Mommy's wish list for John's recovery

I've had a couple of requests for a sort of wish list...

John also loves getting cards in the mail, especially the ones that sing or make noise.
He likes puzzles, he can do the ones with about 24 pieces, usually rated for ages 3 and up.
He has started writing the letters in his name, and can recognize some of them easily. (He has "H" down pat, can write an "N" if he tries, the "O" looks like the Christian fish symbol, and the "J" looks like a backwards "L.") We have a magna-doodle, but very few letters games, aside from Flash Cards.
He is having lots of fun lately playing with the Mattel "World of Cars" matchbox-sized cars from the movie "Cars." Right now he just has Lightning McQueen, but he uses a couple of matchbox cars to represent other characters.

As for board games, we play Memory and Hi-Ho Cherry-O. We also have Candyland, but we haven't worked through the learning curve related to moving pieces around a board. That doesn't seem to interest him so much yet. We also have a Yahtzee, Jr. dice game with Disney Characters, but he's mostly interested in just rolling the dice around.

His favorite movie right now is "Cars," and he frequently acts out scenes from it using his toy vehicles. We watched "Toy Story," which he was lukewarm about, and I wasn't thrilled with, because there is a lot of yelling... "Finding Nemo" is an old favorite, which has left him with an interest in sharks. He has seen parts of "Monsters, Inc.," but hasn't really sparked to it yet. If you have a particular movie in mind, let me know, so that I can make sure we don't have it already.

He is surprisingly proficient at the Nintendo DSLite, and enjoys playing the mini-games in "Smart Boys Game Room." He can maneuver through all the screens to pick the games he likes... the bus driving game, the puzzle game, the train game, and the musical instrument game, mostly.

We have several "going to the hospital books" already, I think we are mostly covered with that. We've started reading "Franklin Goes to the Hospital" and "Curious George Goes to the Hospital." He asked a LOT of questions the first time through each, and he still requests them often. We haven't started talking about the subject in terms of him, except for things that he has already experienced (taking temperature, taking blood pressure, X-rays). We just got another book called "Matty's Heart," which is very detailed about open heart surgery, written for kids, with lots of details for older kids, and easy to abridge for younger kids. Tony and I plan to go through that one together before we delve into it with John.

He's started to understand the process of talking on the phone, so we may have lots of phone calls following the surgery.

If you do send anything on this list, we thank you very much! Please post it in the comments so there aren't any unintentional duplicates. I promise we won't tell John in advance!

Of course at the top of our list is your continued prayers, good wishes, support, and love, but everyone is already doing a FANTASTIC job at that!!!