What is the main present for your dc's this year?

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We have 3 dc's 12 yrs girl 10 yrs boy and 6yrs girl . DD1 wants lots of little things DS wants an xbox elite and DD2 wants the Roby boy doll to finish the collection she already has.

DS(10)- i-pod nano
DD(3)-this and this

DD - bicycle

DS one of those trikes with a handle for s to push.

DS1 (just 6) Star Wars Lego
dd (2.9) Wooden kitchen & food
ds2 (2.9) Wooden garage & cars
ds3 (11mths) Amazing animal train

Ds (7) will get a guitar from my parents and a space station set + playmobil (still have to decide between the farm and the egyptian range) from us

DD (5) playmobil and some sylvanian families bits and pieces.

dd1 (14) flat screen tv/dvd combo then little things, (smellies etc)

ds1 (12) signed framed pictures of Frank Lampard, John Terry and the cup, (plus xbox games and ipod)

ds2 (6) battle strikers, playmobile, and dance stuff

dd2 (4) sylvanian house, families and furniture, then games and extras, (books etc)

dd3 (2) baby born pram, picnic set, shopping trolley, (plus books, peppa pig stuff etc)

then stockings for all, (smellies crayons, small stuff)

MissGreatBritain. Your answer jumped out at me cos I've already bought the Animation Station for DS2, and was having a look at the polaroid printer! The prices vary so widely, was advertised in our local paper at £60! (for printer) but I've seen it as low as £16. The Animation Station, I also got mine from the Gadget Shop, but it was on Amazon for £44!!!!

DS age 5 is getting a Thomas Set, Knapford Station, was £24 from argos and ex is meant to be going halves on it with me so bargain!

I don't normally go mad anyway and DS will love this as he is thomas mad so its a winner all round.

at all the MNers dcs receiving sylvanian family toys for xmas, I hankered after these every year as a child but never got them as my parents couldn't afford them.

DD (10) R4 and docking speakers for i-pod
DS (8) skateboard

And as they are both relatively cheap, lots of stocking fillers!

My DS (2) is very into birds so I am sewing him a bird family. DH is making a wooden nest for them and my dad is making eggs which DS can open and put the baby birds in. My mom and dad are also getting him a teepee, which he'll love as he's likes to hide. Maybe some Thomas stuff, we'll see.

DD (3.5) & DS (2, or will be by xmas)

Main present is an easel between them.

Then dd is getting a learn how to tell the time clock and lots of beads.

DS is getting a small car transporter and Peppa Pig playground set (both half price buys-hooray!)

dd kiddizoom pro camera
ds1 kiddizoom pro camera
ds2 shopping trolley plus food and a pepper pig push and go car.

Should have said they are 6, 4 and 22 months.

DD is 4 and will be getting a bedside light, fairy lights and 'Cinderella Princess doll' whatever the fuck that is, although first investigations show it as £6.99 at TRU so that's OK! Then little bits and bobs. I'm keeping it VERY tight this Christmas.

lots of playmobil!!!
And a teddy for ds (9mths)

I should clarify - dd1 and dd2 are getting the playmobil.

I have never even heard of Animation Station - it looks great i think my DS would like it.

DS2 (3.10) will be getting the playmobil recycling truck for Christmas and a 2-wheel scooter for his birthday in early January.

No idea what to get DS1 (5.7)!

This thread has reassured me greatly!

I have bought my young nieces a book and a doll each, and when our dc1 comes along in Feb, it will be things such as above for Christmas, and no huge outpourings of gifts.

I work in an inner-city school in an area where lets just say the parents try to outdo each other somewhat despite it being right near the bottom of all the socio-economic tables...and I have 11 year olds telling me they are getting "a new laptop, a gold iPod cos I dn't like my silver one no more and an iPhone, they're my main presents, then I'll probably just get Uggs and and a coat and Xbox games aswell". One boy is getting a 50" TV for his bedroom plus Sky HD, and one girl is getting an actual horse...
I am truly .

cheerfulyank's son sounds like a very lucky boy. How lovely to have christmas presents that your family put so much thought and effort into.

I agree cheerful yank bought tears to my eyes...

DD1 (6) MP3 player with v expensive sound limiting headphones... {I work in health and safety}, plus gogo hamster and car (all I could get...). All she wants is a DS - but I've told her santa won't get her one as Mum and Dad have told him not to...
DD2 (3) Sylvanian caravan and car, plus a rabbit family to go on holiday with. All she wants is a jigsaw - so got one of those too.

DD (6) is getting a wind-up torch that looks like a penguin, some cover-to-cover books on tape (Wizard of Oz, Black Beauty, Secret Garden), some new pyjamas with ballerinas on, and a hamper we are making up - a wicker basket filled with miniature packets of things she likes. So far there's olives, nuts, mini christmas pudding, teeny Green and Blacks bars, and mini jar of honey.

We are skint and we have no more room for bloody toys.

DD (14 months) - VTech tree
DS (2.7) - Happyland Pre-School

Plus a stocking each with some books, a puzzle, some sweets.

Both me and DH both come from big families and their aunts and uncles also get them presents, so we are lucky that the kids end up with loads of toys at no cost to ourselves.

DD (6 by christmas) Main presents, Little Sunshine Doll and Barbie Hair Salon.

Then bits like a couple of DVD's, bath stuff, barbie clothes set (half price with the hair salon).

I refuse to buy tonnes of stuff, we haven't got room for it and she gets too much from GPs, aunties and uncles etc anyway.

DD (2.5) will be getting some Duplo, some books, and probably a Vet's Kit from us. Santa will bring her some 2nd hand and cheap bits (a game, a fairy costume, play dough, chocolate buttons, a card game, safety scissors, a torch and possibly an umbrella).