I also finished the blanket for baby Adam, the one year old with a rare cancer:
I was trying to think of things that might make a one year old smile, so I hope he likes it.
My favorite part is the little car I came up with. It makes me want to say "beep, beep".
I also tried, for the first time, a binding method on the edges. It was quite a lot of work, but I really love how it came out. I shy away from double crochet blankets because the edges always look so raw. This process is like a quilt binding. It wraps the unruly edges:
