I love random gift requests! Leo has been drafting his Christmas wish list and it got me thinking: what is the most out-there thing that your children have put on their wish list? What is the weirdest, most random thing that they have asked you for?
When Leo was two years old, the nurse at our pediatrician’s office asked him what Santa was going to bring him for Christmas and, without missing a beat, he replied, “A penguin in a boat.”
The penguin in a boat thing didn’t happen that year.That was also the year that he told everyone Santa was going to fill his stocking with trucks and T’s with cupcakes.
That Easter, we explained that the Easter Bunny usually leaves candy in your basket. Leo insisted that the Easter Bunny would actually be delivering, “Goats. Two big goats.” It was so random and hilarious our family members would repeatedly ask him what the Easter Bunny was going to leave for him, to which he always responded exactly the same: “Goats. Two big goats.”
When Leo was three years old, he asked Santa for Cindy Lou Who and a disco ball.
Santa did get him a disco ball ornament.At five, Leo asked for “an abandoned beehive” for Christmas.
Nope. Didn’t happen.At six, Leo wanted spy gear, including night-vision goggles. And this year, Leo has asked for an herbal medicine kit with dock and comfrey leaves.
So, tell me: What have your kids asked you for that made you laugh? Share them here and we can all have a good laugh!
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Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
~Martin Mull
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My oldest does this every year. In the past it’s been a slice of cheese, neon gas, a giant electromagnet… This year it’s potatoes. Careful kid. Don’t tempt me.
I am laughing SO HARD right now!!!
My, now 5yo, asked for “a cow that moos” for Christmas when she was 2yo (we did it! In toy form of course). This year she has asked for “a cat that does everything she says” and her 2yo brother has asked for “Christmas Poo”! Don’t think we’ll be doing that one…. Lol ?
When my daughter was three, she requested “a red banjo” and we couldn’t even find a regular banjo to paint red.
My daughter asked for ‘a magic wand’ one year and was unimpressed with the wand she received, eo the next year she asked for ‘a REAL magic wand’. When that didn’t happen she moved on to suction boots to climb the ceiling. I remember asking Santa for crutches and a wheelchair as a kid.
My son asked for radioactive marbles one year. Pretty sure we’re on a watch list somewhere… ; ) https://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&keyword=radioactive+marbles
This year my daughter (age 8) asked for a small fairy as big as your thumb (Thumblina). I said, “oh like a little doll?” Nope, a “real fairy or a real girl just as big as your thumb, or maybe as big as your hand, which do you think would be better?” Last year she asked for Santa to clean up her room, and rearrange it in a cool way. I told her that would be too hard for him and she said nope he is strong he brought a drum set down the chimney, remember? This is not related but once when she was really little, she wished for “robots for all my friends,” at a penny wishing pond. That made me laugh (I wasn’t supposed to hear her I think).
One of mine sat n Santa’s lap and asked for a “pig ballerina doll-on December 23rd (we see Santa earlier now). Another asked for a fly swatter (hard to find in December). A third wanted “a yellow rake”-another December non-winner. I’m happy to report that all three requests were filled. 🙂