Comments on: My Son’s First Birthday https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/my-sons-first-birthday/ Earn, Save, and Live Joyfully. Sun, 07 Oct 2012 14:23:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: One Frugal Girl https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/my-sons-first-birthday/comment-page-1/#comment-5673 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 14:23:45 +0000 http://www.onefrugalgirl.com/?p=4508#comment-5673 Thanks for your comments ladies. I thought it over and decided not to buy him anything big right now. I figured A) I’d wait to see what the rest of the family buys for him, B) he’s perfectly content with the toys he already owns and C) he might tire of the gift if I give it to him at such an early age.

Instead of buying him something big I bought him some organic finger paints for less than $10. We haven’t tried to paint with him yet and I think he’ll love it!

Thanks for the comments and the advice!

]]> By: Ellen K. https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/my-sons-first-birthday/comment-page-1/#comment-5668 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:53:35 +0000 http://www.onefrugalgirl.com/?p=4508#comment-5668 Happy birthday to your son! First birthdays are a big deal for the parents and relatives, but at this age the child mostly is attracted to balloons and cake. I don’t think we bought our twins anything particularly special for their first birthdays. They received tons from their relatives. For the second birthday, we bought them a play kitchen, but they are only just now really getting into it (age almost 4). I wish we had held off awhile. I think the push-along tricycle would also be premature — he probably won’t be ready for that for another 12-18 months. The girls’ favorite gifts at age 1 were a pop-up crawling tunnel, among other gross motor skill toys like ride-on and push-along toys. At my niece’s 1st birthday in August, her favorite gift was a Melissa and Doug toy piano. All the little kids went crazy for that!

]]> By: Melissa https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/my-sons-first-birthday/comment-page-1/#comment-5667 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:17:38 +0000 http://www.onefrugalgirl.com/?p=4508#comment-5667 If he’s content now hold off on buying something big. I got my daughter a play kitchen when she turned 2 because I could see thy she loved playing with them at other places. But if I had gotten it for her when she was 1 she might have already lost interest in it

]]> By: Beatrice https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/my-sons-first-birthday/comment-page-1/#comment-5666 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 02:47:58 +0000 http://www.onefrugalgirl.com/?p=4508#comment-5666 Happy Birthday to your little one! If your son already has a lot of toys that he is content with, I’d forgo buying yet another toy for him. He won’t know the difference. The extra TLC you bestow on him while at home is the best gift you could ever give to your child. I envy you. Are you throwing a big birthday party for him? My daughter’s first birthday is coming up in a few weeks and I have to start planning for her party. I think she’s a bit young to understand what’s going on so the party’s more for me and my husband to celebrate the milestone (yay, we survived our first year with our baby!)

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