January 12, 2006

• Toys

  I love toys.  Now that
  my kids are grown I have to have another excuse to have toys
  around.  We do tend to have families with young children visit us
  at frequent intervals so that’s my excuse.  So I keep a big basket
  of Legos at the ready.  They are usually a hit with the
  grade-school crowd.  Also, for the younger set, two tins shaped
  like barns.  These are filled with wonderful plastic (or “resin”
  as the current trend is) farm animals.  Becca has given me these
  marvelous and life-like animals for Christmas for the past couple of
  years.  It’s a great collection and it does keep the little ones
  fascinated for hours.  I love looking at them myself.  Cows,
  horses, a donkey, sheep, a llama, chickens, a rooster, ducks, geese,
  dogs and cats.  What a great toy. 

  Board games are also fun.  We must have played 8 rounds of
  Aggravation recently when 9 year old Chip was here.  He wanted to
  play Monopoly but we only had the German version so he settled for
  Aggravation instead and loved it.  Yesterday I was at the thrift
  store and found a nearly-new Monopoly game (English version of course)
  for $1.  Next time Chip comes, we’re in business! 

  Then there are books.  I must have a hundred or more Little Golden
  Books.  Those are always useful.  Great pictures, few words
  and memorable stories.  My own kids loved them and I even have
  some from when I was a kid. 

  My latest toy project is making a dress-up suitcase.  I was going
  to throw away some old sheer curtain material but in a moment of
  thriftiness/silliness/inspiration decided to turn it into a cape and
  veil for little girls to play dress-up with.  Now I need to dig
  out some more things to fill the suitcase – hats, etc.  Can’t wait
  for someone to come to try them out.

  What were your favorite toys growing up?
  

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