I signed up for the exchange on behalf of my son and daughter, who both love the game. I was praying that I wouldn't get the extended remix album of stampy reading the longest book in the world or else I may have gone insane.

No!! Santa gave me an even better gift!! BRIBERY!!!

As in: "Finish your chores or you won't get to open your box!"

and "Stop watching that Stampy video or you can't play with your gift!"

As you can see in the pictures, girl child immediately claimed the foam sword, relegating boy child to the smaller, but equally cool blocks.

They then proceeded to thwack everything they encountered: The couch, the dog, each other.

Boy child was not having any of it, after his sister unequally distributed the thwacking between them. He realized he had not one but TWO small, harder blocks that could be used to represent his frustration!

He then threw the blocks as hard as his five year old arms could manage, straight at his sister. Sister then tried to deflect the blocks with the foam sword, and a new game was created: MINECRAFT BALL!!!

So, thank you, Santa, for giving me the gift of sending my kids outside for an afternoon to boss each other around and get angry at the changes of rules to better suit the current situation, instead of having to listen to that damn stampy again and again. I had a peaceful, quiet afternoon that ended with more bribery "Stop pinching each other or I'll take your gifts away!"