What Christmas gifts likes 2 year old girl
My daughter’s second Christmas was the first she had without corrective shoes and casts for her clubbed feet. My daughter woke up, woke us up, and then asked if it was finally “Christmas time for presents”. “Yes, it is,” I told her.
She rushed up to the tree and saw the stack of presents. She’d already thought the tree was magic, and now there were “painted boxes” under the tree. My daughter jumped on the presents, ready to rip them apart.
After opening the first package, her first desire was to jump up and down with abandon on the bubble wrap to pop it – something she hadn’t been able to do in prior years. She was so busy jumping on the bubble wrap that I had to try to interest her in the toys in the boxes she had ripped open.
When I handed her a fancily wrapped present, she took apart the decorations and tinsel on the gift box. Then the tinsel stuck to her hands. She then ran around the house, shaking the tinsel like cheer leader pom-poms.
Then she came back and skated on her feet on shreds of wrapping paper. It wasn’t until lunch time that she went back to play with the toys that were previously ignored. The lessons I learned from that morning were:
1. Don’t worry about wrapping it or making the present look perfect. Little ones are simply thrilled to be given something anything. And older children will only care what is on the inside of the present. They only care about what is on the inside, a lesson parents seek to teach them later.
2. Don’t underestimate the joy simple things can bring to life. It doesn’t have to be complicated to be great.
3. The best gifts can’t be bought. Mobility, health, family, love, joy, and hope – all are far beyond price and cannot be bought with money.
Well, maybe there’s a price on health, based on the doctor’s bills.
