1yo birthday gift

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For some reason, i always liked those wooden dogs that you pull along. Maybe one of those?
 
Yeah, she had one of those the next minute after we knew she was conceived. Her dad ordered it online before he told his parents.
 
We do love Play-doh, but my aunt got a 24 pack for her for Christmas, as well as her two siblings. She got a set for my niece too and my sister hates the stuff. (Says it smells.) So when my niece came over to play, she brought her 24 pack that Aunty got her, to play with at my house. We are at Play-doh storage capacity. She literally is the baby that has everything. For Christmas, my mom donated in her name to Ronald McDonald House.
 
Hmmm. That’s one we don’t have. I’ll have to look that up!
 
When our twins turned one, we got them a serious mess of helium balloons on the day we had the family over for a party. (It was also the birthday party for two additional relatives.) You can’t leave the kids alone with them, but they were enchanted playing with them. They got really excited.

Our kids also had a Lego cart roughly like this that they really liked:
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When you’re just starting to walk, it is nice to be able to move stuff around.

Another gift we got our kids that they really loved were headlamps. They found those a lot of fun. I don’t think they got those until they were quite a bit older, though. We also knew that they tolerated having things on their heads.
 
Agree, savings bonds are great. My adult son is happy I saved the savings bonds he received as gifts through the years.
 
This is the approach we took. I’ve never enjoyed toy-clutter, so we got the kids things that we needed for them, anyway. One year, we got a set of baby spoons that my daughter just kept shoving into her mouth.

Older babies and tots are also obsessed with shiny things. I’ll never forget the Christmas when my niece got something in a shiny red gift bag. I don’t even remember what was in the bag, but she yanked it out, ignored it, and played with the gift bag all morning. 🤣
 
We already kind of did that with Christmas and I did wrap some clothes up for her. She really doesn’t need anything else right now. I guess I can just let her open up the “regifts” from her siblings, but I can’t help thinking that she should get at least one new toy, just for her. I’m sort of feeling like maybe a bubble machine? We already have one, but the motor is starting to slow down on it and I’m thinking it’s not long for this world. I’d kind of like a different model that doesn’t allow the kids to stick their fingers in the fan, because I think that’s what’s done in the motor. I’ve also thought about one of those stretchy tunnels they can crawl through.
 
That’s not a bad idea, although she’s still sleeping in our room at the moment. Or maybe a Divine Mercy icon?
 
Most definitely and maybe give the rest of the money to the poor.

We all have more than what we need and need to think of those who dont have anything in this world.
 
How about nothing? A one year old will remember none of this. Probably better to save the cash for something more valuable down the road when the child can retain memories.
 
Just because she won’t have detailed memories of her first birthday when she is 20 doesn’t mean she shouldn’t enjoy her birthday. She’ll remember it the next day and for some time after that. All of our memories are connected to dozens of other, similar experiences. As we get older, we pile on more memories on top of old ones, but they are still connected to past experiences. I don’t get people who think this way. With all my eldest child’s medical issues, I’ve learned that people actually believed that it was okay to perform procedures on young children without the proper pain relief protocol you would use on an adult, because they “wouldn’t remember it”. How ridiculous is that? Special days and moments are still important to babies. They may not remember specific details when they get older but they will know that they were loved by their family.
 
You can find a 529 plan for her college. It grows tax free and is tax free when you withdraw it as long as it is used for educational expenses. I funded one for each of my grandkids when they were born and add to it every year.
 
We’ve got that. We take a small amount out of every paycheck for each of our kids. Good idea though! What do you guys think of a scarf box? I saw this on the internet. You make a box out of wood with a slit in the top like a tissue box. Then you fill it with small scarves and colorful ribbons that the baby can pull out and throw all over your floor. Then you pick them all up and stuff them back in.
 
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Just because she won’t have detailed memories of her first birthday when she is 20 doesn’t mean she shouldn’t enjoy her birthday.
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That’s an idea. Do something to give her memories of her birthday that she can’t make yet…start a photo album just for her. Take a lot of pictures, have the older siblings write her little messages, and assemble it into a book or something concrete, rather than something virtual. One of the things I could always count on as a babysitter is that the kids always loved showing me photo albums of their family and tell me who everyone was or what they were doing. The good thing is that these days we can do concrete albums like that and also have a virtual copy stored somewhere that will survive no matter what happens to the original.

You could also have the siblings get together and write her a storybook in which she is the star. Reading is so important in those first years, and she’ll be very likely to want to hear that one over and over.

Be careful, though, because everybody is going to want a birthday book!
 
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Already in the works. I made one for my two older kids too and gave it to them for their first Christmas. Unfortunately, my baby’s first Christmas came before her first birthday, so she’s going to have to get her book for her second Christmas. I’m making it on Shutterfly. I’ve included photos of all her firsts up through her first birthday. I also scanned her birth certificate and baby foot prints and her birth announcement in the paper. Shutterfly lets you buy a plastic pocket for the back and I can put in her hospital band and some other stuff from her NICU stay. There’s also a place for us all to write notes to her in our own writing. My older kids get their baby books out and look at them on their birthdays. I love Shutterfly.
 
Allegra said:
Already in the works. I made one for my two older kids too and gave it to them for their first Christmas. Unfortunately, my baby’s first Christmas came before her first birthday, so she’s going to have to get her book for her second Christmas. I’m making it on Shutterfly. I’ve included photos of all her firsts up through her first birthday. I also scanned her birth certificate and baby foot prints and her birth announcement in the paper. Shutterfly lets you buy a plastic pocket for the back and I can put in her hospital band and some other stuff from her NICU stay. There’s also a place for us all to write notes to her in our own writing. My older kids get their baby books out and look at them on their birthdays. I love Shutterfly.
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That is so cool! (But doesn’t one’s first Christmas always come before one’s first birthday?)

I was born just before Christmas. If her birthday is close to Christmas, and especially if it is right before, you might consider getting her a crèche or a statue of the Holy Family with the Baby Jesus.
 
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