Exersaucer

Today I am playing with the Baby Einstein Discover and Play exersaucer. My friend William gave it to me. Mama says he "loaned" it to me, but I'm not sure I want to know what that really means.

Let me count the ways I love this toy.

• One. I can flip my 2-paged big-girl book pages back and forth, back and forth. If I lean far enough forward, I can also gum the purple sides.
• Two. I can cram the entire triangle on the soft tower of shapes in my mouth. I think if I get bigger, I can get that square in as well.
• Three. When I lean on the big buttons I hear MOOOO and COW and VACA. I have no idea what these mean. But when I lean on it again, music plays! Mama always dances along to the music and claps her hands. How does she do that?
• Four. I can bend the happy star to me and drool all over it for minutes.
• Five. I can turn around and around and around and around in the seat. Every time I turn myself, I find a new toy to play with! Mama helps by putting new toys all around the seat so I can pick up and throw a toy as I go around.

There are only a couple of things I don't like. There is a soft dinosaur that I never play with. I wish it would get out of my way so I could see Mama. I like how big the seat is, but I often lose the toys that Mama sets on the top. This makes me angry when I can hear my baby radio, but it's stuck by my tummy.

I give the exersaucer 5 out of 5 binkys. It is easy to play in, lets me play standing up like a big girl, and doesn't let me topple over.

Why would William ever give this up?

Mailbox

Today I am playing with the Fisher Price Laugh & Learn™ Learning Letters Mailbox. Or as I call it, my mailbox.

I love to twirl the little ball on the snail. I love to flip, and flip, and flip that little ball and make it twirl as fast as I can.

I can open the mailbox door, but it's not very fun after that. The handle is small to hold for my pudgy hands, but I’m a smart girl and can do it by myself. I keep trying to grab the little birdie on the top. He doesn’t do much and is hard to move to get the music to play, but maybe as I get bigger I will learn how to take it off.

Sometimes I do topple the entire thing on myself, but Mama helps hold it down for me.

Sometimes when I open the mailbox, a binky is sitting there! I wonder how it gets there? The music is fun, but I wish the woman didn’t say “let’s mail some LETTTEEEERRRRSSSS” so loudly. Mama is getting sick of hearing it, and so am I.

Overall, I would give it 3 out of 5 binkys. It’s easy to play with, provides me a distraction from my binky, and is amusing enough for Mama to play with it.

Now, if I could only figure out how to mail a letter.

Binky

It's pretty simple. I love my binky. My binky is my best friend except for my mama and dada. When I'm feeling blue, the binky is there. When I need to fall asleep, the binky is there. When I want to practice rolling around, my binky helps me focus.

Now, I'm already 7 months old. I realize one day my binky might not always be there.

[Shudder].

Until that day comes, I want to tell you all about the toys I play with and what I think about them and especially, how they compare to my binky.

Simply put, I'm not sure what's out there, but I'm ready to find out what might be BEYOND THE BINKY.