Amazing Amanda: That’s All I Want For Christmas Mommy!
Interactive dolls have always fascinated me and although I never had one as a child. I have read a lot about them. I even have a website that is dedicated to interactive dolls.
Aiyana has been chattering about the Amazing Amanda doll for quite some time. It’s odd, because she doesn’t play with dolls too much. But she is intrigued by Amazing Amanda. We watched a few videos on YouTube. I believe what she finds the most intriguing about Amazing Amanda is the amount of interaction that the doll carries on with their mother. Amazing Amanda has voice recognition and it will actually recognize their “mommy”. If it doesn’t recognize you Amazing Amanda will say, “You’re not my mommy, Where’s my mommy?”
Amazing Amanda is a doll I’ll have to program. It takes about ten minutes to set up. Guess what? When you change her batteries you have to reprogram it again. The cool thing is that Amazing Amanda recognizes the “mommy, interacts with you. Amazing Amanda also recognizes the variety of accesssories that is included with it. How does it recognize it’s accessories? Radio frequency tags are put into Amazing Amanda’s accessories. Amazing Amanda is wirelessy informed of what it is interacting with. Pretty cool, huh?
My daughter emulates her mommy in that she is fascinated by technology heck I have to admit this doll fascinates me also and I rarely played with dolls as a child let alone interactive dolls.
I checked out the reviews on Amazing Amanda and overall they are good. I have read some reviews where it states that “Amanda” could not recognize her mommy. In many of the cases the child appeared to be young so I’m wondering if this had anything to do with the child not speaking clearly when chatting with Amazing Amanda? Well we’ll be finding out at Christmas since I’ll be purchasing Amazing Amanda for Aiyana. I don’t do too much for the Christmas holidays but I do buy Aiyana a few presents.
I’m glad I waited to purchase it. Amazon has it for $39.99 it was priced at $119.00 a little while ago.
Question: If you celebrate a holiday during December and are buying gifts what are some of the things you are purchasing?
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on December 14th, 2007 at 5:26 am
Our youngest daughter and her family in Wisconsin are getting a 6 ft. LL Bean toboggan, which we are delivering. Our oldest and her boyfriend are getting a tent and sleeping bags, The grandkids, age 7 and 5, are getting Crayola digital cameras and a snowman kit (stove-pipe hat, plastic pieces of coal, a carrott for a nose, etc,). We are getting each other an office chair (two total - one for each of us,)
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on December 14th, 2007 at 7:10 am
Mike,
Those are great Christmas gifts.
I remember one year, for father’s day, my mom bought Lazy Boy chairs for my father. I remember he was fussing about how much my mother spent on them. Not sure why she works anyway later that day I saw him sleeping in one of the chairs he didn’t like. At the time, I was visiting their home. I took a photo of that because it was hilarious. He was fussing about the chairs and I caught him sleeping in one of them! :lol:
on December 14th, 2007 at 9:20 am
We had a double whammy this year as Chanukah and Son One’s birthday intersected. Our tradition for Chanukah is 7 minor gifts and one major gift on the last day. We also include a gift we give to charity. : )
So this year we purchased books for tweens via a local program at Barnes and Noble which provides books to families living in homeless shelters. Son One said, “The little kids probably get way more than the bigger ones. So I want to get something for them.” Son Two agreed. And so it twas done.
Gifts for the kids were:
Verticon game
Shrek 3 DVD
Willy Wonka DVD
Son two inherited his brothers old iPod Nano (which used to be mine!) and we purchased an iFrogz case to go with it. (Son One’s birthday gift was a new nano.)
each kid received an itunes gift card of ten dollars
ifrogz case for new nano
DVD family feud (Huge hit, but we adjusted the rules so it was easier to play with a 12 year old and a 7.5 year old.)
headphones for ipod (GE brand made specifically for kids. I think they were about 9 dollars.)
socks (Target.) I give them every year, along with underwear, as an homage to the Jon Lovitz “Hanukkah Harry” skit.
And that’s it. I shop the sales and I take this time to use up any gift cards we have collected over the year to offset the cost of some of the selected items. So while some of the items aren’t a bargain, I don’t usually pay full retail on them. : )
on December 14th, 2007 at 10:35 am
wow, I think I want that doll! I love dolls.
I bought my husband a electric plainer. He is into woodworking. They delivered it the other day and I had to drag it up the stairs into the house. it weighs 85 pounds! Yikes! LOL He also got some new clothes. He was going to get a new chair as well, but couldnt find one he liked LOL Of course we both got the heated mattress pad, and that is wonderful!!
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on December 14th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
I had bought my great niece that very same Amazing Amanda doll (unfortunately it was at a much higher price than the good deal you got, but well, I only have one great niece so that was okay). I just wanted you to know that it seems like a great doll. I can understand it not working properly for someone a little too young who may not know how to try to keep a consistent voice when speaking commands to the doll, but I think Aiyana is probably old enough and should be able to handle it just fine. I hope she enjoys it!
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on December 14th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Your post just gave me a big trip back through time! Grade 3, it was, and my friend Jane brought her new Christmas doll in to school, to “Show and Tell” — I think that was my first real experience of envy, avarice, pure unadulterated greed. It w as a ballerina doll in the most beautiful sparkling tutu, and you’d hold her by the tiara, and she would dance. And I never was even all that keen on dolls, as a child. But that one — oh! how I wanted to make the ballerina dance! Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
on December 17th, 2007 at 5:44 am
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