Baby Toys
Every baby needs their favorite plushy right? I think we should get our baby a Giant Microbe. I posted about these last year, I liked Ebola back then but I am quite partial to the Pond Scum and the Dust Mite now.
Really though, I was reading a study the other day that one toy stands above them all for teaching baby’s about problem solving. Blocks. Yes, just simply colorful blocks. (Yay for cheap!) I want the blocks I had as a kid.
Actually I think they were my dad’s blocks from his childhood. He still has them I am sure. They are wooden and painted and are in a little wooden wagon. I don’t know if I played with them as a child. I do remember my hoards of plushies though, so many that if I put them all in my bed I didn’t fit with them. My brother and I use to play “animal wars”, the red animals against the blue ones. My brother was quite partial to Tonka Toys. Not the crap plastic ones that they have now, but the old metal ones with all those little choking hazard parts; you know, the good ones!
What was your favorite toy as a child?
I still have my favorite, it is a brown horse plushy named Star.