9. Cary Saito, 5

• "Sunflowers in a pot that I can water every day."
• "A purple lava lamp as big as me."
• "A glow pen. It's a pen that glows. I want green."
• "Shoes -- the ones my sister has."
• "A dog stuffed animal. A soft one, like my sister has."

10. Clara Siegmund, 6

• "I wish I could ask for another bike because when I got my bike last year, I heard Santa Claus, and this time I want to get up and see him! I don't want the bike. I just want to see Santa."
• American Girl clothes. "Mine's name is Josefina and she comes from New Mexico. I lost her top at my cousin's house. She still has her skirt."
• The fifth Harry Potter book. "I've been waiting for a year. It's really hard."

11. Paul-Michael Wayans, 6

• "A training motorcycle. It looks like a Kawasaki. It's got gas and you can actually ride it. If you want to go speedy, you can go speedy, but if you don't want to go speedy, you don't have to."
• Transformer Robots.

12. Gabriel Rosen, 5

• Nintendo GameCube.
• GameBoy Advance.
• Galidor for GameBoy Advance. "It's just a game, but it's cool."

13. Jared Hoffman, 8

• "G.I. Joe vs. Cobra. It's a bad guy. He tries to take over the world."
• "A trip to the Queen Mary in California. In 1934 it was an ocean liner, but it's now a hotel. It's really scary because -- get this -- I read in a magazine that ghosts, one in thirties garb and one in sixties garb, appear near the swimming pool where they drowned."

14. Lily Wittrock, 8

• "A golden retriever. I've been waiting, like, three years!"
• Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies.
• Jewelry. "I like dressing up in my room and pretending I'm a fancy lady. When my friends come over, we have tea parties."
• Boxcar Children books.

15. Ben Dougherty, 7

• Yu-Gi-Oh! cards.
• Bionicles.
• A toy pirate ship.

16. Imani Yisrael-Spicer, 5

• Barbie Talking Townhouse.
• Sketchers 4 Wheelers.
• "A baby poodle, black and white. I saw someone walking a blue-and-white one to the bus."

17. Jack Smith Marooney, 6

• Yu-Gi-Oh! cards and a Yu-Gi-Oh! game.
• Harry Potter Legos.
• A chemistry set, "so I can learn different potions that explode and stuff."
• "A big robot that shoots an armadillo out of its leg. It's a Power Ranger thing."