First Birthday gift to go with a rocking horse....

To be honest, for his first birthday he really won't care. If you want something he will play with, then wrap it up in a big cardboard box, even if it doesn't come with one. One year olds LOVE cardboard boxes big enough to get in.

I liked the first person's idea of horse shaped lollipops, if you can find those. But I was thinking maybe a toy cowboy, it could be his partner. He could be sheriff and have his own deputy

My daughter was almost 1 at Christmas and she loves to be read to, we bought her the Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Teddy's Shapes & Colors Book. She is 14 months now and loves to play with it still. It not only reads the page when you press the button, but it counts, and has songs too. There are soft Tonka Trucks, Mega Blocks....hard to recommend something without knowing his developmental level. Another toy that is a bit more (I believe $20) is the LeapFrog My Pal. A friend of ours got her this for her 1st birthday and she loves the puppy. It has different modes and is customizable. You can go online and download new songs, enter your childs favorite colors, food, his/her name and all the information is included in some of what the dog says. For example,there are 3 bedtime settings (3 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes) where lullabies with no words are played. Before the music plays, Violet says " 3 minutes of bedtime music, Snuggle up Evelyn"

go along with the western theme such as a blanket for the horse, a cowboy hat, a rope for roping his horse,that sort of thing. i know that he is pretty little now but its a thought.