Keepsake for first Christmas

[MashNpeas]

Baby will be 5 months old at Christmas and will no doubt be spoiled with toys and clothes from family members.

With that in mind I'd prefer to put the majority of my Christmas budget in her bank account and buy one nice thing. Any keepsake type ideas for a baby who will turn one in the summer?!

I'd like something she can keep and could be a 'I got that for my first Christmas' type gift but I'm stumped!

Tree ornament? I got a Jack in the box type music box from my Godfather for my first Christmas and it's brought out every year.

Posh teddy bear?

Oh! Following this. DC will be 9 months by Christmas and I've been thinking the same. Great post OP. :)

Lovely ideas! I've got some sentimental ornaments myself and a little Teddy that was my 'posh ted' :)

I got a ‘My First Christmas’ bauble with the year on from Mamas and Papas and every year since then we’ve bought a special new tree ornament. I keep a list inside the ornaments box so each year we can look at them as they go on the tree and say “oh that’s the one we got when we went to Disneyland / local garden centre / made at school” etc.
I also try to buy a special book and write a message inside so this year it’s the Rebel Girls one and I’ll write Christmas 2018 inside with a personal message.

DD has a patchwork bear that we had made from a selection of her first 'newborn' sized outfits. She's 5 years old now and still loves to show people her 'special bear'.

I think some nice books might be an idea 'the night before Christmas and maybe a Harry Potter set as they've been my favourites

John Lewis did a really nice 'my first christmas' snow globe last year, had the year on as well. I got DD a bauble that says 'DD's first Christmas 2017'. Lots of etsy sellers do them.

Oh and a personalised 'twas the night before Christmas.

What about one of those personalised name books from Wonderbly?

A beautiful version of The Night before Christmas to be got out and read every year?
We bought ours a new bauble for the tree every Christmas from when they were born until they left home. By the time they were adults they had their own little collection to start their own tree off. WE now do the same for the grandchildren and it has become a family tradition.

Some of these are really lovely ideas. I'm leaning towards a special book: the Folio Society have some amazing fairy tale ones. But I'm a bookworm, so I'm worrying it's more a gift for me than for baby.

We got ourselves and DD a bauble with her hand print on. We now have started a tradition of her choosing a new decoration for the tree every Christmas.

DwayneDibbly passing on your love of books is a gift in itself. You can read the books to your dc until they are old enough to read themselves and appreciate the keepsake.

Dependant on your view of what Christmas is.

A keepsake nativity set you can get out each year.

Apart from a few toys etc, I got DD a hard backed edition of the complete Beatrix Potter collection for her 1st Christmas, and they were very well read over the next few years as bedtime stories. The book sits on the bookshelf now, and comes down occasionally, but it is a nice edition that will pass on to her own DCs in time I hope.

My DCs both had the Stieff British collectors bear for their birth year for their first Christmas -

https://www.steiffteddybears.co.uk/steiff-limited-edition-teddy-bears-range/steiff-british-collectors-bear-designed-to-commemorate-year-2018--690402.htm?kw=&fl=1000&ci=74958787026&network=pla&gclid=Cj0KCQjw08XeBRC0ARIsAPgaQC-r7GGmtueFUsVZpOzSSfENbqXEU0T6zAtArDbGx4cN5py19Sue4aAkEZEALwwwcB

I meant to say - as their big Father Christmas gift.

Good point @SingaporeSlinky!