christmas

Have decided to buy Jake a pool for xmas but want a few odds and ends from "santa' and such. He'll be just over a year. Any ideas about suitable presents? What did your kids like as toys??

My mum got Angie a set of wooden blocks for her first xmas when she was 10 months and she still uses them to make houses and cities with.

um blcoks, like everyone else has said... we got a huge ball for paris... well, it was, but now it looks small next to her! first ride-on or something like that? bath toys? lol little people are great.. have built on paris's as she's gotten older... i have an obsession with them now cos they learn so much from them, they can imitate life, learn animals all that stuff. lol

blocks or similar r well worth it as they will still be playing with them in 3-4 yrs time!!!!!

yeah we are just gettinga few things for stocking fillers... paris is huge into polly pocket... i know it has a heap of small bits, but she's great, doesn't stick them i her mouth, and loves it.. so have found a few little sets for a few bucks that have i doll in each. will probably just get some hairties and lollies to stick in the stocking with them.

lol Emma, we are little people mad... got the zoo, zoo train, construction vehicles, school bus, busy town, race car, play mat, parading pals, few sets of xtra people, and for xmas she's got the gift set with minivan, tea party and trike, and the playground set..... as i said... i think i'm a bit obsessed... but hey, she spends hours playing with them, sets them all up round the lounge and loves them. And well, Ayja will get heaps of use outta them, and they get GREAT resale on trademe....

I tend to follow what paris likes and buy accordingly.

Ella's number one favourite thing is clothes pegs, the brightly coloured plastic ones (which you press to open). If you get him some of these, he'll have hours of fun with them (Ella's main use for them is to chew on lol). She also likes magnets so we got her some of the alphabet, just make sure that they are not too small :)

Lil people are great caleb got his 1st set when he was one and he gets new ones every year, my sis has gone mad and got him every new set under the sun for Christmas/birthday, caleb still thinks people put up a christmas treee to celebrate his birthday, he is 5days befrore christmas and thinks he gets a good week of presants as family and friends bring them round, Gosh Christmas this year will be a hand ful, last year me and Andrew did our own thing, he saw his daughters, I spent half in palmy with my family then drove to taupo to see calebs dads side of the family then drove home boxing day for my Family christmas... OMG wat am I going to do this year, aaarrrhh i hadnt thiought of christmas, Andrews mums coming overfrom Auz, well have a new baby, hel still be expected to do half a day with each daughter, have christmas with my family, Caleb will still want to see nanma and grandad and his aunts in taupo.. wow some thought will really have to go into this christmas... oh no

Scary to think Xmas isnt too far away We usually do the go to one parents for lunch then the other for dinner, but I want to have lunch at our house this year with both families. It will be nice to just stay at our own house with the baby.

Xmas??? cant think about that at the moment...too many things are happening before that....my dad's 50th party this Sunday....Baby shower the weekend after....Bub due end of October...Mum's Birthday early November....MIL's 50th party late November......xmas...then 3 more family birthdays before the end of the year!

usually I start buying Xmas pressies but this year...nothing!!!!

LOL....Yah....good idea. I tried telling my dad that...he just smiled! Not sure if that means he approves or he thinks I am full of it....LOL!

If my baby is born 4 days late (4th of November) then I will tell my mum that...bub is her pressie...he he ha ha.