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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forumssuggestions please! I want to get a retro toy for my 10 month old grandson for xmas...
and his first birthday will be January 21 (he was an Obama Inaugural Day/MLK, Jr. Day baby!)
He only has one retro toy: the old fisher price phone.
The corn popper comes to mind but he isn't walking yet.
He has the cups that fit in graduated sizes.
He also needs another bedtime book as he only has one.
Please give me your ideas!
(Did I tell you he's adorable?)
CC
(8,039 posts)birthday the corn popper is a great idea. He might not be walking now but he will be any day and will love it.
These are a hit with both boys and girls.
I had given one to the next door neighbors son for xmas one year. He loved it so much he slept with it for over a year. That boy loved to hammer.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)He's having fun rolling things on the floor and dropping things over the side of his playpen...
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)In revenge my dad bought one of my cousins a cap gun with a supply of 1,000 caps. My uncle called shortly after to declare a truce.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)You know, the ball with holes in it for differently shaped pieces.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I had them for my granddaughters, expecting that they would visit more often. They didn't so they are still there, sadly unused...
grasswire
(50,130 posts)I have some of those too.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)I just got some at Barnes and Noble (the only bookstore we have here They have soft books and vinyl books you can get wet. My granddaughter liked the ones with the little finger puppet built in. There was an entire section of them! Have fun, it's hard to decide.
How about one of those stacking ring toys?
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)which is the old Yale Co-Op from days of yore...(there was also one called the Harvard Coop up in Cambridge). I even found kid books in Italian for my other (bi-lingual) grandson!
As you can imagine this store is super preppy baby!
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)They also have educational baby toys. Our B & N didn't have much of a toy selection, so I am off to (ugh) Toys R Us tomorrow.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I'll bet you can find something very similar. Snobs, you know...LOL...
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I can't believe they're now considered "retro"!!!
Geez, what has happened to us...we must be idiots...
No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)No colors or letters on them.
The Vermont Country Store (catalogue) has a nice selection of Fisher-Price toys, though pricey, but, if it's what you want and no one else has them, sometimes you have to pay the long price. Of course, there's always Ebay and thrift shops.
They showed about 8 or 10 Fisher-Price toys, including the milk bottles and the Clock, likely also the xylophone.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)wonderful! I'll try it...
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)who are learning to walk:
http://www.brio.net/ToPlay/Toddler/Pull-alongs/30367_AntwithEgg.aspx
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)Texasgal
(17,046 posts)Very retro and safe! Plus, they are just cool.