What are you buying your DC's for Christmas?

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Looking for a bit of inspiration as we have only got DS little bits.

Love your DS's list!

Going to try a micro scooter, DS is 2.

Been in and bought 3DS for ds & DD.

Was going to get Dsi but was told in future all the latest games are going to be 3D.

Anyhow, you CAN play the ordinary ds games you have on them so they are not wasted after all. They just wont play in 3D. It has a slider so you can alter the 3d strength to zero and was told there is a parental lock to keep 3D off.

ALSO Game has offer. You can trade in a DSlite and get the 3D for £69.99 (which I did) which is good saving as mostly range from £149 to £159. Some 3d games are by one get one free. And if you buy it without trade in its £154 plus free game of choice. I took in all the old ps2 games I had kicking around and got £15 off the second one

And no DS doesnt play with toys hence the building stuff as he is mad about building symetrical shapes. The moonsand is to use as sensory.

DS age 7 (ASD)

lego (a few sets)
toy story action links (a few sets)
Octonauts playset

He likes to set up toys and scenes but doesn't play with them he got a toy story lego set for his birthday last month, he had wanted it for nearly a year. He set it all up and that is how it has stayed. No one is allowed to touch it or move it.

Also got him some practical stuff:
disney cars hoodie
toy story towel
DR WHO pjs
and some stocking fillers

We are putting all Ds2's birthday (Oct) and Christmas money from family and friends towards softplay and sensory equipment for a sensory integration room we're converting. He doesnt like opening presents so wont mind not having thngs to unwrap at Christmas. But I am VERY tempted to buy him just one thing - an air swimmer - remote controlled helium ballon clown fish that swims in the air, which I think he would love ( big Nemo fan).

Ds1 will get some of the items on the 4 page list he has made (!) - Lego, Ds games and books. How he can fit any more Lego onto shelves that are already populated by the entire Bionicle army is beyond me, but never mind....

WhoWho, that's exactly what ds1 used to do when he was younger.

Eg he used to love diggers and dumper trucks and had lots of them, along with a construction site rug/playmat and accessories etc. He'd spend hours setting everything up, putting things in exactly the right place and then no-one was allowed to touch it - sometimes for days. (Which wasn't great as he favoured setting it up in the middle of the living room floor and wouldn't let us move it for days on end.)

Trouble started when ds2 got old enough to want to actually play with the diggers and drive them around on the mat though.

He even had sticker books, reference books, story books and even dvds about diggers. Actually, he still insists, even now, on having the duvet cover and pillowcase with diggers on that we bought him back then. We only have one set, so I have to get it washed and dried while he's at school because he won't sleep with anything else.

I'll never forget him rendering a local workman speechless when he stopped to point out his digger, complete with it's precise make, model and reference number etc. Iirc, he was barely 3 at the time!

He has a shelf for all the Lego kits he's built, high above his bed where ds2 can't reach them. Like Sphil's ds though, there's no room left for any more, but that hasn't stopped him asking for lots of new sets for Christmas. It seems he's currently building up to a new lego fascination. It seems its going to be Lego Alien Conquest - so that will probably end up needing another shelf to house it as well.

Sphil, I saw those air swimmers. The clown fish one is great - but somehow I find the shark one a bit scary.

Its ds2 that loves Bionicles in this house - ds1 loves the Bionicle computer game, but insists the actual Bionicle figures 'aren't proper Lego'.

We had an inflatable sandbox filled with moonsand that i thought DS would like to play with his diggers in,but no the first chance he got he hoovered it all up because he didnt like the feel off it .
So now we have a sandbox filled with dried pasta in the corner of the living room that he plays with all the time.He says its rocks.
So i think santa might be fetching some nice shiney pebbles and more diggers.

ohhhh coff33
thats i good deal you got with the 3d ds,i am worried about his eyes though....
i seen a button on the side that turns off the 3d,is that it though?coz my lad will soon find that!!
my hubby wants to get the 3d one.

DS2 asks to play with his moonsand if he sees it, but once its out, he's not happy with the "feel" of it.

crazygal when I take DS to school in the morning I will unhide it and check it out for you :) DH had to zoom upstairs quickly before they spotted the bag lol

They did say there was a parental lock so hopefully they were right. If it isnt then DS will play only ordinary ds games on it. But I will let him play the 3d videos then he will feel the same as his sister. Let you know in the morning :)

crazygal

www.3dsgamenews.com/2010/12/3ds-has-a-parental-lock-for-the-3d/
There ya go just found this. So you can either lock it permanently or time its usage :)

The 3DS lock does work perfectly. DH had a 3DS for a couple of months and we didn't want DS to play 3D games as he gets sick.

thats a great link coff33,
thank you,:)

Ds1 wrote his letter to santa tonight....and we have got him most of the stuff on his list!!!!

Ds2 "doesnt like santa" so not sure whether to take his gifts back???

I didn't like Santa either Beca. I used to make my Mum promise she wouldn't let him in my bedroom!

DS not fond of santa too,when he was in year 1 mainstream they didnt warn him santa was turing up to the christmas party because they didnt want to spoil his suprize.Well i think santa was more surprized than DS when he got a punch in the family jewels.
Now we just spend all december reassuring DS that santa is not allowed in this house but he will leave new toys on the doorstep for mummy to put under the tree

DS & DD came downstairs with two new lists (dd wrote ds for him).............

I promtly took a look and wrote 2012 in the top corner of each and told them santa was on the phone earlier and he is only taking bookings now for next xmas cruel mummy...........

Fortunately I have sorted out what they had on their lists apart from dds of iphone, xbox, ipad2, oh and in brackets to iphone (blackberry if not) ended off with a giant cuddly tiger.............I really need to point out she is 10 lol and I am not a millionaire

ineed

coff I think you might be an evil genius of some sort!

Ds1 really doesnt like the idea of santa either, but is prepared to put up with him because santa = presents. He's not daft

Lol coff33, I said the exact same thing to my boys this morning after daftly telling them about the 3d parental control and suggesting they might like a 3ds for their birthdays.

Off course they both immediately announced they wanted one for Christmas, but I bought the last of their presents last night.

So I told them that unfortunately Father Christmas has closed the Christmas list collection department for this year - but they could put it on next year's list if they wanted to.

All of a sudden they thought having one for their birthdays would be fine.

Of course that preceeded the huge bust up because I dared to suggest he come and do the new self-organisation system (checklist ) that his inclusion worker insisted on setting him up with yesterday - despite my already telling her several times it won't work for ds. Fgs, he simply won't do it and even if he fills it in he won't check it - exactly the same as the school diary I already complete with him twice daily. Of course she's a professional, so obviously she knows my son better than I do.

This morning he wanted to conga round the kitchen with dd rather than fill it in, which in another situation would probably have been cute and funny, but not when we're already pushed for time and I'm trying to get him to address his organisational issues.

Er, sorry - excuse the rant. Feeling a tad stressed this morning.

DS2 doesn't quite understand the link between Father Christmas and presents. He thinks Father Christmas is nice, and love the presents, but when someone asks him what he'd like Father Christmas to bring him, he's baffled and stammers something quietly as he just doesn't understand the concept (or the question, I suppose). And we're in for about a month of this, just like last year, as EVERYONE seems to ask him, it's already started.

DS2: 5, ASD - Leappad explorer plus various odds and ends.
DS1: 8, ASD and ADHD - Lego! Plus colouring pencils (he was actually asking for some the same brand as I got him, last night!), bendaroos, an encyclopedia of astronomy and Guinness World Records 2012 plus some fraction and decimal equivalency cubes that he's been nagging for. His 8th birthday is in a couple of weeks and he's getting a Lego Advent Calender and a Lego bedding set! (he, um, likes lego!)

You didn't go to Toys R Us, did you, Coff33pot? They tried to spin us the same crap when DS1 specifically wanted a DSi as his out of nappies at last reward!

The 3DS has been a total flop and has lost money for Nintendo.

No Ouryve I went into the shop called Game and they are also online. :)

I had already been in before though and was pricing up Dsi privately for DS to have as his old DS screen was on way out.

DD already has a Dsi that she uses to video capture as they do film making at school and she has been interested ever since so wanted 3DS.

The Dsi was £139 in the shop at the time. When I went back in this week they had a good trade in offer if you bring in and old DSlite the 3ds would be £69.99 so that is less than half! I had two DS lites at home so it had to be done lol.

It was just the fact that I thought it didnt play the old games and the 3d issue that put me off but infact they do play them and you can lock it :)

Ds 16 is having a new laptop as his current one is on its last legs. Offered ipad but no thanks it's a bit too different for his liking. He'll then get the customary annuals, top gear dvd, harry hill and merlin dvd (these are staples there every year) New pens, some fiddlies and a game for his ps 3 (usually FIFA or Pro Evolution Soccer) If we stick to this it's a guaranteed success, if we waste time buying things we think he'd like he'll get stressed out and miserable and hide himself away.

Dd wants everything her eyes see but will get a Nintendo 3ds, games, lots of books, lots of craft stuff, Barbie and Prince Nicholas, some Monster High trash (because she wants it desperately) Harumika (bet I get roped in doing that) Beano and Dandy annuals because she loves them. What she will love best is stuff in her stocking 50 tiny pokemon figures in a tin, Mario, Luigi ,Peach and the others two inch figures and ten Beano characters plastic Mcdonalds toys.