Please post your gift hits and misses here!
Please post your gift hits and misses here!
Missy
Mom to DD1 '03 and DD2 '05
I got this for DD (7 mos) and she loves it! Kept her very entertained on our 12 hour car ride to visit grandparents.
Activity purse:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005JCPJVE
Last edited by BDKmom; 12-25-2012 at 02:33 PM.
DS - Feb 2010
DD - May 2012
Green Toys car
Kidkraft retro kitchen (for both kids).
My 15 month loves his new soft teddy bear from his uncle too.
3 year old DD
2 year old DS
Hits
Little tikes butterfly bath toy
http://www.amazon.com/Little-Tikes-6...erfly+bath+toy
Elefun busy ball popper
http://www.amazon.com/Playskool-Popp...ds=Ball+popper
DD1 Jan '10
DD2 Jan '12
4 month old DD is loving her Baby Einstein Sea Dreams Soother. She also got the exersaucer, but I don't know how she likes it, because she's not ready yet.
The Mozart music cube was a HUGE HIT for DD (9 months tomorrow). She also liked a Very Hungry Caterpillar stuffed animal with cloth "book" attached, and a new Munchkin teether.
Ignored: Calin baby doll, fabric Noah's Ark.
She also got a Haba Walker Wagon with NO HARDWARE to attach the handle!!! This was a big disappointment to us!
She loved the magnatiles DS ignored.
DD is 20 months old and the huge hit here was the play kitchen! She LOVED it!
Links for everything:
Kitchen: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S49874533/
Cooking utensils: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80130168/
Pots and pans: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00130167/
Green Toys frying pan and serving ware: http://www.amazon.com/Green-Toys-Coo...dp/B0015466LM/
PBK tea kettle (LOVED this thing!! She even took off the lid and stuck it under the faucet to "fill" it with water!! ) and toaster: http://www.potterybarnkids.com/produ...e-and-toaster/
Her kitchen paired really well with the doll high chair I bought from Target: http://www.target.com/p/our-generati...k/-/A-14120905
She was totally enthralled in cooking and feeding her babies this morning!! It brought us such great joy to see her so busy exploring her new kitchen.
I don't really think there were any misses, but essentially everything else got ignored for the shiny new kitchen, lol.
Jennifer
SAHM to DD1 (11yo) and DD2 (5yo)
Oh my goodness I see how things quickly get out of hand when multiple relatives get presents for your kids! I think the total toy count in our house more than doubled yesterday. However, DD is having lots of fun with....
FP Laugh and Learn Kitchen - so fun to watch her realize that when she hits parts of it, *she* is causing the sound to start...and then try again, and again, and again....she loves the little pieces that come with it, too.
http://www.amazon.com/Fisher-Price-L...+learn+kitchen
Leapfrog Learn and Groove Table - we forgot batteries, and she still played with it repeatedly yesterday -- loved to be able to stand by herself and whack on it! Today we put in the batteries and I was amazed how long she spent there...made her way around to all 4 sides (by herself!) even!
http://www.amazon.com/LeapFrog-Learn...leapfrog+table
M&D Chomp and Clack Push Toy - we got this for her thinking it would be awhile before she could actually use it....but she was pushing herself around yesterday with a huge grin on her face! She also likes to sit at the base and play with the spinning beads on it.
http://www.amazon.com/Melissa-Doug-D...clack+push+toy
Miss:
Tupperware Shape sorter - doesn't seem too into it yet at all, and somehow keeps hurting her hand on it when she tries to play with it. We'll probably store this away for awhile and then try again.
Biggest hit of all:
Box o' junk - yes, you read that right. For the past few weeks, we have been setting aside any child-safe or almost child-safe trash and junk (i.e. - tissue paper from packing, empty raisin container, ribbon with a cardboard tag, empty box of chocolates, etc.) We put it all in a big cardboard box, and gave it to DD. She *loved* it! She methodically pulled out each and every thing, inspected it, shook it, and moved on. When she got to the end, she crawled in the box to make sure there wasn't anything else, then spent the next long while happily sitting in her pile of trash and playing. When she was finished, we re-packed the box and set it aside, and she was delighted to re-find it later that evening and do it all over again!
Lizi
Hits:
DS1 (20 months) loved his Fischer Price Little People Farm Animals and the Little People® Wheelies™ Loops ’n Swoops Amusement Park™. We gave it to him a few weeks ago but his PBK Anywhere chair gets used a lot too.
Unexpectedly, the Step2 Easel with magnetic letters has been a huge hit already too, I thought it would be another year or two before he really used it but he's played with it a lot already (just the magnetic part for now.)
Angie
Mom to
DD- 9/09-9/09
DS- 2011 DS2- 2012 DS3- 2015 DD-2019
DD2 is 8 mo
Hits:
FP Laugh & Learn Mail Box (actually all of the kids have been playing with this)
My Pal Scout
Those are the only toys I have taken out of the box since we aren't home, so I don't know how the other toys will fair. Too much stuff!
Mommy to my little bear cubs DD1 and DD2- 4/2010 and 4/2012