I was just thinking this was a personal/family culture thing, and your comment proves it. Because not only would I get the nibs or the godkids a thing they wanted, their parents would be excited that I had. And this is a pattern that bore out in the previous generation as well: sometimes (often!) my grandparents or my godparents got to be the ones who got me the BIG SPECIAL THING and my parents' response was "aren't you lucky you have so many people who love you and want to give you nice things," not "I wanted to be the one to give her that." We both felt like there was an obvious thing within our own context, and it was the opposite obvious thing.

Which doesn't make one response right and the other one wrong, it's a thing to settle between you rather than a thing to get an external authority to say is right or wrong.