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Baby Sprinkle

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We will travel to Brookings, SD early next month for a Baby Sprinkle, a smaller sized Baby Shower that is being put on by friends of our son and dil who are expecting their second child in August.

I never heard the term Baby Sprinkle before, but I gather it is now the term for used when someone already has had a child and doesn’t need as many things as first time parents do. Son and dil are pretty well stocked with equipment from the birth of their first child seven years ago. We are so happy for them.

I have some baby afghans crocheted by my maternal grandmother from when our children were born and I plan to bring them, as well some other things I have in a cedar chest like family christening outfits. It will be fun.

What are some new terms or phrases you have encountered lately? What would you bring as a gift to a baby shower or sprinkle?

29 thoughts on “Baby Sprinkle”

  1. I’ve never heard the term “baby sprinkle” either. The image it brings to mind is of a new father diapering a baby boy for the first time… 😆

    “Gender reveal” party is new to me. I know it’s not new anymore, but I don’t remember anyone having those when I was younger. There is a tendency to make nouns out of verbs and vice versa, which always makes me a little twitchy. Like “gifting.” It’s everywhere suddenly. Nobody bothers to “give” anything anymore. I always thought “gifting” was more special, like creating an endowment or bequeathing something, and had to do with things of higher value. Help me if I’m wrong. “Gifting” things all of the time makes me crazy. We used to give gifts at Christmas, not gift gifts. I don’t get it.

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    1. 60 years ago an English professor was decrying switching nouns to verbs and vice Versa. Later a student in researching something else found a paper in which a man identified several verbs Shakespeare had created out of other parts of speech.

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        1. I’ve worked really hard the last ten years to let go of my problem with verbing. Language has always changed and morphed – but it’s been hard for me. Bill Bryson’s >i>The Mother Tongue helped me quite a bit.

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      1. A joke for the language folks
        The three great guides to style:
        Chicago manual of Style
        Modern Language Assn. Publishes the PMLA
        Yes, American Psychological Association does as well

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        1. MLA! I’m so pleased I got that! All those English classes I’ve taken at the college. We did MLA…what version are they up to now? Nine as of 2021.

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        2. I suspected it had to do with style guides but the Chicago Manual was the only one of the three with which I was familiar.

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        3. Oh yes, the APA style manual. I am afraid I don’t have a current version. I only needed it writing my doctoral dissertation.

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  5. I object to most of the recently concocted portmanteaus, but for some reason I am particularly repelled by “webinar” and refuse to “attend” any such events.

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  6. Rise and Shine, Baboons,

    Well, this is lovely news to have on a fine Spring day! Congratulations to all of you in the family.

    Meanwhile, life here in the Turtle Lane of recovery is proceeding slowly, but steadily. This morning I was up and around for nearly 3 hours, having prepared my own breakfast. I then sat in the “Medical Recliner” AKA the ejector seat, to eat it. That was followed by another big victory–I got myself dressed. This is exciting stuff. Now I will be ready for a nap after writing this. Actually, when you think of what was done to this poor body on Monday, it is a miracle that I can move or function at all. The really good news is that I discontinued all pain medications yesterday. Yeah. While necessary for a time, the side effects are so unpleasant.

    I would purchase son and DIL diapers or a diaper service, depending on what they want and gift certificates to Target or Costco (also depending on what is available to them).

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    1. Yay You!

      We started with a cloth diaper service when our son was born. It was great and the clean fresh diapers smelled SO GOOD! The company sold and the next owner wasn’t so great. We quit when daughter was born… but man, those disposable diapers never disappear…

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      1. It is easy to forget there is a middle ground between washing and folding all your own cloth diapers and the wasteland of disposable diapers. And that is a perfect gift to parents.

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        1. Three months of diaper service for twin girls was my gift to the daughter of one of my neighbors. Jessica already had a three year old boy, and I figured she and her husband already had their hands full. Four years later, she still talks about that gift as a life saver.

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  7. Utilize. A state representative I once knew like all politicians loved to utilize things. I asked him if he utilized a crescent (he was a shop teacher) or if he utilized the toilet. He knew it was some sort of joke on him but he could not figure it out.
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  10. My go-to baby gift is always Pat the Bunny. Even it it’s a second shower or sprinkle, the first book has probably been loved to death, so a new version is always good!

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