After weeks and weeks of my nagging, my 8 year old daughter sat down and listed items she would like as Christmas and Birthday presents FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS. Her list has 147 entries. The following caught my eye and are reproduced exactly as seen with my comments in square braces:
A Medusa head (pretend) [Phew! ToysRUs have sold the real one!]
Water bed [you wha...?!]
Baby lizard in a cage
Niting set [Comb and Hedrin are now on my Xmas shopping list]
Ladder [!!!]
Horse riding lessons
Stones (shiny ones)
Bagpipes [No, no and, again, NO. Unless she means a picture]
A book on how to make breakfast
Lantern [...for her time-travelling smuggling activities, I guess]
Drum kit
Bow and arrow lessons
Horse riding lessons again [sigh ... ]
Radio t-shirt
White motor bike helmet with pink flowers
Army jacket
Nerf rebel heartbreaker bow
Long red dress
Roller skaters [How many and why?]
Cup with a name on it ["Jill"? "Peter"? "Gaddafi"?]
Colourful school bag. We're allowed mum!
Wood workshop
Robot fish
A diamond collar, toys and a bed for the cat [We don't have a cat]
An afro