Dear Father Christmas, Daddy Wants…

The Toddler Review Daddies likes nice shiny things with flashing lights and things they can read whilst they’re sitting on the toilet…

Motorola DEXT with MOTOBLUR
from £19.57/month with Orange (24 month contract)
My friends Daisy and Jasmine’s Daddy’s liked playing with this but said it’s not as good as their iPhones and feels a bit clunky. My Daddy said his phone is all old and rubbish though and that he wouldn’t sniff at one of these .. I think he must have a cold. He likes the slidey out bit with all the pretty keys on and says it would be good for his fingers because they don’t work on touch screens. Sometimes my fingers don’t work on Mummy’s iPhone when they’re covered in chocolate. It’s got all that whizzy interweb business on it too that we have on our website like facebook and tweeter. It fits into his pocket much better than Mummy’s iPhone and has a better camera to take piccies of ME.

Allison Wiffen Big Ben Cufflinks Rowena Park Acrylic Striped Cufflinks
from £40 from blue dog jewellery
My Daddy mainly wears jeans and t-shirts and looks a bit scruffy, but he really likes these cough links … especially the ones with the big clocks on. Ted calls them tick tocks, but they’re clocks. When Daddy goes to work he wears smart clothes and he said if he had any shirts with holes in them he’d put these in instead of buttons. I like the stripey ones more. Eva’s Daddy says he would NOT wear the tick tocks because he works at The Government and that would be silly.

Tiny Acts of Rebellion by Rich Fulcher
£10
I like stories but Daddy said that he can’t read this to me at bedtime because it has lots of naughty words in it. We saw the man that wrote this book at The Mighty Boosh festival once and he made Daddy laugh a lot. He’s also a very good dancer, nearly as good as me. He stole my moves. Daddy has already put this in his bathroom upstairs and since then his poos have taken longer than normal. Daddy says the Secret Santa advice on page 77 is good and he laughed a lot when he read it. I might see if I can swap it for Fantastic Mr Fox because it sounds like it might be even funnier.

Clinique Skin Supplies for Men
£various (see website for details)
Mummy says she wishes she had asked for tubes and lotions for her rather than Daddy. We got 3 tubes and 3 boxes to try out. Daddy says the moisturiser makes his face nice and soft and he likes the smell and that the boxes and tubes look like boys things so Mummy won’t steal them. He wasn’t sure about the makeup so maybe Mummy can have that .. sometimes Mummy paints my nails but Daddy would look silly. When Daddy used to have a stash he didn’t have to shave as much but he said that the shaving cream was very good and he didn’t have to put any little bits of toilet paper on his face afterwards.

Sonia Spencer Personalised Childrens Art Keyring
£17
I like painting and sticking and colouring and so does Ted but he snatches my pencils and draws on the walls which is naughty. Daddy says that this keyring is good because he can put our pictures in it and Mummy says it looks much nicer than those other plasticy type ones you can get. It comes in a very smart box and the one we saw had pictures of doggies in it. I don’t think I can make pictures that small but Daddy says they use a special magic computer to shrink big pictures so that they fit. I think Ted prefers Daddy’s robot keyring but me and Mummy like this better.

Giggles Computer Funtime for Baby
£19.95
Once when Daddy used to work from home we bashed his laptop and he said he’d lost something and then went all red and shouty.

He says this cdvd is good for putting on when we want to play on his laptop so that he doesn’t get all red and shouty again.

There’s loads of fun games to play and even Ted is allowed to have a go .. he likes making the tiger dance best but I want a plug in tv wee game like Elliott.

Rockabye Baby - Lullaby Renditions of Christmas Rock Classics
£14.99
Daddy really really really like music and he especially likes this music because he says it chills us out. Sometimes he says that when it’s not even cold.

He says that there’s songs by two of his favouritest bands on here called Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam .. we had a pumpkin for Halloween but we didn’t get to smash it. I like jam though. I like dancing a lot but these choons make me feel sleepy.