 Welcome to the Waldoch way. I'm Jessica and today's video is going to be what we got Emily for Christmas. So Emily is a nine-year-old girl. This is going to include her stocking as well as everything that will be under the tree Christmas morning. So if you know Emily in real life, please don't tell her what you're about to see because obviously we want all of this to be a surprise. But we're really hoping to maybe inspire you, give you some ideas or well just let you have a peek into our life. So I'm gonna start with her stocking. I will link the stocking if you like it. We ordered them off of Amazon last year. We all have matching ones with our names on them and inside her stocking we have two our generation like the small little kits and this one is an I love math kit. We get these from Target. It's the math whiz and then this one is the around the world. Emily absolutely loves playing school with her American Girl dolls so I thought this would be a fun addition. She will get you know math and geography so plus you know the home school mom of me loves that. She also has in here a new set of books. This is called Dragon Girls. There are six books currently in the series. I researched for a new series for her for forever and this one looked really fun. It looks like something she would love. The summary on the back of the first one is as Mina, Willa, and Naomi are thrilled to learn their glitter dragon girls summoned to the magic forest by its magnificent ruler the Tree Queen. The girls quickly find out their dragon selves have unbelievable abilities. They can soar above the treetops, breathe the glittery burst of fire, and roar loud enough to shake the ground. Seriously girls, dragons, glitters, magic, what's not to love for her? So I got her that set. She has a Aaron's Thinking Putty. We love these. We keep them in the car. We keep them in my purse. She keeps them in her backpack all over the place but I found a scented one so this is the sensory putty that is scented jam session. And then down in the bottom we have a few games. The first game we have is Trash Pandas, the Rackus Raccoon card game, and then the new unstable unicorns for kids. So that's what's in her stocking. We will probably also throw a few pieces of candy in there. Her favorite are Reese's so we'll probably get her some Reese's Christmas trees. Obviously I'm not going to store chocolate though so that is what's in her stocking. Okay next is going to be her gifts. Now let me go ahead and preface this by saying if you did not watch my gift guides in my holiday halls I'm a themed gift giver which means I normally bundle most of Emily's gifts and you're gonna see that so I'm giving you a heads up ahead of time. Also when we went to see Santa if you follow me on Instagram you already know this if you don't I'm gonna tell you. When we went to see Santa last week I thought I knew what Emily was gonna ask for I had already bought it she's been asking for it since last Christmas when a friend of hers got it but she surprised me and she did not ask for the camera I thought she's gonna ask for it instead she asked Santa for a dolphin because she has been so worried about winter since or about hope since winter passed away at Clear Water Marine Aquarium she wanted Santa to bring her a dolphin for Clear Water Marine Aquarium so basically she wants hope to have a new friend. I said they're crying but obviously we cannot buy her a dolphin so what we did instead is we are giving her the Wild Adventure Vet book which is absolutely gorgeous along with this poly pocket vet ultimate pet care set that we found it's like the ambulance the pet care it's got all of the things in it and she's really been into the poly pocket show on Netflix lately so we thought she would really really like playing with that and again it's that so we're going to give her these two vet things and with a note that we will visit Clear Water Marine Aquarium so we're gonna be giving her that as an experience and that we will make whatever kind of donation they see fit so I have reached out to them by email and I haven't got a response yet and we just want to kind of know the best way to help so if that's monetary then that's what we'll do if it's volunteering that's what we'll do but we just wanted to make it clear to her that we heard her and that we will be doing that but I also wanted her to have a gift so we're gonna give her the vet book with the poly pocket vet set to play with with a note that we will visit Clear Water Marine Aquarium and donate in whatever way they think will best fit them so that is kind of like her big gift because she surprised me her big gift was supposed to be and she will still get it the intact mini camera she had a friend get one last year for Christmas and she begged and begged and begged me for it as a photographer who has literally three really nice expensive cameras that she has access to I originally was like I'm not buying that for you but she's continued to beg for it all year long she likes that the stuff would be printed instantly and so I thought why not it will help her see what she's taking a picture of a little bit quicker because it prints out she'll get that instant satisfaction and who knows what kind of interest it could spark and then if she does end up loving it again I have tons of really nice kind of extensive cameras that she can grow into or use when she's ready so in that we bought the bundle it's the mini camera the camera case and then like a little photo album and quite a few things of film sorry there we go so that is the bundle that we bought her and I'm sure she will still love it even though it's not what she ended up asking Santa for in the end okay a book set this is a book series that she's absolutely loved we have checked out these four first ones from the library a dozen times and I thought it would just be fantastic to add it to our collection so we have a pack architect Rosie Revere engineer Ada twist scientist and this is the one that made me want to go ahead and buy the picture book set for her because she's been watching Ada twist scientists on Netflix she's watched all of them multiple times and she's like mom why don't we have the picture books didn't that you know didn't isn't that what we read first because she has the chapter books so I went back and bought these for her and then Sophia Valdez for future press and then they just released a brand new one into the series and so I went ahead and grabbed that too and that's Aaron Slater illustrator now with these books I got her a new science kit from National Geographic if you've been around here a while you know we love them they're her and Kevin's favorite and they do some sort of science activity once a week but of course it had a shipping delay so it is not here yet so I'm going to show you a picture and it is the National Geographic electricity and battery kit and Lee's been begging to do the potato alarm clock electricity type thing or lemon or whatever so when I saw that and I knew that we were getting her the questionnaire set it just seemed like the perfect bundle so that will be all in one box or bag together and then when I saw that I was getting her the Aaron Slater illustrator I knew like you know how you can just you know your kid and you know that there's certain things they're gonna spark an interest that's gonna spark an interest for her she has a dad who's an artist she loves to draw so when she reads the illustrator book the first thing she's gonna want to do is write a book so that she can illustrate it so when I saw these on us born I knew that they would be perfect and they are a illustrate this book series so the book is written and they need your help to illustrate them so we have the unicorn party my prehistoric pet and one brave astronaut all three of those are topics that she really really likes she loves unicorns dinosaurs and all things space so she will be thrilled to do that and then I got her a set of the subliner pins just like daddy so he has a set of these they're permanent so we haven't been huge you know on letting her have them in the past they're a little expensive but she loves them she knows that daddy uses them so she's gonna be thrilled to have some just like daddy so that will be that gift bundle so yeah I told you I like themed gifts right okay next we have some human body stuff another thing that she's been very interested in lately so I thought we would get her some things to kind of see where that goes I picked up organ attack a few months back and saved it so that will be bundled with three of the doctor Livingston anatomy puzzles so there are seven total puzzles to form the whole body I just got her the first three to see how we felt about them so we have the head which is volume one we have the thorax which is volume two and we have the abdomen which is volume three so again that will all be bundled together and then the last thing I specifically bought for her was this pottery studio it's a potty pottery studio junior and it has everything that you need she has been watching she likes to look over my shoulder when I'm doing it's when I'm watching Instagram stories and my girl Abby from rooted and rest their kids do a pottery class or at least they have been doing one lately and every time she sees them doing pottery and my stories she's like mom I really really like to do that can you find me a pottery class which honestly I haven't had the chance to even look into yet so when I saw this I'm like you know what this is perfect this gives her the ability to kind of see if she likes it if she likes it if it's something she enjoys doing obviously she's got the gift to keep doing it and then I can get her classes and maybe for you know in the future of her birthday or enroll her in something to let her kind of explore that deeper so I'm hoping that this will spark an interest we'll see okay and then there's two more things I wanted to tell you about because they're not necessarily her gifts but it's something that we do and that she'll be getting anyway the first of which is a family gift so we do a family gift for our gift every year it's something that we've done forever I think it's normally passes to somewhere in the past it's been our Disney annual passes last year we bought a laser tag set which was amazing we had so much fun with it because there wasn't a lot of places that you could go and this year we would have bought our universal passes obviously but we got those in September so that we could be you know at Universal for the first day of Harry Potter so that is what we would have done for our family gift and because that was a pricier family gift we needed something that was a little bit more affordable as a Christmas gift so we got a few new games because we love games family game nights or something we do every week and we have really been enjoying tile laying games lately we have fallen in love with a game called patchwork and there's just a few other ones that we really like that are like tile laying so I did some digging and found three kind of interesting tile type laying games that our family is now interested in to a gift us this year so that's the family gift and it will be aquilin which is schooled or get school it's getting pretty crowded here in the reef soon it will be packed to the gills of sea creatures before it fills up completely you have to match as many as you can by laying these tiles so that's one that's a two-player I specifically got that because me and Emily play a lot of games by ourselves so I like having a two-player game or even her and Kevin because there's only three of us because we're homeschooling an only child it's very often that only one parent is playing with her so I do like to try to add a two-player game when we can and so that one is just a two-player game just so you know if you have a big family that might not be the perfect fit for you and this one I know Emily's gonna go gaga for it's called it Calico it's a spatial puzzle game for the whole family players are quilters completing to create the coziest most beautiful quilts so you are drawing the pieces and trying to create your quilt for your cat and she's obsessed with cats so she's gonna love that one and then the last one is Azul I've had this on my wishlist forever I literally look at it every time we go on Barnes and Nobles and it went on sale on Black Friday and so I grabbed it quickly Azul invites you a tiling artist to embellish the walls of the Royal Palace of Aurora and it is just gorgeous like the pieces of the game are so beautiful the last thing that I have is probably kind of silly last year we did a holidays around the world and somehow on our holidays around the world study Emily learned about the tradition where you hide a pickle ornament or a pickle on the Christmas tree and whoever finds it gets a gift so then this year when we were in Target she found a pickle ornament and it commenced to talking me into buying it and wanted to hide it on the tree and see who finds it so obviously since there's just the three of us one of the three of us is going to find the pickle ornament on the tree so I thought it would be super funny if whoever found the pickle ornament actually got a pickle so this is a game that is called in a pickle by game right and we love game right game so I know it's gonna be a hilarious game but it actually comes in a plastic pickle it is kind of a creative wordplay game so for instance on the back they have an example the word baby can be in a bathtub can be in a house can be in Hollywood so it's kind of a word game and you have to try to talk the other players into you know why your word can be in that one like why it can go in it which I just thought would be a fun you know game in general for our family and it can be played with as little as two players which any game that can be played with that few players is always a win in our house so that's it that is what will be under our Christmas tree or in her stocking this year and now I would love it if you would give me ideas so what are you getting your kids what's on their wish list what's you know something that your nine-year-old is desiring this year because while I don't need ideas for this Christmas I'm sure everybody else can use even more ideas and I would love to create an idea bank in the comments so please let me know