I found a website that made wooden toys and they come with a 'birth certificate' , i bought a wooden car for a boy @ MG, another one of the boys 2 of us put in and got this wooden train that is actually MADE of building blocks.

Otherwise i found great things DD got were:

wooden puzzles (you can get ones with their name made)
crayons
wooden blocks
Mega Blocks
Jumbo chalk
Plastic seashell pool thing but we made it a sandpit.

HTH