Presents

One thing I love about all these people around us having children is that I get to buy presents for the newborns as well as for all the little kids’ birthdays. Luckily we live in a neighborhood full of children and therefore full of children shops. Unfortunately I have to confine myself to the light and relatively flat stuff to be able to mail it and keep the mailing costs within limits – I am kind of a sponsor of the Deutsche Post since living here. Took me a couple of months to find out that postcards do not have ‘standard’ (whatever that may be) standards you pay five times as much and let I happen to  be somebody who doesn’t send standard sized postcards…

Anyhow, we did find a couple of good presents over the last few days that are pretty sendable at great shops in the area. At Me and My Mummy  they mainly sell the greatest kids clothes also of a few of my favorite brands (Petit bateau: perfect if you have very slim kids like I do, Kik kid: for the tomboys, Smafolk: colorful brand from Denmark using very soft fabrics) This time we find an elephant shaped washcloth for our niece in India who turns three and a couple of robin socks for the brand new sister of baby Vida - Also bought a fantastic bouncing ball with a crowned frog and lots of golden glitters in it, but that was a present for ourselves.

At Schatzinsel they really do have a lot of treasures for kids. It is completely packed with mainly little toys. Here we found lovely forest cupcake holders, happy birthday candles (both of which we end up using ourselves) and lovely little fox plasters, which we send to Alec because he is such a little scallywag. - Also bought a little bucket and scoop for ourselves, you can never have enough of those in a city as Berlin.

At Rasselfisch they mainly are about selling strollers, but they also have a corner with all kinds of toys and other kids’ stuff. Here we find a soft woolen bonnet for newborn baby Vida, Three paper chicks who we still are searching a house for and the loveliest daisy bracelets. Bought two of those last ones this time but return later on to buy four more, because we do think every three year old girls should have one. Rasselfisch turns out to be a stayer and we have returned here more often. When our eldest turned three for example to buy one of their doll carriers. Or when baby Louis was born, to buy him and his sister two of their duck wash clothes.

Problem in the end always is that I can’t seem to choose in all these nice shops and that I end up buying nothing, having to return later on.