Beautiful Bumble Bells
As a mom, I am always fascinated with cultural differences in parenting.
In Laos, there isn’t a mind-numbing variety of “must-have” baby items like in the U.S. In fact, when Jojo was a four months old, his first car journey in Laos drew a crowd of neighbors.
As we were getting ready to leave, my neighbor said, “How are you going to hold the baby AND drive?” So, I showed her how Jojo had his own special safety seat for riding in the car. She promptly called out to the whole neighborhood, “Hey, come look at this! Jonas has his own special seat!”
I have never known a mom in Laos to be given a baby shower; usually, some time after the baby is born, relatives might give a few small gifts like clothes, money, and jewelry.
In Thailand and Laos, many babies wear beautiful silver anklets with bells on them. Far from being merely ornamental, the tinkling bells help caregivers to know where the baby is at all times.
Bumble Bells sells these swanky, functional anklets in the USA, and I was so excited to have the chance to have one for baby Deeds.
Deeds looks totally cute in his Bumble Bells; I wish that I had a pair for myself, too!
We don’t have a baby monitor in our house, and one unexpected benefit of having a Bumble Bells baby is being able to hear him jingling around in his bed when he is awake but not crying.
I can also tell if he has fallen asleep yet or not, when I have laid him in bed awake.
Bumble Bells truly are the original baby tracking device !
Deeds has been wearing Bumble Bells for over a week, and he hasn’t been bothered by them or tried to frantically rip them off.
Our Bumble Bells are easy to put on; the circle expands wide enough to slip the anklet over baby’s heel without any wrestling.
The anklets come in two sizes (NewBee, for ages 0-9M and Worker Bee, for 9M-4Years).
The tinkling bells are a pleasant sound, especially in the quiet house when Jojo is at preschool and Deeds is toddling around, busy with his toys.
As delicate as they might appear, Bumble Bells are very strong and the wee bells do not come off. They are made from sterling silver and are ASTM-certified for safety.
You can hear Bumble Bells in action in this short video (our neighbors were playing loud party music, so it is a nice free soundtrack):
A portion of every Bumble Bells purchase goes to support Head Start, a nation-wide school readiness program in the US that provides comprehensive education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families.
Bumble Bells are $45 for one anklet or $75 for a pair. Nothing could be cuter on your little one at a party, photo session, or any time!
Bumble Bells is happy to offer a discount to Mom Most Traveled readers!
Use coupon code 112080807 for 15% off an order!
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04 December 2008, 1:49 pm
What a brilliant idea. They are also quite pretty. Pity they do not make them for adults.
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05 December 2008, 4:43 pm
Deeds looks quite charming in these. Like Jennifer said, I wish they made them for adults!
05 December 2008, 5:48 pm
What a cutie!! I saw these a while ago and made a pair for my daughter and her husbands baby hope chest. When I saw these, I remembered how many times my son would love to run from us and play hide and seek in places like Target!!! One time Papa and I met up and I saw him without Mason and FREAKED OUT! He just says, Oh, he ran into some clothes, then I could not catch up to him..and now can’t find him. He says this calmly, like it was nothing! I must have really made a scene because I had several empolyees and security surrounding me in seconds. Doors were covered by employees, as others scattered to go look. The Target employees were great! I stood at the junction where two long isles met, that was right by both doors leading into the mall, and outside… watching for him. Then I saw him, he was 3 at the time, he was coming around the corner way down at the end of one isle near the back of the store…you could see him smiling and giggleing thinking he was playing a game, the little stinker. I yelled at people….”Grab that little boy, grab him!!” and people looked at me…then totally ignored me!! I was running to try and get him down this long isle, and people just turned the other way! Could not believe it. Only one older gentlemen that was near Mason went to grab him, while Mason tried to runn the other way into the middle of a clothing rack. But, the gentlemen was able to grab him and brought him back to me. I was in tears, crying and thanked him profusely, because you know all the horrible things that ran through my mind!!
So, remembering all the times he would pull these kinds of stunts, I wished there was some way to hear where he was! So, I made a few pairs of these anklets with bells, enough to last until way into the toddler years for my daughters baby’s hope chest. These are a must have, just to save yourself from all those moments of terror when you look around and can’t find your baby, toddler. (he hated the stroller and holding hands and was too heavy to carry, he had to be walking or running!) Some kids stay, hold your hand or will ride in the stroller…not this little runner. Funny, he got a scholarship for track!! That is how much he liked to run! He even set records and won State every year he ran! He even came within secounds of meeting the times to qualify for Nationals and the Olympics in his firt time trails at college. This kid loves to run!
Next, they will develope a GPS chip you can use to locate them…or have they already? I could have used that on my kids when they were teens!
05 December 2008, 5:49 pm
PS, sorry for such a long article! But, I wanted to add, these are so much more cute then the ones I made!