My 7 year old son has asked for a Hover Copter, Rescue Heros, Microscope, and Solar Planet Projector. Also Yugioh, of course. Target has the microscope for a good price and my mother-in-law bought the projector there for a good price (under$40). I just have to get myself to the store to buy them.
We're in the middle of a mini-bookfair (3 days) with Scholastic, and my son swears he has picked out several. It's open tomorrow in conjunction with Breakfast w Santa/Holidays Around the World - so I'm working a shift and we'll pick them up then. (If whatever he wants is still there.)
There are a couple of video games he listed that I've already gotten. Plus he wants one of those squishy pillows stuffed with the tiny micro-beads.
Meanwhile - I started wrapping today. I have about 10 boxes for my 13 year old daughters (clothes, purses, funny socks, jewelry, and more clothes...) and ONE for him. The games are on order, but one gets to be from a grandma, so that brings me up to a whopping "TWO".
I think I'm going to get a disc golf/frisbee golf set of 3 starter discs. It's about the only sport he doesn't play, and there's a course 2 blocks over.
I saw a CD alarm clock on sale he might like. The hunt continues...
Metzy...you're funny! We were looking at a family gift and I was thinking a DVD player with the kids each getting their favorite movie on DVD. NOOOOOO my husband wants one of those $100+ monster remote control trucks! You know, for him and the boys...what about the girls??? Well, I won...I do the shopping! HA!
Hey Joy, what about one of those book clubs through Scholastic or a subsciption to a kids mag? My sister did that for my oldest, unfortunatly it was to Teen and my little angel is such a tomboy! Oh well, I had a good time (and the neighbor girl enjoyed them even more!)
Every year my mom calls and asks the same questions what do the kids need etc. Every year, personnalized ornament and new pj's! So this year I just e-mailed her their sizes and cool jammies I have seen (I swear she is addicted to shopping online now!).
My son asked for books for his last birthday. He wanted the Magic Tree House books and some of the Hardy Boys books. When I tell people that, they look at me like I've raised a weirdo. The funny thing is, I always have a book in my purse incase I get 2 seconds to read the new Mary Higgins Clark or whatever.
The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating-in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life. --Anne Morris
I need the ideas too.....mines into yugioh but you can only handle so many of those cards before you want to 'accidentally' throw them into the washer with his jeans...
My son is 8 and never asks for realistic items at christmas....its great I love it cause his ideas are 10lbs of solid gold, a magic carpet, a sweat shirt that doesn't sweat...so on BUT it sucks too cause family wants ideas specific ones they can't comprehend just me telling them what he's into and buying on their own
The gum in the mouth! great idea i'll definately shove my mouth full of gum for the next pto meeting......i tend to um be a little to honest when I talk and tell ppl like it is, which ppl can't stand!
As far as the hot chocolate, ya know a lil shot of liquor in that hot chocolate before a pto meeting works wonders......lol that probably sounded so bad.
