Christmas Gift Hits and Misses?

[Earlybird]

After all the wish-list letters to Santa, careful planning/shopping, random purchases, requests to families/spouses - what has (so far) lived up to expectation? What is not nearly as wonderful as it seemed in the adverts? Any unexpected surprises - good or bad?

Hits: Harry Potter book, High School Musical Electronic Dance Mat, battery powered hamster that scuttles over the floor in a perspex ball, remote control dragonfly.

Misses: various bits of clothing that needs to be exchanged for different sizes.

hits - Fallout 3 for ds2. Him and ds1 have been playing it on the computer till their eyeballs bleed.

DS1 17, DS2 14 have been squabbling over a long flexi rubber type centipede which cost £1.50 and has been pulled, knotted and swung about constantly since 8am Christmas day.

Hits: For ds the lego police station - it's a thing of beauty!
DD1 and 2 are playing non-stop with the toy kitchen and dream cottage grocery store.

Misses: singalong igglepigge - terrifies dd2 and she runs out of the room everytime it makes a noise!
ELC fairy land thing - kept them amused for 10 5 seconds

Hits: The Nintendo Wii!!! Though I woke up this morning with my right arm really aching due to over enthusiastic baseball!

Miss: A duplicate book.

Ben 10 comic set
All the DS games
Slippers with lights on
Adipose cuddly toy (Dr Who)
New scooter

I got RSI last year from Guitar Hero!!

Oh yes, the Robot Piggy Bank from John Lewis and the Walkie Talkies have been a really big hit as well. And the Ancient Egypt pop up flap book.

Hits with dd: her dolls house from chocolate teapot and her fishing rod. She has been out all day with it.

Hit here was a Thomas the Tank AquaDraw and some 58p Tesco own Torches also Hungry Frogs game )cheap equivilent of Hungry Hippos)

No real misses luckily although all the bits for everything are scattered around the house.

hit- £1 pot of "farting putty"

so glad i spend ££££ on other presents for them

the adults are enjoying the wii though!

hit- buying both boys the same ds game so they could link, barking, flipping puppy for dd2- it does backflips and she adores it.

miss- none really, although there are things that havnt bee played with as much as others

Hits: have just asked DS and he 'liked all of them the best because all of them were great presents.'

I love my DS.

Miss: accidentally stuffing DS2's main present (Wii game) into his stocking because it was the same shape as the vvvvvvvv cheap joke book, and it was late, and dark...

only realised when I heard the early morning cry of 'If the stocking is THIS good, I wonder what my MAIN present is!!!!'

Hits - robot dog we got for DS2 - it was a bit of a gamble but it paid off.

Misses - the docking station for my Walkman mp3 player which isn't really compatible. It won't sit in the little slot as the connection is the wrong type and connecting it by a cable isn't really what I wanted.

Hits: Nintendo DS each for the DD's.. and one had a Mummy make me better doll and the other a baby Chou Chou potty one..
Miss: Coats from MIL... boys coats and 3 sizes too big - For the Dd's

Hits

dd2 her interactive baby annabell and dolls pram (although the hole family pmsl yesterday as baby annabell had been 'crying' for a while and dd2 (aged 23months) said shut up and threw her in the pram and pushed it in the other room (her maternal instincts must be inherited from me )

dd1 loves her pink 'laptop' (vtech thing) and we gave her my silver coach dolls pram (that I got 25 years ago yesterday) she loves it (and not normally a dolly girl)

Miss
ummmm the 6 annuals they got (they are 4 and almost 2 and dont understand them)
cheap art set that every pencil has beoken and when you try and sharpen they jyst break

ad obviously I still havent learnt how to type properly

Hit for DD3 16 was a Yahama keyboard which she is playing now. She also loved everything else. DD2 19 likes everything. DD1 21 Best present was Cranium which we all had a great time playing. Her Miss was a dressing gown size 18-26 She is a sizw 10! MIL bought the wrong size by mistake.
DH and I bothed liked everything we got.

Hits :

Wii

Baby annabell dd adores her

adiopose and dr who fob watch

Dr who tardis game

Miss:

HSM watch keeps falling to bits

Nintendogs bloody hard to work out

hit - cheapo stacking cups for ds (15 months)
wooden clothes line for dd (3)

Lovely stress-free Christmas here!

Hits - mega cheap (£4) MP3 players with music loaded on in advance by DH. DS (6) has been listening to "Bad to the Bone" - the music that the monster truck Gravedigger uses ALL day...has used up two AAA batteries!

Hit: geronimo tent from habitat for dd2 - all three of them can fit in it and have loved it.

ComeWhine - dd also got Nintendogs, and hasn't got the hang of it on her own. Have you/your dc mastered it now? Any tips you'd care to pass on would be gratefully received.

Hits:

Nintendo DS for DD (not surprising I guess and just as well as cost £90)

20Q from SiL for DS1 I think which even DH agrees is really good.

GK kit for DS2 even tho it's far too big for him.

Indiana Jones lego for DS1

Draughts set for DS1

Misses:

cheap crayons from an aunt - I'd rather she just sent them a bar of chocolate (or nothing at all tbh) than crap crayons that break all the time.