To want to give my DS his much longed for present ourselves...

[narna]

My DS has been after a certain toy for ages .He talks about it all the time and we have promised him one for his birthday in October.
Today my PIL who i love to bits have phoned to say they have got him this toy today cheaper than anywhere else we have seen.
How lovely of them ,i was so pleased.Then my DP announced that they are planning to give him it for his birthday....
Am sure im being really childish and ungrateful but he wants it so much and will be sooo happy AIBU to want it to be a gift from us?

YABU

Get him something else he'll enjoy playing with.

YABU

let them give it to him, it's lovely that they made the effort to find it

I'm not sure children really notice which present is from whom anyway!

I'd want to be there when he opens it though so you can see his reaction

YANBU of course you want to be the one to give him what he really really really really wants- it's only natural.

Your PIL sound lovely, why not ask if you can buy it off of them as you have been really really looking forward to giving it to him and suggest other things they might like to get him - else you could be a tiny bit sneaky and say that as you promised him you would buy it for him for his birthday if he was good - you feel like you would be going back on your word if you don't and you don't want that....

I do understand but YABU

He gets the toy, he will not really care who gave it him.

YABU, just be happy he has such lovely thoughful Grandsparents! He's not going to love you any less because it didn't come from you.

This was the kind of thing my PIL would do. When the DC were young, I found it absolutely infuriating, but now they are old enough to understand, it doesn't seem so much of a problem. And they don't do it now - they give money so the DC can choose their own stuff.

So I think YANBU

YANBU.
My FIL does this to me ALL THE TIME!!

....Your FIL does it to you all the time. Well how ungrateful do you sound, prob thinks he is being kind getting the children presents they actually want. My kids get a £5 in a card, about a week late from my Il's. I know which I would prefer.

Ooh my Sil did this last year but with the elc toy kitchen. I was fuming!

Got over it pretty quickly when she told me she got it heavily discounted and it got an almighty crack in one side after 2 months. So glad I didn't waste £70 on the damn thing!

YANBU to be disappointed but YABU if you don't get over said disappointment sharpish and find something else even better to get DS for his birthday.