to open dd's Xmas Lego when she's at school tomorrow.

[StripeyKnickersSpottySocks]

I really want to build the Christmas Toy Shop. I can have it all put back in the box for Christmas, she won't realise that the little bags aren't meant to be sellotaped up will she?

even if she doesn't realise you will still feel guilty. Wait till christmas and then snatch it off her help her build it.

go ahead and make it, and then you can help her make it at Christmas.

Just don't lose any of the little pieces!

I should think it's obvious that you're just "testing" it to make sure all the pieces are there, thus avoiding potential disappointment on the big day.

It is your Duty.

Stripey My DS1 has asked FC for this as well, and despite the fact that we are already drowning in a sea of Lego, I am very keen to play with it get it for him.

I have just ordered ds' ipod touch which should arrive next week.

I am planning on getting it out to play with it check it works ok.

It's your job, as her parent, to check it's ok.

it is very important to test your children christmas presents to avoid dissapointment

i remeber checking a thomas aqua draw the other year just in case you understand

Can you imagine the disappointment on The Big Day if pieces are missing and/or broken?

I think it would be a fairly bad mummy who didn't check first.

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I can't believe you are going to do that . DS would notice if the pieces were not in sellaled bags anyway

I have sent the Lego police station off to PILs (where we will be for Christmas) so I can't be tempted .

I would feel to guilty! BUT I am thinking of buying sylvanian families for my daughter even though she has no interst in them whatsoever. I really want to play! I loved them when I was little.

my mum gave away all of my sylvanian families years ago and never told me
doesn't she know how much it cost? now i have to spend loads of money so that i my dd can play with it

but op, you definitely must check that it works before you give it to her... mothers duty

'i' is a really small strike out isn't it

Tee hee! I remember me (aged 14) and my mum and aunt (aged 30-something) whizzing the remote controlled car bought for Dcousins birthday around my aunt's kitchen ahead of wrapping it up!

Apparently, prior to one Christmas a few years earlier, said aunt and my mum also had a go on my Spacehopper before it was wrapped for me to play with! The story goes that they had great fun bouncing up and down the hall ans squabbling as to who had been on it the longest!

My DD wants an Airfix plane so I have one waiting to be wrapped as part of her Christmas pressie. I am SO tempted to open it up and put it together (just to make sure she won't find them too tricky, you understand).

Tee hee! I remember me (aged 14) and my mum and aunt (aged 30-something) whizzing the remote controlled car bought for Dcousins birthday around my aunt's kitchen ahead of wrapping it up!

Apparently, prior to one Christmas a few years earlier, said aunt and my mum also had a go on my Spacehopper before it was wrapped for me to play with! The story goes that they had great fun bouncing up and down the hall ans squabbling as to who had been on it the longest!

My DD wants an Airfix plane so I have one waiting to be wrapped as part of her Christmas pressie. I am SO tempted to open it up and put it together (just to make sure she won't find them too tricky, you understand).

Eh? What happened there? Sorry folks.

My mum tells the story my dad, her older brother and her father 'testing' her much-younger brother's Scalextric on Christmas Eve - then of dad (only one sober) having to go out to try and find somewhere selling batteries late on Christmas Eve....

Last year, I unpacked DD1's Nintendo DS - purely so I could get it charged up so it was ready to play on Christmas Day, you understand...

On another note, DD2 asked me today if we could have a new baby for Christmas . I really hope the Baby Annabel PILs have got her cuts it.....

YABU, The fun is doing it with her on Christmas day.

You see I won't get chance on Xmas day, will be too bust cooking dinner. Then I'll be at work on Boxing Day and by the next day DH and DD will have built all the lego and I won't have any fun. Not done it yet though.