I know MN is good at this kind of thing. I need a christmas present for ds2 who will be 1 at xmas. I'm thinking something muscial, but what?

[Nbg]

Its hard enough as it is because his birthday is at the begining of Dec and ds1 is only 15 months older than him, so we are drowning in plastic stuff, clothes and other baby and toddler paraphenalia.

But, he seems to love music, doesn't matter what.

So what can I get him that isn't going to be cast aside?
I am very stuck.

Oh, and I'm not going ott with the cost of it.

3 children to keep happy at christmas is very hard!

I got dd1 this for her first birthday. she's 4 now, and still loves it, and dd2 played with it too.

It is plastic, and musical, but not annoying, as it plays real music! I think they do a nursery rhyme one too.

That looks interesting and I like that it plays proper music rather than clunky noises.

Could I get it in the UK?

this is also good and musical - more months of use form it, although not as much as the mozart cube, strangely

sorry, x-post.

I don't think it's available in the uk - there was an issue with dropping and the battery hatch breaking, but dd1 is the clumsiest child ever (ASD) and hers is still fine. I imported mine, as I'm forever ordering from US sites anyway (they do better toys for one thing!)

I take it Amazon US ship over here?
Have you been charged for import tax?

I didn't get mine form Amazon (don't think they do ship over here) - will have a hunt and see if I find where I got it from...

I didn't get charged for the mozart cube, but was charged for the second one (was in a huuuge shipment, would have been very lucky to get away with it!)

maybe try US ebay - if the sender is willing to send it as a gift, then the cost is not enough to warrant the charge

Im selling This if you want it its fab but my DS has grown out of it

I have just got this for a friend whose baby will be one at christmas. You squeeze the different tentacles and they play the notes up the scale of C, so you can play little tunes on it. Great for their musical family! I got it from JL for about £20 so quite pricey for a baby toy, but 'tis so fun to play with counts as a pressie for parents as well IMO.

(although obviously will get his mum something not baby related too!)

Ds loves music and always has. A good drum, maracas, Hawkins Bazaar/Letterbox etc all do them. He loves a wooden xylophone still and a glocenspiel we got him from ELC, bells or varying types, and this year will get him a mini keyboard £12 I think from ELC, but they have a 20 per cent discount going at the mo. Only IMO but the keyboard works like an electronic toy but will last for YEARS. One of those magic microphones, Wollie shave them for like £1 and ELC for £5, are good value too. First instinct at that age would be percussion, drums, maracas, bells etc, but we have a music box that gets used all the time because we've built it up slowly over the years. Good luck.

Nbg, sympathy - we're really struggling for presents for our 3rd child who'll be 6 months at Christmas. So far family are getting her a wooden height chart, one of those fabric days of the week charts and I'm going to get her nice cutlery. Like you we're drowning in toys and clothes!

My son was given this for his first Christmas when he was 9 months and he played with it for years. It had volume control too.