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My best friend Jill and her husband had their baby on Tuesday night. It’s a Boy!! Sweet baby boy James. He is now the youngest of three siblings. I went to spend some time with Jill and James last night. 

He is so cute! Don’t you agree??

My mom always told me that it was just as important to give the baby’s siblings a new present as it was to give the baby. That the siblings are the ones who have to make adjustments to this new person in their life and if you give them presents at a time when their new sibling is receiving many they don’t feel slighted. When Jill’s middle son Robert was born (my lovable Godson) I only had to buy for one sibling, Jill's daughter Jules (along with Robert of course). Easy enough, I got her a cabbage patch baby doll. But now I was trying to shop for Jules and Robert (and James) and I wanted their gifts to be similar and something that would say we are happy we have a new brother. I found tee shirts at Carters and light up buttons at the party store that said “I’m the big sister” and “I’m the big brother” and put them together with special notes to each of them telling them what a good brother and sister they will be to their new baby brother. I rolled the tee shirts into the notes and into tissue and used the button as the tag. I think they came out pretty cute.

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Do you give gifts to the other siblings or just the baby? What are some gifts you like to give?