Mini Bottle

Today I am playing in Mama's diaper bag. Hmmm...let's see what we can find.

Oh, what's this? This looks like a bott-tull. My favorite kind of toy.

Hmmm...this is much smaller than a normal bott-tull.

What is this, Mama?

Baby powder? To powder babies? Whatever. It is the perfect size for me. I'm going to keep it forever!

I give this teeny tiny baby-sized bott-tull 5 out of 5 binkys. It's like it was made for my little hands to hold. It was so easy to carry with me. I took it every where I went all morning. Finally, Mama had to give me my real milk bott-tull, so I put this one down. Huh. I wonder where that went?

Xylophone

Today I am playing with the Little Tikes Tap A Tune Xylophone. My Grandma Jackie gave this to me when she visited. I love the little stick. I like to pull and pull and pull and pull the stick to try to get it off the big red thing with all of the fun buttons and colors. It won't come off though. So, sometimes I just sit next to it and gum the yellow stick. Ah, that feels good.

Mama sometimes makes silly noises with the big red part. I'm not sure how she does it, but I'm sure one day I will want to know.

For now? I give the yellow stick 3 out of 5 binkys. I would give it more if it wasn't binky clipped to the big red thing. As for the rest of the toy? We'll have to see.

Drums

Today I am playing with the Fisher-Price Go-Baby-Go Crawl-Along Drums. My Auntie Jen gave this to me when I was learning how to crawl. Somehow Mama can turn the drums into a spinning, rolling toy! I'm not always sure I know what to do when the toy looks like drums. I just learned how to clap my hands, so I like to do that when the drums play by themselves.

When the toy rolls, that's when I have the most fun. Mama will push it across the floor and then I can chase after it...like the puppies do with their toys.

I wish the drums played more songs. The same "dinga dinga dinga doo" over and over again can get a little boring. I like so many things at once that I need something that can hold my attention just a bit longer! But, the music is loud enough to get me to look (and then crawl) to it many times a day.

Overall, I give this toy 3 out of 5 binkys. I'm not sure when I will learn how to bang a drum, but until then, this toy is pretty fun when Mama plays with it and me at the same time. Thanks, Auntie Jen!

Mirror

Today I am playing with the Sassy Me in the Mirror. Pretty much, I love looking at myself every chance I get. I'm a pretty cute baby after all. I love looking at myself in the mirror at day care, in the mirror in Mama's room, in the mirror in the hallway, and even at my reflection in the fireplace glass doors.

So, when Mama put a mirror in my toy basket that you can take WITH you, let's just say, I got pretty excited.

Mama likes to put the mirror on the fireplace so I can stand AND look at myself. Basically, this mirror is dee-bomb.

I give this sassy mirror 4 out of 5 binkys. The only thing I would change is to make it a little heavier so I can't swat it off the table as easy!

Activity Table

Today I am playing with the Fisher Price Fun with Friends Laugh and Learn Table. Who are these "friends?" No one is getting near this table. All four corners are just for me. It should be called My Table.

I play with My Table every day. It plays music, lights up, sings to me, and even says words in Ing-lesh and Span-esh. When I was 6 months old I played with it while sitting down. My favorite was the laptop. Mama would open it for me (OPEN! ABRIRRRRR!) and then I would use my fist to WHAP the top shut. (CLOSE! CERRARRRRR!) My second favorite was the book (Run, little dog! Jump, little frog!) I loved to open and shut, open and shut, open and shut the page in the book. Let's just say that Mama would have liked a couple more pages for some var-ri-eh-tee. I also liked to fwip, fwip, fwip, fwip the little ball twirly thing with my hands. SO much fun.

A little while ago Mama put the legs on the toy so I could play with it standing up like a big girl. I still love the laptop and book, but now I also play with the keyboard. It has a lot of keys with different colors on them. (RED! RHOJOOO!) Sometimes when I crawl away from My Table, it calls me back by saying "Don't you want to have some fun?" So, then of course, I crawl back to it and DO have some fun.

I give this toy 5 out of 5 BIG binkys! While I can't play with the phone very well yet (my pudgy fingers can't quite push buttons well) I know I will grow up and know how to have fun with it. Either that, or I will skip right to playing with Mama's cell phone!

Binky Holder

Today I am playing with my binky holder. Now, this really isn't a toy, but since my FAVORITE thing of all time is attached to it, I really have to write about it.

Mama got this for me from the Fussy Couture shop on Etsy. [Mama's editorial note: I have always been so pleased with this shop - they ship quickly and their binky holders are high quality!] Aaaanyway, one end goes to my binky. The other end goes to my clothes. This makes sure that when I spit my binky out of my mouth (the 1 or 2 times I might do that) that the binky doesn't go bouncing along the floor, collecting puppy fur or beach sand.

What I like best about this holder is that my binky never falls off. What I don't like about this holder is that it is hard to get off my clothes. Mama says she likes that. But, why make it so hard to

chew on the other end? I love the other end. It's metal, and cold and smooth. Just like the ree-moat controls.

I give this binky holder 4 out of 5 binkys. It keeps my favorite thing of all time safe from the puppies but it's sometimes frustrating to try and pull off.

Wrist Rattle

Today I am playing with Infantino's Wrist Rattles. These rattles have little ani-ma-mal heads stuck on a big ribbon that goes vrrrrrrp when taken off. Mama says this is called vell-crow.

I think mamas are supposed to put these things on the wrists of babies so they can happily rattle the head by waving their hands up and down. I am not that baby. I don't want mama to put this on my wrist. I want her to vrrrrrp it off my wrist so I can chew on it.

I don't know if you know or not, but vell-crow feels REALLY good on the gums. I can chew, chomp, and drool all over the vell-crow and it stays just as fuzzy as the first time I did it.

Overall, I give these rattles 2 out of 5 binkys. For what they SHOULD do, they really are quite lame. But, given the fact that they have vell-crow on them, they are a pretty good toy to chew on. Too bad the head of the pig doesn't say OINK OINK when I chew on it; that would bump the rating up by at least 1 binky.