My 15 month old will be getting a balance bike. What about yours?
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Fun!
My LO (18 months) won't be getting one particularly large gift because we simply don't have the space for the wooden kitchen or table/chair set I'd love to buy her. Some of her main gifts will "go together" though - she's getting her first big baby doll, a mini Maclaren doll stroller, and a gorgeous wooden cradle for the baby doll. All this is hopes of getting her acclimated to the ins and outs of having a baby around before her little sister arrives this spring.
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She's getting a Lego Duplo Playhouse
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@PinkElephant: oh that is such a cute idea!!! I wanna steal that when I am pregnant again.
@SugarplumsMom: Score!!!!
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A wooden melissa and Doug pirate ship toy. His birthday is 4 days after Christmas and we will emphasize the birthday more than Christmas (we aren't very holidays). He's going to get a bike with pedals for the birthday. Ever since this summer he has been saying "we should buy a bike with pedals for my birthday", so I can't wait to see his face when he opens it.
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Zany zoo!
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@SugarplumsMom: love it!
DS1's big gift will be a set of magna-tiles. DS2 is getting a few baby toys of his own.
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My parents are getting her a table and chairs. Her big item from us is a baby doll.
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Consignment score from us. My parents got her the Zany Zoo and ILs a radio flyer wagon.
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Nothing from us is particularly big, just a few toys. My mom bought her the vtech sit to stand train thing though, which is pretty big. And I think she'll also be getting an activity table.
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This play kitchen
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Zany zoo.
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Big gift is a table and chairs set.
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An adjoining tent and tunnel from Ikea.
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From us, the rockin tunes giraffe - from my grandparents, the B. Toys teepee. I think her big gift from my parents is the little people princess castle.
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A convertible car seat. You're welcome LO.
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We got him one gift--a pottery barn ride on car!
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I made her a teepee but I think she will like her hand me down Elmo doll better
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@MamaMoose: She is going to love the box!
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Play Kitchen!!
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Thomas the train and friends and a lot of wooden tracks.
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Big gift is a broom and pan. Sounds weird, but he loves to sweep. He'll be getting a bath basketball hoop as well. My parents are getting him play food for his kitchen while the inlaws are getting him Duplo blocks.
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@yellowbird: We have the exact same one... LO LOVES it!
@MrsMccarthy: We are getting B a balance bike too!Big gifts- $5k to 529 Plan. Balance Bike. Cozy Truck.
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Nothing - can I say that without sounding like a terrible parent?! We buy our 18 month old things throughout the year; when we see something we think she'd like or needs, we buy it and give it to her then. There's nothing she needs right now so rather than buy stuff just for the sake of buying stuff, we haven't bought anything. I know she has some gifts from grandparents coming but I think they're small things...at least I hope so!
Next year, when she's old enough to kind of get Christmas, we'll buy her some gifts, but this year, we weren't fussed.
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@matador84: which one did you decide on?
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Nothing big per say but I am leaving 1 gift for each kid unwrapped with a big bow -
DD is a doll highchair
DS is a skateboard -
A play kitchen which is from my parents!
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@Smurfette: Yes, yes she is.
@littlek: Every day I fall a little bit more in love with you. I'm very happy to see 529 contributions listed as a Christmas gift! Maybe on Christmas morning I'll show M her account statements!
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Another LO getting a Zany Zoo over here
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A learning tower! Hoping he thinks it is fun!
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Omg I am such a cheapskate compared to everyone. LO is 14 months and has so many things already --- I got him one of those push popper thing and he is going to LOVE it, and it was $12... Ha. I figure from next year on he'll really start to "get" presents so I have some time.
And, um, we bought him a new house to live in a month ago - lol.
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@MrsMccarthy: umm, that is awesome btw.
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@hellobeeboston: not a cheapskate..lol. I figure, LO doesn't even know what the heck is going on..she just yells WOW at the tree anyway! she totally ignored the gifts under there when we decorated. I spent a total of $35 on her
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A teddy bear! We are flying to visit grandparents and his birthday is two weeks later and we got him a play kitchen for that. I might buy him a few more birthday presents, if I can convince DH they are good developmental toys, haha. Or if I see any good post christmas sales.
I think we might turn the first christmas you get a teddy bear into a tradition, though!
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@hellobeeboston: ha, same! Don't feel bad- I haven't gotten LO anything so far! She JUST had a bday though and got so much stuff so I don't know. Will prob just get something small.
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One set of grandparents are getting her a pb anywhere chair, the other is getting her the fp laugh and learn house and zany zoo. We are getting her nothing
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Santa is bringing her the house & w are gifting her the chair. I have no idea what in laws are doing, my parents got her MegaBloks table/blocks/ect.
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@NovBaby1112: happy first birthday M!!!!! And you also bought her a shiny new house too
Oh my parents bought him a little shopping cart - cant wait! It's gonna be cute.
@sorrycharlie: love that she's yelling WOW at the tree! Adorable! My LO has barely even looked at our tree, and it's enormous! Haha, oh well.
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Sooooo for those of you who are afraid that you're being a cheapskate... several of our gifts to our kids (from us and from Santa) are birthday gifts we've received and put aside!! We use the things like clothes, etc immediately but I don't like to introduce a whole bunch of new toys at once, so we space them out over the year. Wagon Jr.'s birthday is 2 weeks before Christmas so this works out for him every year. We usually put aside a gift from one of his friends and use it as a Santa gift. This will probably be the last year we can do this (his 4th birthday) because he's going to start noticing now, and wanting to open his presents at the party.
That being said... with previously gifted gifts mixed in... haha... Wagon Jr. is getting a toy karaoke machine, a superhero toy, and drumsticks and headphones to go with the drum set he has earned with his sticker chart. We also have a balance bike which he'll probably be too old for next year so we might throw that in too. I also have a pair of sneakers with real laces that I hoarded.
LMW is getting the fisher price play vanity, the rain boots I hoarded for her, and some stuffed doggies.
We don't do super big gifts because the grandparents usually just ask us what the kids want, give us their credit cards and have us order them off of amazon for 2 day shipping. Haha.
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@littlek: we are opening J's 529 for Christmas!
He's getting my old kitchen that my dad made me when I was little (pretty ghetto compared to what kids have now but he won't know any better!)
Shopping cart w/pretend food
Building block train
Lotsa cyber Monday clothes
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