My nephew
6 years ago, for my nephew's first christmas, the entire family went nuts buying him all sorts of oversized plastic junk, much to the dismay of my sister who had to find somewhere to store it all. As well as the obligatory fisher price mostrosity (bought him a really annoying drum that played songs and had flashing lights) I gave him an old remote control as he always seemed to like playing with them. HIS FAVORITE TOY FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS. thoroughly recommend this for anyone with littluns to buy for. my eldest son also got one for his first christmas and my youngest is about to get his...

My sister and I have developed a nasty tradition of buying each others kids annoying presents, starting with the giant (and i mean giant) nemo i bought her son. the last present she bought my youngest was this.

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trust me, kids love it, but it's so infuriating and very hard to turn off. 'hug me, kiss me in your arms - fill me with your loving charms.' buy it for your loved ones this year.
(Alphabet Soap boshboshboshbosh, Fri 27 Nov 2009, 8:44, 5 replies)

with you on the remote control thing,
also, the best fun my daughter had was when i arranged a load of pots, bowls and assorted kitchen recepticles and gave her two wooden spoons to bash away at them with. Free and easy to store when play time is over.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 27 Nov 2009, 8:59, closed)

toys
young kids seem to hate toys. my son's current favorite playings are a ring spanner and a pair of my old earphones.
(Alphabet Soap boshboshboshbosh, Fri 27 Nov 2009, 9:16, closed)

Little Alfie
If you don't eventually (2 or so years) warm to little alfie, I'm afraid you are dead inside. All the other noise toys my children own have mysteriously lost their batteries but little alfie lives on.

a sleepy, hungry, lightup bear, hey come and hug me. How could you not?

bye bye
( spingers, Fri 27 Nov 2009, 9:41, closed)

Oh no no no no...
I hate that little bastard Alfie. My daughter had one,unfortunately he met with a nasty accident resulting in him losing the power of speech.
(Andino, Fri 27 Nov 2009, 10:09, closed)

Over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over
I'm a friendly like-a-bear,
I'll teach you one, two, three!
A sleepy, hungry, happy bear,
Hey come and hug me.
(Angio can smell your fear just by looking at you., Fri 27 Nov 2009, 11:30, closed)