Um, i think you should keep the one you like! Who cares what other people think about how you raise your son? I played with cars as a kid and it didn't convert me into a man! Toys are just toys. I actually saw my friend's DP the other day, telling her under no circumstances to buy their son a toy buggy for christmas because it was a girls toy and not what men did, which he was saying AS HE PUSHED HIS SON IN HIS BUGGY! Babies respond better to high-pitched voices (which is apparently why most of the human race "baby-talk" to babies in pitched-up tone) and Nixon is a baby, not a teenage boy. If you'd rather get him a cuddlier one then go fot it, but don't exchange gifts for the sake of what other people say.

I let Smee play with whatever she seems interested in - i just bought her a toy workbench for christmas with a drill, saw, vice and hammer/screwdriver set! She liked it in the shop. I don't want her growing up to be a nurse when really she'd like to be a mechanic because i've offered her my idea of gender-appropriate toys and activities all her life. It makes me sad to think of all the boys who would be brilliant nurses and all the girls who would be great mechanics spending their lives not knowing how good they are at things they've never been able to experience and try out.

It makes me mad when people ask me why DD is wearing blue - as if a blue t-shirt will make her grow a penis!? WTF?

Ok, off soap box now. LOL

GO with what YOU want hun.

Bx