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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every year since my children were born I gave them an ornament (sometimes more than one) that reflected something they did that year. Learned how to ride a bike, lost their first tooth, tried a new sport, visited a new place. Getting the ornaments and looking at the ones from their past has been a highlight of the season. My daughter is moving out and next year, when she has her own tree, she will take these ornaments. [/quote]

I did this for my niece and nephew - their 1st Christmas I gave them a decorated box "X's Christmas Ornaments" and the ornament that was a "Baby's First Ornament".  They now have 18 and 15 ornaments and they will be able to take them with them when they move out of their parents' home.  Of course, they've long since grown out of that one ornament box!

I also made a game for myself of finding them an ornament that wasn't breakable for their 2nd through 6th or 7th years as I always wanted them to be able to put their own ornaments on the tree.  So until they were about 7 years old, I found metal, fabric, wooden or woven ones that represented something they liked or were into.  After that I branched out into ceramic, porcelain, glass, etc.  As they got older, they were perhaps from somewhere I'd traveled, or just an ornament that I thought was beautiful and they would like, or one that was about somewhere they had traveled or an experience they had.   Sometimes I gave each the same ornament, other times they were different.  [/quote]

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