Don't call me baby

[venta]

I require some assistance from the baby-aware among you, please. In a couple of weeks a sprog for whom I ought to buy a birthday present will be one. What does one give a one year old ? A boy, though I suspect that's not that relevant.

A while ago I happened on a craft stall selling nice wooden puzzles, and bought a brightly coloured, chunky jigsaw in the shape of a sealion. It has, I think, seven or eight pieces. Unfortunately, I'm now wondering whether perhaps that might be too babyish. Is he likely to be beyond it already ? What I know about the developmental stages of children could be written in quite large letters on a postage stamp.

So, er, any ideas ? If you were one year old, what would you want ? If you had a one year old, what would you want other people to give to it ?

Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Chunky jigsaws are good; one year olds vary considerably and even the brightest ones will continue to do that kind of thing for another 8-12 months anyway. I'll look up what smallclanger got for his first birthday and come back in a moment...

But also, I would say BOOKS. Even if they're not at the right level, you can give nice books for the future, at this age.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Ok, looks like he got: squashy skittles, tents for crawling inside [ELC], Duplo, pull-toys, a shape sorter, flap books, and this which is one of a series of the funniest board books I've ever seen. Highly recommended.