Christmas Gifts  

Sounds like your kids are going to have a great christmas this year.I have got several presents for most of my grandchildren,a remote control jeep,high school musical hat,scarf and mitten set,manicure sets with make up brushes for the older girls ,having great fun choosing presents for all six of them.My daughter has dropped hints about a jewellery box .my oldest son is getting aftershave,my youngest son who is fifteen has asked for an Arsenal home {kit football}.i tunes vouchers,jeans,jumpers,films ect.We have all said we will buy the adults something small and spend what money we have on the kids.When my youngest son was small he loved Thomas the Tank he had all the books,train sets,playsets.curtains,clothes,everything was Thomas the tank,It nearly drove us crazy in the end but boy do we miss it.They grow up so fast.

well christmas for us will be a little leaner since my hubby lost his job in august but i have already bought our 16 year old a pink fluffy housecoat and some slippers and a necklace set with some earrings and her sister has gotten some small things. now i need to get some big things for my 12 year old (she wants a memory card for her camera) and small things for my 16 year old.

As I do the gift shopping all year round, I make a list of all the gifts I need to get - and write down what I actually buy so I don't forget (the gifts get shoved in the closet - hee hee).

My daughter is 4-1/2 years old. What I have for her thus far are:
A dress with butterflies on it (she loves butterflies)
Hat/glove/scarf set with butterflies
Butterfly calendar
Ornament made of real starfish (another favorite)
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Viewmaster w/ 3 other Disney disk sets
Minnie Mouse Lip Balms
Leap Frog book/dvd set

Honestly, I probably won't be getting her too much else. Money has been very tight lately . . . and I'm sure the rest of our family members will spoil her for Christmas - hee hee. But I do, I'll be sure to get her more art supplies: new markers, pads of paper, play doh - that sort of thing.

Hi Doran,

Wow, that's too many for each kid, they will surely be very happy on Christmas Day. I do have 2 kids too, both boys, 10 and 7 years old. I normally ask them what they want, I buy 2 sets of gift for each child, one supposedly came from me and dad, and one from Santa. They are still very excited receiving "Santa's gift", so I make sure it's one of the gifts they open come Christmas Eve. My younger son wants a Power Ranger toy set, while my older son says anything is OK, because he's happy with his PSP which he got about 2 months ago. It's not going to be a lavish Christmas this year, but I still want it to be an occasion that my kids look forward to every year.

I do the same thing as you by making a list of the things that I have bought them and the things that I still want to get them that way I know and so I can try to get them the same amount as the other.
My daughter who is eight loves playing school so we got her a childrens art easel that has a chalk board on one side and a dry erase board on the other. Then we found fur real pet kitten, a journal that opens to only her voice and two Hannah Montana books. We will still be getting her some clothes and smaller things that I found from now to Christmas as well as things like paper, chalk, crayons, markers, etc. I will end up with about 15 presents a piece for each kid.
As for my son he is big time into both legos and Star Wars, so I have gotten him a plug and play star wars game, 3 different sets of star wars lego that he has been wanting, a Indiana Jones book and a Star Wars Clone Wars book. He will also be getting clothes and then just like my daughter I will just be picking up other small gift till he also has 15 gifts.
I normally do this every year where we will get them 3 or 4 bigger more expensive gifts and then ten to 15 smaller gifts including clothes. We were going to get our daughter a new bike for Christmas but decided that we would wait till her birthday in May since she can't use it due to the snow any how. I think they will be pretty happy with what they are getting and it sounds like children will be too..

I hope you are getting the kids helmets to do with those scooters. I have seen several injuries from them.

My son always got his share of socks and underwear. He usually got sporting equipment. He was a such a jock.

This year (he is 23 now), he is getting a gift certificate toward the new bike he wants.

My son's 6th birthday this year was AWESOME, and I want his Christmas to be the same. For his birthday I threw a party for him at a moonbounce place called JUMP ON IT, and it was awesome. As soon as he got there he was like "I like this place!" I went all out on the party favors. The plastic bags that the party favors came in were HUGE and filled with lots of Madagascar 2 items. He's now into planets and stars and space, so I plan on getting him a telescope, as well as other space things I can find. He's also into Transformers, so I'm getting some Transformers stuff as well. I love Christmas!