Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-131.162.155.213-20130224220710/@comment-77.75.167.198-20140118094641

Okay, found this answer on http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim_talk:Alesan

"On this playthroug, i adoptes Alesan for the first time. when he showed up at Windsted Manor i tried to give him a wooden sword, and got the same error message i did when i tried to give Sofie somthing the first time. For Sofie, this issue is documented on her Wiki page, and is caused by her having over 300 flower baskets in her inventory. So i checked Alesan's inventory, and found that he was carrying 1,903 Baskets (BaseID 000ABD30)

If you run into this problem in your game and you're on PC, open the console, click on Alesan, and enter the command 'drop 000ABD30 2000. 'He'll drop the baskets and then you can give him gifts as normal"

This worked for me!!