Big Gifts for Holidays and Birthday?

rexgirl06

I know a lot of you don't need big gifts for LO but this is our first and I'm just curious what others plan to do since Christmas and Birthdays are just a few months apart. We are suckers and will probably go bananas AND over-budget.

versed

I'll treat his birthday as if it were any other time of the year, other than just 4w after Christmas. I won't let "he just got XYZ for Christmas" make his bday presents any different. He won't necessarily get a big gift every Xmas/bday, but neither will DS1 with a June bday.

kella0708

We bought A a Radio Flyer wagon which will be his big gift for Christmas. Haven't even started thinking about birthday yet!

shellbell3845

We're doing a ride on toy for his big Christmas gift. For his birthday, we'll do something like an activity cube or table with chairs.

sdlaura

He'll get enough stuff from family members, so I don't plan to get him much of anything. For Xmas, whatever larger gift we get for his sister (since she will actually care), he can play with, of course. We're thinking train set. Probably no big birthday gift this year. DD's favorite 1st birthday gift was a $1 light up ball from Target. In the future, though, we'll do separate Xmas and birthday gifts. I feel like 1 month apart isn't too close for 2 gifts.

Flyingtoast

We will do 1 big present for Christmas and her birthday. But since they are almost 2 months apart, I don't feel like we are combining the holidays. But in the future we will implant the 1 toy in, 1 toy out rule.

hammysmommy

We haven't gotten that far, but seeing as DSD's bday is a week before Christmas, we don't actually consider babyGs birthday all that close (2 1/2 months after).

We don't have the space for big gifts, which sucks because babyG loves his play things at dc (garden gate, front door with mailbox etc). 

We'll have to see...  We've been dreaming of an addition for a couple years, maybe it's time to talk to the bank...

inluv4life2

Well considering that DH just had to give him the activity car toy (not riding)I bought for Christmas over the weekend I guess I'm not sure! Because of DD we need something good from Santa. He'll probably get a riding toy for birthday.

Soap1

I don't give my kids birthday gifts.  It's always the deal that they either get a present or a party.  I really go all out for their parties with lots of friends, food, and activities, so it's always been  party, but I imagine when they're teenagers they'll prefer a present!

rexgirl06

kella0708 said:

We bought A a Radio Flyer wagon which will be his big gift for Christmas. Haven't even started thinking about birthday yet!

I can't decide if we want to do that or the push bike that comes with a belt and removable harness type thing to hold them in. 

rexgirl06

Glad to see we're not too far off from the general consensus on toy ideas. Both our families are pretty limited on cash so any big gifts come from us. Grandparents and Aunts and Uncles will probably do clothes/books etc which will be nice.  

iwubrory

We do a big gift plus smaller gifts for each. DS' s birthday is actually Christmas day and he still gets two big gifts. We wait for his party the weekend after Christmas to give him his birthday presents. DD's birthday 2/28 seems very far away from Christmas.