Moms of 2+ -- gift ideas

[RoryGilmore]

Anything you got as a gift that was really awesome when you had #2? Bonus points if #1 and #2 are the same sex.

I'm visiting a friend this week that just had her 2nd son. I want to pick up a small gift for each boy and am drawing a blank. For me, #1 is a boy and #2 is a girl so I got tons of clothes the 2nd time around!

[satama]

Books. You can never have too many and I don't even mind duplicates because they can each have their own collection I figure. I have two boys. Everyone still gave us clothes for ds2 which was fine because they were born in different seasons.

[ijack]

I agree with books! And an activity for the oldest that he can do while the baby is nursing or something special for him to do with mom while the baby is sleeping.

[lala]

DD1 got a few gifts of her own when DD2 was born - little crafty type things, repositionable sticker thing (melissa & doug), a few books. For DD2 I would have enjoyed books as well. We got clothes a bit, too, which I actually didn't mind because it was nice to have some fresh girls clothes that didn't have DD1's stains on them! We also appreciated a few new baby toys, just because it freshened up our collection a little bit.

[whereintheworld]

For gifts for the baby, I appreciated practical things (diapers, new bibs, new spoons, things like that). For my older son who was 19 months when the baby was born, I liked toys that kept him busy for a while. He got a block sorting toy that he loved, and it gave me 15 minutes to feed the baby, so I appreciated it. I agree that books are always good, too.