush-toy-12770.html so sweet 🙂
http://www.applepark.com/organic-plush-farm-buddies/organic-plush/ballerina-mouse-plush-835.html
So sweet that the girls have “favorite babies,” and Jack is so smitten with his baby sister!
I love the bunny blankie! http://www.applepark.com/blankets-blankies/blankies-lovies/picnic-pal-plush-toy-660.html
We love apple park! We just have a couple of things, but they are some of my daughter’s favorites!
I would love to get her a soft rattle like this bunny, she is not a huge fan of the hard plastic toys.
http://www.applepark.com/baby-toys/rattles/organic-patterned-rattles-bunny.html
I love Apple Park! I bought an owl towel for my toddler after you posted about them about a year and a half ago. Now my baby is graduating to a toddler towel (sniff, sniff), so he needs one, too! I think the bear this time! http://www.applepark.com/accessories/bath/toddler-bath-wraps.html
I’m loving this cute turtle, aw!!! ☺ ☺
http://www.applepark.com/blue-musical-turtle.html
http://www.applepark.com/blankets-blankies/blankies-lovies/organic-patterned-blankies-owl.html
Owls were my grandmother’s favorite. This would be perfect for the next family baby due in July!
http://www.applepark.com/hooded-infant-towels-who.html
http://www.applepark.com/gifts/gifts-under-25/organic-patterned-booties-bunny-918.html
Hope I did the link right! I love these booties because for some reason I can’t remember we used to call my BFF’s twin babies the baby bats when they were first born, and those adorable booties reminded me of that. Love having a place to buy organic toys for those babies!
My favorite is either the playground pals fox or panda. They are both so cute.
Everything is way too cute..but I would choose this for my little one: http://www.applepark.com/blankets-blankies/blankies-lovies/organic-patterned-blankies-owl-886.html
I love the frenchy fox plush! http://www.applepark.com/organic-plush-farm-buddies/organic-plush/frenchy-fox.html
http://www.applepark.com/cubby-mat.html
Love these: http://www.applepark.com/organic-patterned-booties-bunny-1274.html
Need the cubbie backpack!
http://www.applepark.com/backpacks-lunchpacks/backpacks/preschool-backpacks-from-100-recycled-fabrics-cubby.html
Those babies are adorable! I love the toddler bath wraps. My kids love running around in hooded bath towels and the owl is so cute! http://www.applepark.com/toddler-bath-wraps-who.html
Love the owl lovey!
http://www.applepark.com/blankets-blankies/blankies-lovies/picnic-pal-plush-toy-671.html
Too cute!
http://www.applepark.com/backpacks-lunchpacks/backpacks/preschool-backpacks-from-100-recycled-fabrics-who-purple.html
So hard to choose! http://www.applepark.com/organic-plush-farm-buddies/organic-plush/pork-chop-plush.html
The plush blue turtle is beyond adorable!!
I forgot to post the link in the comment section…http://WWW.APPLEPARK.COM/BLUE-TURTLE.HTML
All of their products are cute, but I love the bat backpack!
You see owls and bears a lot, but not bats: http://www.applepark.com/backpacks-lunchpacks/backpacks/backpacks-from-100-recycled-fabrics-bat.html
I love the bright pink bunny
http://www.applepark.com/baby-toys/plush/organic-patterned-bunnies-850.html
I love the picnic pals!
http://www.applepark.com/picnic-pal-plush-toy-12740.html
Ahhhh I think the photos are lovely!! I’m so jealous, I never have the confidence to ask the lifeguards at our pool if I can take photos – we use a hotel swimming pool so its always pretty full and they’re so strict on the camera rules!
Love these jammies !! http://www.applepark.com/layette-pjs/organic-cotton-pjs/organic-cotton-picnic-pal-pyjamas-monkey-1005.html
So many choices! So much adorableness! Choosing one thing was ridiculously hard. But I finally settled on the bat slippers (and I normally don’t like bats!!!) http://www.applepark.com/baby-toys/organic-patterned-booties-bunny-993.html. (I don’t know why the addy says bunny, I was looking at the bats!)
http://www.applepark.com/baby-toys/plush/playground-pals-plush-fox.html
http://www.applepark.com/who-the-owl-gift-set-navy.html
My best friend is pregnant with her first baby..she would LOVE LOVE LOVE everything in this shop! She is obsessed with woodland creatures but mainly owls…we will not know what the little one is till they have the baby so I’d get this one for them!
Pork chop! Irony AND kid’s toys?! It doesn’t get much cuter!
http://www.applepark.com/pork-chop-plush.html
Love, love, love these Picnic Pals blocks for my little guy!
http://www.applepark.com/baby-toys/activity-toys/green-velour-snail.html
My little guy loves plush toys and anything green! This snail is so cute!
Love the stroller blankets!
http://www.applepark.com/blankets-blankies/luxury-stroller-blankets.html
We are super into anything plush and soft these days! ????
http://www.applepark.com/organic-plush-farm-buddies/organic-plush/frenchy-fox-903.html
http://www.applepark.com/organic-farm-plush-boxer-dog.html
My oldest son (2 in March) LOVES dogs so I know he would never put this dog down. I would love anything from Apple Park for my other son (due on Christmas!)!
http://www.applepark.com/baby-toys/organic-patterned-rattles-owl-912.html
Love that fox.
http://www.applepark.com/organic-plush-farm-buddies/organic-plush/frenchy-fox.html
I loooove all the the back packs! And basically everything!
http://www.applepark.com/blankets-blankies/blankies-lovies/organic-patterned-blankies-805.html – LOVE!
This is so cute:
http://www.applepark.com/catalog/product/view/id/452/s/picnic-pal-plush-toy/category/4/
Love the soft blocks!
http://www.applepark.com/woodland-soft-blocks.html
My daughter would LOVE this: http://www.applepark.com/purple-musical-turtle.html
I love the pj’s!
http://www.applepark.com/layette-pjs/organic-cotton-pjs.html
http://www.applepark.com/gifts/gifts-under-50/picnic-pal-plush-toy.html
Lambie Picnic Pal… Adorable
I love these jammies http://www.applepark.com/gifts/celebrity-favorites/organic-cotton-picnic-pal-pyjamas-monkey.html
I love this little plush. It’s been hard for big sister to give up some of her toys to 3 days old baby brother. This would look so cute in his room!! http://www.applepark.com/organic-plush-farm-buddies/organic-plush.html
http://www.applepark.com/layette-pjs/organic-cotton-pjs.html
The woodland plushes are definitely the cutest things ever!!
http://www.applepark.com/baby-toys/plush/fawn-woodland-pal-plush-toy.html
Everythign is adorable but the Bunny Stroller Buddy Blanket is my favorite!!
http://www.applepark.com/picnic-pal-plush-toy-12772.html
I love the toddler bath wrap.
http://www.applepark.com/gifts/gifts-for-boys/toddler-bath-wraps.html