present for baby boy (10 months) with 3 year old brother

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am looking for ideas for DS2, most of his toys (ie usual developmentally appropriate things like push-along, ride-on toy etc) he has inherited from his brother, when DS1 had his first Xmas he just had presents from grandparents but we need to show that both DS's get equal consideration, if not exactly the same presents, so we need to get him something...

any thoughts?

Thanks a million

a ball is one of the most fun things to get and a 1 yr old would love it. You could get a really nice footbally one. Ds1 would also think this was a great present.

You can get those small size football ones too. Dd2 got a gold and black one years ago and still likes it. Although she has always liked balls.

Alternatively start hiding away some of big brothers toys that he has grown out of and the little one is not yet into then wrap them up and give to the baby
put the cash in the bank for him for his college fees/health bills (when the NHS goes private) /1,000,000 pound ex council flats!!!
Or get them something they can both use ?slide?swing?easel.
Football is a very good idea!

Letterbox have a fantastic psinning top which would be ideal, ELC have some as well IIRC. have been looking at for nephew who is about due now, as its something he'll enjoy during that first year iyswim and its a long time until his first birthday from Christmas.

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Jack in a box - GLTC (MIL is getting this for DD)
Animal Alphabet Cards (I'm really tempted to get these for my baby's room) - GLTC
Gisela Graham Wooden Music Box (These are pretty tempting as well)
Tiger Wheelybug (what my eye is on for DD's first birthday at the end of Jan - hopefully, they may be discounted slightly in the sales!)

we had lots of the "core" baby/toddler toys here too so it's harder thinking of things for no 2

dd (2nd child) got a wheelybug for her 1st b'day and it's great

do you have the fisher price stand up ball blast - another good toy

if you're looking for a stocking filler I suggest the snack trap

do you have happyland/fisher price little people stuff or megabloks/duplo? - they would both enjoy this

We had this dilemma with dd2 who was just 6 months old, when dd1 was celebrating christmas aged 3 1/2. We just explained to our older daughter that Santa knows she's too small to enjoy much and that she loves your toys already so Santa will probably just bring her one toy until she's older. We told her Santa did the same for her - she can remember no different. We did it again last year, but this year she's old enough to want things of her own, but they are all going to be pretty much similar to what we still have in the house for dd1 so its still difficult.

My adopted approach is to think of the items you would have got for your eldest but didn't for one reason or another - hence this is your second bite on the cherry so to speak. DD(9mths) has inherited all of DS(4)'s outgrown baby/toddler toys - let's just say she has very few new toys from us, her parents - I'm not sure the house can cope with the inevitable Xmas avalanche of toys from both sides of the family.

I bulked out the number of presents for DS2 ( at this age we're talking number of parcels not cost to be equal aren't we ?) by giving him things like puzzles, which wouldn't come out of the boxes on the day and could be put away for later in the year and also things that were really for both of them, like washable felt pens, videos and books.

who do you need to show? from my experiance last year, with my 9 month old and 3 year old, they won't even notice, much less give a crap.

Remember to your oldest your youngest child is still some kind of fantastic irritating doll, how could it possibly be as important as himself? It will mean no more to him than presents for the dog, and that's if he even notices the baby is there.