Scraps of paper with numbers on them are not nearly so appealing or interesting or beautiful as the things our youngsters play with. Our children can have fun with the simplest things. No doubt you wanted to make it a very special occasion buying lots of cute rattles and trinkets for that little darlin'. Probably the wrapping paper. Forget the presents, just give me the paper.
Kids know how to have tremendous fun with tremendously simple things.
Sadly, most adults seem to have forgotten how to do that. If you put your mind to it, I am sure you would come up with all sorts of other pastimes in which children can find fun that we adults do not think of as fun at all. There are big differences between kids and grown-ups when it comes to knowing how to have fun, and perhaps this is a part of what Jesus meant when he said that we must become as little children if we are to ever see the kingdom of heaven. They do not know how tough things can be. We grown-ups do not have so much fun because we know that living is serious business.