everyone loves new toys

** this post will likely be very boring to anyone who doesn't shop for baby toys. - you've been warned **

Duane and I got Zee's new round of toys, this week. It was so much fun, watching him play with them. It was like a mini preview of christmas. Its a lot of toys, but keep in mind that many of them are very small, and most of his old toys were for newborns, so they really weren't doing it for him anymore.

He has a shape sorter bucket with blocks, a jungle friends tree house, a press & go train, a baby wallet complete with credit cards and keys, a skwish, and a winkel.

The week before last we caught a great sale at gymboree and bought him a bunch of clothes for next year, and 2 stuffed animals. He's now got a nice little zoo of stuffed critters. Most of them were gifts from before he was even born, but the ones that weren't were sale-specials from gymboree. I just can't resist their sales. To date, there's a rhinocerous, 2 giraffes, one large, one small, the gap-bear (it's cuter than you think), a lion, an elephant, a taggy porcupine, a bulldog, a monkey, an organic frog, 2 small turtles, 2 ducks, 4 little fish and an organic string bean.

Funny thing is, I always figured I'd be one of those minimum-toys type of parents. You know, the type who tries to minimize the number of toys, in the attempt to instill creative spirit in your child. I saw myself buying nothing but wooden toys and playing piano concertos for him all day. Turns out I was wrong. Really wrong. In fact, at least 2 of those toys are made by the evil, fisher price. Oh my!

Zee seems to like the baby wallet the best. He just chews and chews on the keys, and the wallet has been gummed and covered in spit, 10 times over, already. The larger 2 toys are the train and the tree house. I happen to like those the best. They remind me of the type of toys that I liked when I was little. I think he's just a tad too young to get them, yet. That's ok. I'll just (play with them) I mean, keep them warm until he's ready.