Some Toys

As we get ready for Gwen's birthday followed by Trevor's and then Christmas, I figure I should let you know about some of the things the kids are playing with. They might go by the wayside with new stuff coming in. Or at least I hope to weed out or recycle and hide some of the old toys to make way for the new stuff.

Trevor still plays with Cars cars. We have been slowly introducing him to board games and I have a few in mind to get him for his birthday or Christmas. He knows how to play Uno, Chutes and Ladders, Memory, Hi Ho Cherry O, and Sequence for Kids. I have been involved in a free game site that just started offering Monopoly. Trevor noticed that we had games like that, but wasn't interested in playing by the rules (I think the actual age is like 10 and up) but liked the fact that he could make similar sound effects like dice rolling and going to jail on a game board that he liked. The one he wanted to play on was our Mario/Nintendo game board.

Over this summer, I found a fisher price dollhouse at a garage sale for $1. It was in very good shape but did not come with any furniture or dolls. A few weeks later, my mom found some furniture at a store in Chicago. A few weeks ago, Trevor had still been playing with the house using it as Lightning McQueen's house. But on Wednesday, the family of dolls was found. We now have grandparents, parents, a brother and sister, and boy and girl twin babies. So now Trevor can play with Bubba, Papa, Mommy, Daddy, Trevor, Elizabeth, Gwen, and Sam. (Yes, I tried to convince him Sam was not a baby, but he wanted the baby boy to be Sam). And he loves it. Unfortunately, Gwen does too. And even more unfortunate, she isn't at the age where she can play with the big house yet. If we put it on the floor for her, it would easily be broken within a week. So instead, we let her sit on someone's lap and play or she even likes to carry around a select doll and then drop it off to be lost for a few hours. (That's what happened with the mommy doll today).

As far as toys Gwen likes...it's pretty much any of Trevor's toys that he plays with. Add to that, the Word Whammer refrigerator toy that has like 30 letters scattered on the fridge which come off and get picked up 30 times a day....and then she also has a few books that she likes to read. She now gets around by walking everywhere. And jabbering. She's trying to copy things she hears, but she has a good time walking around talking to herself. Or to you if you want to listen to her. I'll have to get a video of her, if I can remember!