FML, distant relatives got these for my baby...

[rudetops]

I'm probably going to be slated for this, as being really ungrateful! However, those flowers are headbands

Those shoes...

I feel sooo mean, but I know they'll be expecting a nice photo of her in them on Facebook!

offendedposter, can you come back please? Barb?

Oops I feel mean now, I didn't send the presents! Not a very well thought out attempt at a jokey way of saying that the people who sent them could so easily see the pic.

I'll slink away now in shame. Sorry OP

Oh my gosh, mini heart attack.

I thought the coloured flowers were shower puffs at first glance!

Offended! We all thought there was going to be a family fall out

I agree the knitted ones are lovely.

The rest could be outgrown quickly now, but you should say thanks for it all.

Are these relatives likely to visit? If not you could take a couple of photos of your baby wearing some of the items, and send them. If they do visit, you could say that she cries when you put the headbands on so she can't wear them sadly! She could wear the 'shoes' you least dislike for the visit. If there are a few weeks until you see the relatives again you can honestly say that they have been outgrown. Sometimes it's just kinder to the relatives and she will be too big soon for bootees.

OP, I seem to remember that you mentioned you DD's unfeasibly large feet in another post. And how fast they seem to grow.

You do realise this is incredibly outing, OP?

Apart from that if I'd sent gifts for a new baby and the proud mum was putting them up for a slating on a public forum, I'd be mortified.

When they come over to visit, you can put the knitted booties on baby (they never stayed on mine for more than 5 mins btw) and arrange the flowers in your hair in a sort of pretty spanish dancer/gypsy wedding style (to show your gratitude).

They will be so pleased you like them, I'm sure you'll be inundated with more every Christmas and birthday .

next time, try

"Come back please, barb."

I'm dying!! Thanks op and offended!

I think it's sweet of them! The knitted booties are gorgeous and so retro. Accept the gifts on the spirit they were given.

Oh I like the knitted booties! The headbands though.....take a picture and send it with a "thanks!" then put them in a drawer for the rest of eternity.

What's wrong with the booties?

I don't mind having a laugh at random things on here but this is mean. A family member sent you a gift and you posted it online for everyone to mock.

Oh OP I would try and get this thread deleted it's really outing and imagine if offended had really been barb!!!!

Booties yeah, but I loathe those headbands. When DD was little I'd take her to baby group and see all these little bald babies with stupid great flower things stuck to their heads so that they wouldn't be "mistaken for boys".

I agree this is so mean spirited. I would be gutted if a family member made fun of a gift I sent on such a public forum

We have the same sofa!

The knitted ones are cute.

The others are awful, as are the flower things.

However, half the stuff people post about in 'Style & Beauty' is vile too, so each to their own!

You definitely need photos of DD in them - ideal for her 18th party 😬

I hated doing things like this with my DD, I just wanted to dress her my way and I had mil bringing me crap from her extended family and people she works with.
Then texting me 'oh so and so hasn't seen dd in that but of crap yet can you email me a picture'

NO!

You are not alone!

I had a relative on DH's side knit a cardie for did that was practically neon! Highlighter pink, yellow, green & blue. If it hadn't have been in those colours, she'd have worn it regularly, however, I took a photo of her wearing it, sent it with a thank you card and it never saw the light of day until it went to the charity shop when she was 2 & it was safe to let it go!!

I love the booties

Barb?

I'm going to start saying this in rl!

I'm pretty sure I had booties like the yellow ones when I was a baby in the 80s. I think they're great, and the knitted show ones too! DD had some lovely hand knitted booties from some friends and I was so afraid of losing them when she was in the sling - if you've got some free ones that you're not bothered about losing then put them over some socks and free yourself from feeling her feet every few seconds!

I'm not into the headbands, but if they're not uncomfortable I would do it for a photo and send it to them. I spend half my life putting hats back on DD when it's cold or sunny so they're my idea of hell.

Haha...how sad am I? Got really excited there when I thought the op had been caught out by her family member!!