AIBU to ask what you’ve got your two year old for Christmas?

[Shimmylikejoanholloway]

DS has a Christmas birthday and I’m struggling to judge how much to get him without him being too overwhelmed.
I’m also a bit stuck for ideas

So far for Christmas he has:
Two books
New dressing gown
New slippers
Tractor with trailer wooden toy

We will be with his cousins for Christmas who always get a lot of gifts but I don’t want to go too mad as he doesn’t fully understand yet and I think he will just get overwhelmed, but need a few more ideas!

He loves colouring and crafts and is very into the film Planes so might get him something to do with that. I’m keen to get him some learning toys as well.

@Toottooot

A ride on Range Rover, a garden play house, a trampoline for the garden and probably some other small bits yet to be decided. Don’t want to go too ott.

This made me LOL! Yes don't go overboard on the chocolate coins, that would just be too much

Lots of books, dressing gown, 2 puzzles, toy vacuum cleaner, colouring book and a cuddly toy.

@Shimmylikejoanholloway it's the Orchard Games postbox game. You have to post letters into different coloured postboxes. It was less than a fiver in Aldi.1

DD is getting a dolls house (a really solid one, cost a fortune) with all the odds and sods, magnetic blocks and some books. Have learned the hard way that too many presents results in boredom and meltdowns.

A box of blocks
A wooden train set (IKEA)
A rug with roads printed on it for using toy cars on

He will be 2 in Feb at which point we will buy a jungle gym thing which will grow with him but cost hundreds so don't feel too guilty at our modest Xmas offering.

DD has an older brother so we already have things like a toy kitchen.

Shes having a duplo funfair set from us. Then each kid has a stocking with little bits in - chocolate coins, pants and socks, some felt pens/crayons, a book, an inflatable globe, a torch, and a mini popit.

One of my siblings has got both my kids a dinosaur onesie each. Another sibling has got them each an orchard toys game. Another sibling has got the 2 year old a set of sylvanian rabbits (the older DC has something else).

My mum has bought 2 yr old a sylvanian tree house.

Not a lot, enjoying him being small so I can get away with minimal effort as we have a big family so he will still have loads.

A learning tower for the kitchen, some second hand toot toot cars, paint pens and paper and a light up bath toy.
He also really needs new clothes so will have to do that in January.

My 2 year old is getting a wooden farm, puzzles, wooden fruit and veg that can be cut in two pieces and a box of stickle bricks

My daughter has just had a December birthday (two) and it was quickly clear less is more! They open and then want to play with their toys straight away, so it takes ages to open three or four as each one comes out and has to be looked at and played with.
I'll lay kitchen massive hit for bday. She's getting a toy crib and pushchair for Xmas ( and a load of toot toot but I've hidden that for later in the year)

My 2 year old is a second child so we already have lots

• balance bike
• happyland
• ceebies magazine
• sticker book
• bath bombs
• jigsaw

Mine is about to turn two and for Christmas and birthday (haven’t decided what for when yet, and some is from grandparents), he is getting:

A scooter
A play kitchen and accessories
A Playmobil Noah’s Ark (he likes animals and they do some lovely stuff suitable from 18 months)
A Duplo farm
Some books
Some crayons shaped in the letters of his name
A dressing gown
A wooden cake that can be “served” in slices (he’s just getting into role play)
A xylophone
A keyboard/phone toy

If we had more space, I’d be getting him an easel. I think we will also get him a balance bike when the weather is better - maybe Easter.

Some accessories for her baby annabell doll, some toys related to her favourite show, and a toy tea set. Grandparents have bought her a yoto player