Hi guys. For today's video I thought I would do a toddler gift idea video. It is my youngest's
second birthday today. Not a baby anymore and he has got so many lovely, new presents
and I thought, because his birthday isn't that far away from Christmas that I would
show you some of his favorite new gifts that might be a nice idea for Christmas.
A lot of these are unisex as well, so they would work boy or girl, and a lot of these
ideas as well would go from little baby to four years old, because my four year old's
been playing with these and some of these I could see a little baby enjoying as well.
I will just get into it. People texted and said, "What would Caleb
like for his birthday?" I was like, "Well, he loves Minions." You see all the Minion
stuff around. "He loves Minions and he loves building towers." People bought stuff based
on that as well. The first thing that he got that he loves is this Minion backpack. It
is so cute and it's so, so soft, so he walks around cuddling it, but you can actually put
some toys in it. I don't think it could be your day bag out but you can put some toys
in there and then he loves getting them out, and it's just really, really cute.
As I said, he loves to build towers and he got this set of boxes, and they're so cool.
They're just boxes, but it has kept him so busy playing with these and building towers
and even his older brother who's nearly five has been playing with these with the stopwatch
and seeing how quickly he can build a tower and how quickly he can break it down again.
These are such a good gift for a baby or a toddler, or even a bit older as well. He really,
really loves these. Next thing that he got was something that
I bought him, because I had such fond memories of it as a child. It's the game Penguin Run.
I think that's what it's called. A lot of you will probably recognize this from your
childhood as well, but we got it for him and he absolutely loves it. He keeps putting the
little penguins on. They can go forward or backwards, and then go up and they slide all
the way down. It's kept him busy for ages. The only negative to this toy that me and
my husband have been like, "Ah," there's only one sound setting and it's quite loud. Other
than that, it makes him so happy and also it makes me a little bit nostalgic. Love that
gift that he got. You know every year there's a couple of gifts
that are like the main best presents that he got? The Penguin Run was definitely one
of them and the second one was all of his new toy food. All of it at Toys R Us, it was
25 pounds for this huge pack of food. The best thing about this food that he really
likes about it is it's all Velcroed together. You stick it together and then he takes the
little knife and he chops it on the chopping board it came with and yeah, it keeps him
busy for ages. He loves just sitting there and cutting all the food up. He can cut quicker
than I can put them all back together. He really, really enjoys it.
Homey eggs, oh, I'm missing one of the shells. They come like that, they're plastic but all
of the heads, they all have fake little faces on them and then they all come off to be different
colors and underneath there is a different shape on each egg that you then have to match
up when you put them back. It's quite educational as well. He just loves it. What is it about
eggs, surprise egg, any of kind of egg? Children just love it.
I forgot to say that all the little chicks in the eggs makes this cute noise.
Also got him this set of Melissa and Doug blocks. It comes in this little cart that
has wheels so he can drag it along as well. It's got all different letters on it, numbers
as well and pictures. There's lots to look at and do. As I said, he loves to build towers
and it's nice that we can build towers so that we can also talk about what is on the
blocks. I'm sure they're not going to stay in order for very long but yeah, I thought
that was a really good buy and I ended up buying it on Amazon.
Aunt and uncle also got him one of these puzzles. It is also Melissa and Doug. Love all of their
toys but it's not just a puzzle because it's got little magnet dots on each of them so
they're all bugs and it comes with a magnetic flyswatter and you sit there and you get them
on the flyswatter, you can put them back as well. He sat there the other morning at breakfast
just concentrating so much and doing it. This was a really good little puzzle with magnets.
He really enjoys that. Oh gosh, they're going off already. He also
got these three emergency vehicles. He got an ambulance, a firetruck and a police car.
These are VTech ones and they actually go with the garage that he's got. He's got the
VTech Toot Toot Garage and he's always really loved this and his brother as well. These
go perfectly with the track and it's thing. Frank is in now. You say hello?
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The best thing about these and the most annoying thing for parents. Don't be rude. He just
loves them and he loves pressing the buttons and making them sing their songs. If you've
got a little boy, I would recommend this garage. Sings songs and all of that as well. We actually
ended up buying this secondhand from a charity shop.
We've got one of these toys. I think they're from the early learning center, this is the
Old MacDonald Lotto. It's basically a game like Bingo or something where you just do
it with the animals. Always really loved these early learning games, it says Orchard Toys
on it so you probably get it elsewhere. They've got a few now. They've got the shopping game,
they've got the making your lunch game. I can't remember what it's called.
Also got some Bristle Blocks. I bought these on Amazon. We went to a play group and he
really liked playing with them. I don't know if you remember these from being a kid yourself
but they kind of stick together with their bristles and you can build cars and towers
and things like that. That was a good buy. Also got one of these giraffes. This is from
Wilkinson's. I was thinking this would be a really good stocking stuffer for Christmas
as well. You can get different ones. But basically he walks around doing this.
Got so much Duplo Lego as well which was brilliant. We got one of these, a digging set Duplo and
it's nice big stuff that toddlers can sort of work with their hands. We got that and
we got a numbers one as well. Got another VTech car that is basically on
a little track with pusher. You push it back and then you press the button and it goes
flying. Obviously he's only two but he can use this absolutely no problem and his brother's
been showing him how it works as well. That is a really nice little present from a friend.
Couldn't resist buying him a Minion outfit from Toys R Us. I just thought it was so cute
and his birthday is so close to Halloween. I just thought we could dress him up in it
and get a cute photo. You can probably hear the penguin game in
the background because he is playing it as we blog. I got a couple more bits to show
you. He also got this big JCB digger. What little boy wouldn't love something like this?
And I have plans to take this to the park with me and fill it up with little stones
or sand and stuff like that. We've got some Minion goggles.
Last thing I want to show you is this Hungry Caterpillar book. This is one of his favorite
stories. We read it every night. You can get it in all different types of sizes but I think
any baby, toddler, would love this book. Both of my boys always loved this especially this
page. Yeah, so he also got that. The last present that he got that I really
wanted to show you, it's such a nice present and it's from his Nan. It's a little ride
along mouse. The wheels on this are really easy to ride around on and our whole house
is wooden floors so Caleb will have so much fun on this and I just knew that he would
love it. Anyway, I'm really sorry about that noise.
It's driving me crazy but he loves that game. Right, thank you so much for watching. I hope
that gives you a few gift ideas for your toddlers. Thank you so much for watching and I will
see you very soon. Bye. Today is Caleb's birthday party so I've just
run out and got some bits for it.