Ahhh Nostalgia

Little man actually plays with toys. Yep - he's to the glorious age of singing, playing, eating and laughing. 7 months is a great time! It's so crazy to watch his little facial expressions and almost hear his mind working as he stares at toys as he turns them over in his hands - or as he pounds on the sound buttons of his exersaucer. He grabs at pages of books, shakes rattles and pulls hair. I love everything except the hair pulling - and even that I'm beginning to love because I know it's a phase that will be gone soon enough.

I was starting to look for a few little things for him that I knew were CLASSICS that I had - and that I'd seen with many other families back in the day.

One of these is a shape sorter. Something to jam shaped blocks into the right shaped holes. The one I remember was great - but I figured they were long gone. WRONG! They still make them. Mine was red and blue - but I found a fun green and yellow one! Look! This is a purchase I HAVE to make.

Another - a telephone. Don't all little ones need a fake phone? I guess more realistic for kids now would be cell phones. (This theory in practice - my niece at about age 1 knew how to hold her fake cell phone hands-free between her shoulder and ear just from watching my sister and brother-in-law). I wanted a phone like the one I remember - you could pull it along the floor and the phone had eyes in the front that moved up and down. Yeah - they still make that too!! Okay it's a rotary phone and kids now don't even know what those are - but who cares - it's adorable!

There are so many others that I was thrilled to find are still being made new or are available through the glory of ebay. I love nostalgia!