Puppy

Today I am playing with my singing puppy, also known as the Laugh and Learn Puppy. I have to let you in on a little secret. I have not liked this puppy for a very long time. He has been with me for many months now, but I often stepped over him in search of better toys.

But today? We got along very well in my new tent. The puppy sings songs! I like to clap my hands when he starts to sing. Sometimes his little heart lights up and turns off and lights up and turns off. I wish more of him would light up. Sometimes he also starts singing one song and then when I touch him he starts singing another song. He is a very sensitive little puppy.

Overall, I give singing puppy 3 out of 5 binkys. I like the songs he sings (Pat A Cake, Happy Clap Clap, Piggy to Market, and HeadShoulderKneesAndToes) and I like his voice. Mama sometimes turns him off when he makes too much noise. I don't think she likes it when he talks to me when I don't try and talk to him. He is a very nosey little puppy.

Baby Says Book

Today I am playing with the book, What Does Baby Say?

This book has a lot of babies in it. They are eating and drinking and playing with doggies (get!) It also has little pages that you can flap open and SEE what the baby is doing. Pretty cool. I like to flip open the pages myself, but sometimes Mama helps.

I like it when big people read the book to me. I like to bring the book over to them, put it on their legs, and then cry and pat their arms until they pick me up and read it with me in their lap.

Again.

And again.

I give this book 5+ out of 5 binkys. (It gets a bonus half binky when I get to read it with Gram-pa Tom).

Tylenol

Today I am playing with baby medicine. Mama calls it Ty-Len-All. I call it my very special, teeny tiny bottle WITH a rubber top shaped like my bottle top.

I like to chomp on the rubber part and make it go squeak-a squeak-a on my gums. The little bottle is perfect for me to hold and transfer from hand to hand. Sometimes I even try and tip the goo out that lives inside. It never comes out. Bad goo.

Sometimes I don't feel very good and Mama takes my Ty-Len-All bottle and opens it up! I have no idea how she does that. She is like magic. But then she makes me eat whatever is inside, and I don't like that.

I give the Ty-Len-All bottle 4 out of 5 binkys. The rubber top is dee-lite-full on my gums (and my half-tooth!) and the little bottle fits in my hands perfectly. Now if the goo inside could just taste good...

Puzzle

Today I am playing with Melissa and Doug's Barnyard Animals Puzzle. This puzzle is really meant for babies older than me. That makes me a pretty big girl.

Each ani-ma-mal piece has a big knob in the middle of it. I like to grab a knob, one in each hand, and then CLAP CLAP them together. Sometimes I like to chew on the knobs as well. Mama likes to put the ani-ma-mals back in their homes. She makes a big deal of trying to cram the knob-sheep where the knob-horsey lives and saying "oh, that doesn't work." Maybe when I get to be a big 1 year old girl next month, I will like to try and put the ani-ma-mals back in their places, but for now, it just doesn't make any sense.

I give this puzzle 2 out of 5 binkys. The wood makes a nice loud CLAP sound, the knobs are nice and big for my small hands to grab, but right now, the whole "puzzle" thing doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I may need to review this one again in a few months when I start to, as Mama says, match ani-ma-mals together. This sounds exciting. Wish me luck!

Music Machine

Today I am playing with the music machine...also known as the "No-Lyla-Don't-Touch CD Player." My mama plays my night night music from the music machine so I can fall asleep. It has a lot of buttons. I like to crawl to it, carefully inspect all of the buttons, and then verrrrry carefully poke one of them. Most of the time I lose interest pretty quickly, and then I try and stand up and bonk my head on the table above.

I do that a lot.

I give the music machine 3 out of 5 binkys. It doesn't do much, but I DO play with it every night. Sometimes I can even get the top of it to FLY open and then I try to grab the shiny circle thing on top. That's when Mama usually shakes her head at me and tries to give me the Vicks Vay-Po Rub to play with. That is fine by me. :)

Coffee Cup

Today I am playing with Mama's Coffee Cup. Each morning before school Mama wakes me up, sings me songs, changes my diaper, dresses me (which I hate), feeds me my bottle, and then takes me down to the big table where I sit in my special chair and eat amazing round things while Mama eats yo-gurt with crunchy things.

And THEN....

Mama fills her coffee cup, grabs me from the big chair, shoves me in my jacket (which I hate) and we go into the big car. Wait, what am I talking about? Oh, right - Mama's coffee cup.

I just learned how to hold my own bottle...so naturally I want to hold other things up and try to drink from them. Mama doesn't let me try and drink from her coffee cup. Hmm. Not sure why. She runs at me really fast saying "eeee" and then grabs the cup from me.

I give Mama's Coffee Cup 2 out of 5 binkys. Seeing as how Mama doesn't let me drink from it much, it's not that much fun, but I DO have a good time trying to grab it back. :)

So Big

Today I am playing with my So Big! Elmo book. It is not really MY book as Mama said her friend Kelly loaned it to me. Really? What is this loaning all about? This book is the best book I've ever read. Won't I want to read it FOREVER?

What was I saying?

Oh, yes. Elmo. He is SO big. Actually, Elmo can do so many things in this book that I can't do yet. He is sort of my hero. I learned how to clasp my hands together and throw them over my head into a cheerio position a couple of months ago. Mama then says SO BIG! Just like Elmo. At the end of the book, it asks, how big is baby Elmo? THEN. You flip the page over and a HUUUUUGE Elmo pops out of the book. It's amazing. Elmo is really SO big!

I give this book 5 out of 5 binkys. The pictures are bold, colorful, simple, and happy, happy, happy. Elmo is doing something fun, yet quite advanced, in each of the pictures and Mama has a fun time reading me the story. Again. And again. Mama is also SO big.