*Image above via Emily Quigley, featuring her gorgeous gift wrap!
I wrote yesterday about the pique of my daughter turning six. How can it be?! Today, sharing what I purchased to celebrate her on her big day. She requested a robe and the Brave Barbie doll, and I filled in the rest of the blanks. The big theme this year is reading in bed. She has been a determined little reader lately; we often find her sounding out the words in her beloved comic books. We bought her this clip lamp so that she can read in bed at night without having to get up and turn off the lights. My husband had the brilliant idea of plugging it into a smart plug so that we can set it to automatically turn off at 9 PM each night (just in case she does fall asleep with it on or is staying up too late!). She is curiously obsessed with the one magnetic bookmark I gave her to hold her place in her books, so I bought her an entire set of the magnetic ones as well as some personalized paper ones. I’ve noticed that she will dog-ear even library books (yikes!) so these will help us keep our books in good working order. And the robe for her reading sessions! I actually made a “awww!” noise when I saw it. I couldn’t help but by the matching doll pajamas for her American Girl and some jammies for her, too. Finally, I bought her a ton of books — a few Dory Fantasmagory (recommended by a Magpie! Thank you!), this Junie B. Jones box set, this Magic Treehouse set, and a few Cam Jansens, which was one of my favorite series when I was little.
I feel I also need to explain items number two and nine on the list below. On two: she recently begged me for highlighters? No idea why a nearly-six-year-old needs highlighters, but these were too cute to pass up and I know she’ll get a kick out of them. On nine: she has totally outgrown her micro scooter! She’s too tall for it. The girls in our neighborhood have these two-wheeled “Sprite” scooters, so we followed suit. She’s going to flip over the “neochrome” color and light-up wheels. So cute! I couldn’t resist this sprinkle helmet to match.
01. BRASS TASK LAMP // 02. MINI HIGHLIGHTER SET // 03. RUFFLE POUCH // 04. MAGNETIC BOOK MARKS // 05. PERSONALIZED BOOKMARKS // 06. FLORAL ROBE // 07. DOLL PAJAMAS // 08. FLORAL SHORT PAJAMAS // 09. MICRO SPRITE SCOOTER // 10. BANWOOD HELMET // 11. DORY FANTASMAGORY AND CAM JANSEN // 12. BRAVE BARBIE
P.S. Go-to gifts for young children.
P.P.S. Toys you won’t mind leaving out.
P.P.P.S. Nursery organization.
What a lucky six-year-old mini is! I love hearing about avid young readers … I’m biased because I was one myself, but it warms my heart to know that there are children who still love to spend their leisure time reading. Kudos to you for fostering that passion! On the highlighters — this made me laugh because my stepdaughter has long loved the Stabilo Boss pastel highlighters that I use for work (random!) I bought her a full set of colors when I was in Germany earlier this winter and it was a huge hit! Who knew?!
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So funny!! I actually completely get it. I used to love going to my dad’s office and messing around with all the pens, highlighters, legal pads, white out (!!), even binder clips? I also LOVED going to Office Depot. Still do.
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I can relate — my mom still loves to talk about how the annual back-to-school trip to Staples was like my Christmas and birthday combined, in terms of anticipation and sheer joy at getting new school supplies! I get it 🙂
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Haha!! I am in your camp!!