This year, ds's (5 and 2) are getting a main joint present (I know, it'll never work...) which is a wooden castle. Ds1 wanted it and the deal is he has to share it with ds2. The grandparents are buying it, which is great - sorted!
So, yesterday we wrote letters to father christmas and ds1's had the castle in it, plus a crossbow - we told him they don't make crossbows for children so it's unlikely father christmas will bring him one...
Ds2 asked for a train with carriages, which he's been asking for for ages and we've got him one. But right at the end he threw in "a boat with people round the side"...! So that'll be me trying to find a flipping boat with people that's not too pricy, when we thought we'd done all our Christmas shopping!