Thanks everybody for all the excellent suggestions! I'm totally psyched. I have a working list. Such a relief just to have that much done. I think we're going to skip the train table, at least for this year, and focus instead on just the train stuff. That's enough to break the bank right there. I agree that less is definitely more when it comes to toys but I'm really looking forward to getting some new activities around here. Plus we need to get toys for Grandma & Grandpa's as well as here. That's a good justification for my too-long list. I'd like to get a play kitchen set, some more instruments, some more blocks and some of these things...
All this talk of Oscar and his play habits had me wondering... Oscar's Kanga has been promoted from lovey security object to closest pal and companion. He takes her everywhere, points cars to her out the window, feeds her breakfast, reads her books and there's a lot of "Kanga do it" "Thank you Kanga" when it's clean up time. So I was thinking maybe the indifference to dolls had changed. I asked him do you want a doll to play trains with and he answered enthusiastically Yes! So I ran into the craftroom and grabbed the kitty doll Rosa sent us. I had to come up with a name quick so she's "Rosa". Ingenius. She started pushing engines with Oscar right away and now it's Kanga-Rosa everything. She even had to come to the Target with us. Where, uh, we might have bought yet another Hot Wheels car. Well at least he's balanced.
