Stuff Brady's Parents Like: Super-Thin Swaddling Blankets

It's summer, and summer in Santa Fe is hot.  (Not as hot as most of the southwest, but hot nonetheless.)  Our next-door neighbors, the source of much parenting-stuff advice, recommended these muslin baby blankets for a summer baby.  

There's only one thing they're not good for, and that's what I think of as the standard baby-blanket purpose: giving the baby something to sit on, roll around on, and look at while he plays.  (We have lots of those, and they'll probably be the subject of a different blog post.)  But they're good for just about everything else.  Number one is swaddling, and Earl already touted all of the benefits of that.  They're also a great nursing cover-up, and burp cloth, and stroller shade, and arm rest for me while I'm nursing, and arm rest for Brady for "tummy time"... and they're cute.  

Yeah, I use these a lot.  Here we are at Santa Fe's 4th of July "Pancakes on the Plaza," where we used one for almost all of the purposes listed above... Cute, don't you think?