I’m only buying one gift for my toddler this Christmas—and this is it

An outdoor toy during the middle of winter? Yes, because we can stick it in our basement (for now) to help him blitz his energy on those stark cold winter weekends when we’re all feeling a little stir crazy. Once the weather warms up, we’ll move it out to the backyard where he can climb, slide and repeat to his heart’s delight.

This sweet little ride-on toy turns into a scooter with just one flip of the seat. He was big into anything with wheels and we loved that he could get use out of it as he grew bigger. He still uses this on the regular as a scooter, which makes my mama heart happy.

I wanted to celebrate his graduation from babydom (😭) with a big kid toy so we bought him this fun play kitchen with play food. It’s less used than it has been in the past, but is still something he’ll go back to when he wants to pretend to cook me “onion ice cream” and “spicy pancakes.”

Heads up: This one took a while to assemble, but the quality of it is pretty stellar. Still looks fairly new even three years later.