[blparent] cool gifts?

Thu Jan 3 17:15:02 UTC 2013

WTF with Santa?
I'm being serious here, check with the mall and see where they get Santas helpers. His helpers need to go to Santa School and there really is such a place.
One of the things they are trained not to do is to tell kids what they will get. Mostly, they're trained in how to listen, how to observe parents, and also how to touch and hold kids appropriately.
You may want to call the mall, tell them that Santa's helper said something inappropriate (which he did) and see how the mall vets them.
You could have also not gotten the Dora House and told Sarah that she was talking to a helper (because the real Santa is at the North Poll) and she can write a letter to Santa if she still wants the Dora House next year.

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 12:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] cool gifts?

I didn't know there was more than one Dora dollhouse.  This one is called
The Dora Playtime Together Dollhouse, from Wal-Mart.  It has three floors,
and not that much comes with it, so we bought the furniture packs.  We had
already bought other things for Sarah's Christmas when this idiotic Santa at
the mall said she could have the dollhouse if she remembered to be a good
girl, so we scrambled and got it, then saved the other things for her
birthday which will be only two months later anyway.

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeri Milton
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 9:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] cool gifts?

Hi Jo Elizabeth.
Sounds like Sarah is very happy. Which Dora house is it? Kate got one last
year, but it's pretty small and the toylet doesn't do that. The lid lifts
up, but that's it. Also I didn't know about the aditional pieces that you
can buy to go with it like the pool etc. Are you talking about the Dora and
Me one or a different one? I know, there's so many. But, we did get the cold
as well. Smile.

Jeri

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 8:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] cool gifts?

Sarah got her coveted Dora the Explorer dollhouse.  You aren't kidding about
the toilet.  This one makes flushing sounds and everything.  She got some
money for Christmas, so of course we all had to go to Target, where she got
the swimming pool and the treehouse that go with the main house.  We also
seem to have caught another cold, unfortunately.

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tammy
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 2:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] cool gifts?

Hi,

Those presents sound cool especially the guitar.  My sons got a nintendo
mini which we haven't hooked up yet but I'm sure they'll love since Colyn's
wanted one for awhile now.  Colyn also got a digital light designer and some
leapfrog games.  Remus got some colour wonder books and markers to go with
them as well as a paint palot also by colour wonder.  Ashlyn got a rocking
singing dancing elmo which she loves, and a kitchen set and a doll house
with all the furnature in it, even the toilet.  lol  I got my husband his
harp which he's been wanting for almost his whole life so he says, and of
course that had to come with lessons because he doesn't know how to play it
yet.  I got a replacement for my victor reader stream, or rather, i got a
step up because my husband got me the plextalk.  I really like it, and I got
to give my VR to Colyn who reads his books on it using headphones because
the speaker doesn't work anymore.

Tammy

-----Original Message-----
From: Veronica Smith
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 4:25 PM
To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: [blparent] cool gifts?

Hello, hopefully you and your family had a great holiday.  So what kind of
cool and nifty gifts did your kiddos come away with?
Gab got a Brother's sewing machine which she is waiting patiently to try
out.  Our tables are cluttered right now with Christmas decorations and the
like, so there is no where to set her portable machine.  Santa left a large
bean bag dorm chair and my friend gave her a guitar (hand me down)  She will
soon meet up with her cousins from Florida on the 3rd and they will again
exchange more gifts.  I guess you could say, Christmas day here is a long
lasting event. Haha Anyway, what did you all give or get.
V

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