X-mas greeeat successsss for all of us!

Such a nice evening last night..
tons of big and small gifts for Dora under a nice mellow and humble christmas tree...

Dora got not only a new Ballerina dress (pink!) but also her favorite favorite favorite princess dress (pink!)...

For my part I am happy and relieved that all the geeky toys I got her are things she actually enjoys.. (got them all at the infamous ingenious thinkgeek.com )
And that's why I can only recommend these highly: Apparently they are great for 3+ year olds already:

• Bilibos: she got a big bilibo and a mini bilibo
  (both in pink.. another mini one in orange she apparently "saves for my baby brother")
  
  
• Ball of Whacks: such a blast for both of us! Pretty easy to use for her to make it a ball .. and a loddaloddalodda fun for Daddy too :)
• A magic wand: Every princess needs a magic wand! This geeky levitation stick actually works fairly easy, comes with a nice little butterfly for Dora to start it.. and she actually learns to fly it fairly fast ... I'm impressed each time to see how fast she actually learns stuff..
• Sporks: As she loves her IKEA plastic colored spoons, forks and knifes I thought she's old enough to learn that categories such as spoons, forks and knifes are not distinct... hence the one-in-all
  
• Squishy bowls: ... yes they are actually shot glasses .. oh well.. she can't start early enough I guess.. no, but she loves pink and red and a small drinking bowl that can be squished seems just the right thing for her..
• The Mon-keys (I got them mostly for the bad pun but also to tell keys apart in my key set) were a greeat successs .. Dora got the pink one and now she practices daily to open all kinds of doors with her key..
  

Finally we also got a Wii (with the obligatory Sports which is fun.. Dora plays it much better than I had ever imagined.. we're still waiting for a "Go, Diego, Go" game though that should be a little better suited for her..

Ok.. enough posting.. Dora just tells me about a 'blues clues' story on noggin... gotta catch that one..