I don't know about any of you, but those hooded towels that are sold for infants are not very useful. Sure, they may be useful for a month or 2, but your baby quickly grows too large for it to cover her effectively. As a mother of 3, I only used these towels on my first when the novelty was still new, and I still cared about cute over functionality.
Don't get me wrong. I still love cute!
But if it's a choice of cute or functional, I definitely choose functional. This is one reason why I make so many things rather than buy them, because I can make them to fit my specifications exactly.
So, when my little girl (#3) came home, I was splitting the extra large hooded towel (basically a regular towel with a hood sewn in the middle length-wise) between my 3-year-old and the baby. I am not against sharing, but when the baby spit up or peed or worse on the towel, I didn't have a good replacement for my son.