9 Month Toy Review
I’m just going to quickly run through the toys that she has and uses.
Leapfrog Learn & Groove Musical Table – Huge, huge hit. If we had only one musical/battery toy, this would probably be it. She loves to stand so she’s at this table for much of the day, playing with all the different musical things. I also don’t find it too annoying either, which is nice. We got this used from someone local.
Fisher-Price Learn & Sing Teddy – She got this at Christmas from my Aunt. She really loves the songs and lights! It took her a while to figure out that pressing a paw gets you a song, but now she’ll crawl over to it and play for a while. Be warned, the songs are incredibly catchy! Den and I find ourselves singing them. :)
Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Baby’s First Blocks – It looks so simple, but she really loves these blocks! Yes, the lid is promptly removed and chucked to the side, but the bin and the blocks she spends a lot of time playing with. Now she’s been batting the blocks around, crawling after them as they roll.
Melissa & Doug Deluxe First Bead Maze – I really wanted a bead maze for her, but didn’t want a huge one yet, so her grandma got her this little one. She likes the beads and often just picks it up and shakes it around. As a bonus, it has suction cups on the bottom to stick to her highchair to amuse her. Unfortunately it doesn’t hold her attention very long, though.
Fisher Price Peek-a-blocks Train – My parents got her this because my dad is a train hobbyist. She LOVES it. She doesn’t care about the blocks, just the train… she pushes the button for the song and lights and to play with the moving wheels. She’s now starting to push it around a little. (That Amazon listing is a CRAZY price, though… not sure where they got it, but I am positive it wasn’t half that much!)
Safety 1st Sound ‘n Lights Activity Walker – This was a great big Fail. First, the lowest setting was WAY too high. Den had to cut more notches into the mechanism! Second we bought it too late. She caught on quickly, but just gets uber pissed when she can’t reach things. Her favorite thing to do now is to climb the outside of it…. not exactly safe.
Fisher Price Brilliant Basics Musical Activity Walker – Just bought this yesterday. She’s still figuring it out, but she’s very excited at being able to walk “by herself.” She just at the age where she doesn’t need to lean on things, she just needs some balance support. This is way better than the other walker because she can sit down, crawl away, and come back to it whenever she wants to.
She also loves her touch-and-feel books. Other board books are okay, but she loves the touchy ones!
So tell me…. what are your kids favorite toys? Give me some ideas for her birthday!
Here’s what I had written down for my daughter from 10 months through 18 months:
At 10 months, my daughter still loved Sophie the giraffe for chewing/squeaking, a Vtech Sit to Stand Walker (farm theme), a Little People bus and Little People Musical Zoo Train and board books. The touchy/feely books were her favorites at this age. Also, cords, purses, magazines, a plastic hanger and a dog collar. :o)
By 12 months, she loved her Step 2 WaterWheel Play Table and her baby pool. She also still loved her books–any and all board books. She was really into pushing cars and trucks around on the floor and making vrrrrrooom sounds.
At 13 months (and still now–18 months), she loved anything she could push around the house: doll buggies, shopping carts, ride-on toys, push toys, toy vacuums, toy lawn mowers, cardboard boxes, laundry baskets, plastic storage bins–whatever. She was also into stacks of bowls and cups and pans from our kitchen and big spoons and spatulas to beat on everything with. She also loved her baby dolls.
At 17 months, she loved the remote controls for the TV and anything she could put into a container and then take out of the container. For example, a bucket full of blocks.
And currently at 18 months, she loves her play kitchen and all of its accompanying play food and play dishes, Legos, dolls, doll buggy any cardboard or plastic box or tub or basket she can fill up with stuff and push around the house, her Hasbro Playskool Busy Ball Popper, a ride-on horse, her purse full of goodies (hair brush, mirror, bracelet, keys), shoes/boots/clothing she can put on and take off, and books, books, books.
Hope you find something good in there!
Oh lots good there!! :D I can’t wait until she’s old enough to get the concept of legos. I LOVED legos.
And lol at the cords… yeah, Kate currently loves ropes and cords and ties from sweatshirts.
http://www.amazon.com/First-Touch-Feel-Picture-Cards/dp/0756615186/ref=pd_sim_b_2 This is my standard first birthday gift for all the babies in my moms’s group. At 21 months Matthew still plays with them and has now evolved to telling me the names of everything. We have the animal card set as well.
Anything little people. Anything with wheels. The B. You brand toys at Target. Especially the zany zoo.
Oh and those foam letters you cam stick to the tub
With birthday and Christmas so close together, we got bombarded with new toys in December. We rotate them out for a new variety from time to time, but there are a few that are always out, as they are his favorites, hands down.
Leap Frog’s Scout (they have a “girl” version, too)
Fisher Price Laugh and Learn Farm
Ball Popper
Corn Popper (really, he loves all things he can push along with him, but his corn popper is a definite fav of all of them)
Baby Einstein Alpha Books (he’s become obsessed with these the past couple weeks!)
Books, lots of books – there’s a really good chunky touch n’ feel range out here. She has Duplo Legos that she’ll happily chew on and chuck around, but she hsan’t really figured the whole putting them together bit yet. My parents got her a little Magnadoodle sort of thing, and that’s a bit of a hit. Same for the Aquadoodle, even if all she does is fling water about and grin. Oh, and the ball pit – she didn’t really start loving it loving it until she had enough balance to be able to flop around madly, but now she absolutely adores it.
There’s the other standard stuff, like stacking cups and rings, and the shape ball… she also has a jack in the box, which I am rather surprised and pleased that she enjoys it so. :)
LeapFrog “My Pal Violet” is a huge hit around here. You can personalize it, and it will say your child’s name and sing songs with her favorite food/animal/color etc.
I agree with anything Little People including:
Lil Movers Airplane: http://tinyurl.com/4jajksw
Lil Movers SUV: http://tinyurl.com/4j7t9yv
Fisher Price Baby Grand Piano:
http://tinyurl.com/4tewev8
V-Tech Move & Crawl Ball:
http://tinyurl.com/4lzudvf
Chicco Interactive Talking Farm (this one is bilingual but there is another that is just English):
http://tinyurl.com/4harylk
Chicco Butterfly Spinner:
http://tinyurl.com/46k8e4c
LeapFrog Fridge Magnetic Farm Set:
http://tinyurl.com/4mfdqxk
LeapFrog Magnetic Alphabet Set:
http://tinyurl.com/4lzjxrb
My son will soon be 4! I saved some of these toys for (hopefully) #2 and would buy the others all over again.
When Noelia was a year old,we got her a ball pit tent and she LOVED that! ;)
http://static.letsbuyit.com/filer/images/uk/products/original/184/13/dome-tent-with-100-balls-18413614.jpeg
She´d go inside,throw all the balls out,then get out and throw them back in lol.She also loved to play “peek a boo” from inside it,by holding the flap down (or curtains closed) to “hide” and pull it up to say “boo!”..she used to play in there for really long stretches ;)
It was her own little private space..I totally recomend these tents ;)
My boy has 2 of the Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Baby’s First Blocks. He LOVES them. He likes to see how many of them he can pick up at one time in his little fists.