October-November is our busiest month with birthdays and anniversaries galore which doesn't help on my quest to be done with Christmas presents by the end of November. Needless to say this year I have dropped the ball a bit and have just one present bought. Oops.
As per my usual self though, what I have managed to do is compile a Christmas list for everyone and I have also bought an outfit for my son for the Christmas cards this year. Unfortunately my son has had a viral infection and is now covered head to toe in spots so they wouldn't make for the best Christmas card photos but if needs be I will have to make it work or like everyone else just buy some off the shelf.
Around this time you see loads of articles online about the most popular presents to give to children this year. That's great but what you will never see is a list of presents for babies. What do you get for an 18month old who has everything? Having trawled the internet trying to find out about 18-24 month old development, I have found that they are honing their walking skills and expanding their vocabulary, neither of which helps me with presents as he has literally everything useful to aid him. What I have settled on so far is this:
This will hopefully help him learn to dress himself and that is about it. I have toyed with the idea of clothes but my son has some of his hand-me-downs as he has always had too many, then with vtech learning pads etc. Any other ideas would be very welcome as I'm completely stuck!
Then there is my son who is a darn sight easier to buy for as he doesn't have all of the clothes in the world and is eating like a trooper so he will be in the next size up soon which I cannot wait for as 12-18month old clothes as so much nicer! When I had mentioned to a shopkeeper I was looking for a yellow fisherman's coat for my son (yes I know he would look like Paddington bear) she said, "we don't do plain coats in that size as he's a baby and they love the little patterns and prints". Firstly, he is a baby so he loves anything colourful and secondly he will be wearing it, how will he be able to see the print to care that it has space ships on it?! Obviously I didn't say this out loud but other retailers must think the same as the market is saturated with coats covered in silly prints, I just want a plain one! I have settled on this one although the description of "shell jacket" gives me fears he will look like a throwback of the 80s.
Now to just sort everyone else out, roll on payday!
~AB~
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