My friend, Suzanne, once suggested when I was taking names off of a Christmas tree to buy gifts for to get kids the same age as my kids. Smart idea for a smart woman. Most years even though I did this, I would just run across the street to Kmart buy what the kids wanted, then turn them into HR, who handles this.
So for the first year, I decided I would let the kids pick out their own gifts while we were in Toys. I didn’t have the tags, but I remembered the girls wanted Dora. So after I remembered Dora is not in the doll section, but in the pre-school section, which I personally think is dumb, dumb, dumb, I picked up all the gifts in my price range. I placed them on the shelf so the girls sitting in the cart could see them. I told them to pick one, after I explained who the toy was for.
Rowan picked Dora walkie-talkies. Layla picked a Dora talking cellphone. I asked them again and again, but each time they chose the same thing. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m an adult and I understand that maybe these little girls might not get a lot of other gifts at Christmas, but I would have chosen the doll. There were various ones, big and small. I felt/feel that a doll would last longer, something these two little girls could hold on to for a while. But the girls are three and four and the Irish twins are three and four and these are the gifts they chose. So maybe girls the same age know better what kids the same age would want.
It’ll be interesting to see what Jory chooses. And what Layla chooses her second time around since I discovered her three-year-old girl doesn’t want Dora, but either Bratz or Hello Kitty. Yeah, I’m not buying Bratz for anybody. They look way too trashy for me. So Hello Kitty it is.
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