Our kids have been trained to fast forward through commercials on television which can be so handy. We don't get near the amount of toy requests that I suspect we would if we were TiVo-less. However, there's no TiVo for the mailbox. The evidence is in my kitchen. That's where the holiday toy catalogs are starting to turn up - on the table, the bar, the counter. They are already getting dog-earred, circled, and marked. Josiah has started leaving drool stains in electronic sections. Micah is often overheard exclaiming, "Whoa! Look at THIS!" - and it usually involves some sort of building project that appears incredibly do-able in the picture. Even Emerie perused a catalog yesterday, circled items and wrote a big 'E' next to each one. She learned quickly from her brothers. Most everything she circled involved a princess, a fairy (or dressing up as either one), a doll, that doll's house or furniture or clothes, or cooking. Yep, that pretty much covers it.