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Last year I asked for magazine subscriptions for all of the kids. My then two year old was gifted Wild Animal Baby and Zoobooks. He loves both of them and is excited when they come in the mail.
Legos of course, Daniel isn't really a toddler anymore (he is 5).. but he is getting legos... LOTS of legos... I think I might buy him a huuge lot on ebay and get him a box to sort them into...
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Josh will be 3 a week before Christmas, so I've got both his birthday and Christmas to buy for.
He's getting a Haba workbench to use tools like Daddy...
wooden tinkertoys
wooden lincoln logs
dinosaur puzzles (he's getting a floor puzzle and a few others)
maybe a membership to Fernbank (where the dinosaurs live!)
not sure what else.. he's at that stage where we'll get him a bunch of stuff so that we can weed out all the baby boy toys and he can have big kid stuff instead... we did a lot of that last year when Lindsey turned 3 with the baby girl stuff too
hotwheels. my son is obsessed with hotwheels. We walked past some in Target yesterday and he started laughing and bouncing up and down.lol Dh pick a small pack out for him and he hugged them the enitre way to ther register going ' vroom, vroom'.
I'm asking dh to make them some pine blocks and I might try to get ahold for some playsilks.
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Polar Express DVD
Polar Express Brio Train & Hot Chocolate Car
Thomas Wooden Engine Trio (snowy surprise, comes to breakfast and ???)
Ikea Swing
Mountain Pass Track
That's from us/Santa. I don't know what hte family will get him.
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Trains, we thought about it last year, but I think he's ready this year. Not sure what though. I really don't care for Thomas, so I'd like to wean him off that and on to just "trains".
Kid sized table & chairs
A sled. (preferable one that little brother can come along too)
I'm hoping grandma & grandpa will make a pair of playstands with canopy. Or some other sort of wooden pretend play set-up. Or big blocks like these: http://www.sensoryedge.com/howoblbygu.html
I was just telling dh this morning that Owen needs an art table or desk of some sort so I think that's what we'll get him, his big gift, he'll get other little stuff too, probably train accessories
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My ds is now 5 and he *loves* Playmobil stuff. They make toys for the younger kids too. I think they're called Playmobil 3-2-1. When he was 2 I got him the Matchbox Ice Mountain set and my brother got him a Hot Wheels track. Those still get played with these days too.
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nods nods. I think Romy will be getting a battery operated electric train on a track this year. The playmobil one at the toy store looks like it would be perfect but still looking
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Thomas trains, legos, possibly a loft bed from dh and I (I'm hoping that dh can just build him one)...He's only going to be 3 in December, but he's very much into big boy stuff.
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Mom to Jacob 12-25-95 and Owen 12-13-02
Not really a toddler, he turns 5 during Christmas week. I haven't really done my Christmas/birthday planning, but I do know of some Thomas and Brio train stuff, and Playmobil stuff he will be receiving.
The other poster was correct-Playmobil makes a line called Playmobil 1-2-3, and it's great. If I had known about it when ds was a young toddler I know I would have invested in some of it.
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Trains, we thought about it last year, but I think he's ready this year. Not sure what though. I really don't care for Thomas, so I'd like to wean him off that and on to just "trains".
of course, Daniel isn't really a toddler anymore (he is 5).. but he is getting legos... LOTS of legos... I think I might buy him a huuge lot on ebay and get him a box to sort them into...
so happy to be 8
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