Toddler life: toys in pictures

What does Noah like to play with? Well his number one toy right now has to be his trains. I picked up a pretty extensive Brio set used from Craigslist, and added in a single Thomas item – Thomas himself.  Then his grandmother added in an Ikea train set. So the trains, we’ve got.  And Noah loves them. He sets up track (more or less, not really coherently), crashes them, they have accidents, other trains and the tow trucks come to help, he washes the trains… trains trains trains. He loves Thomas stories too.

Next come these two which I find interesting. He is most happy – even apart from trains – when he is helping Carl or I with something. So I try to have something at every meal that he can help with, and I just move the toddler table over to where I’m working. Here he is “washing” (stirring in water) green beans.

Food is a big hit in any form though and this velcro and wood set that Idaho gave Noah, by Melissa & Doug, is his next favourite toy after trains, for sure – sometimes better, because it’s more like grown-up work.  He uses the knife really well now and has started to cut his own food (with appropriately blunt instruments).

I didn’t take any pics of Little People but he is playing with them differently now – they sit and eat, they go to bed, and a few other little imagination things, as well as just the cool “they fit inside/go down the slide/open doors” thing.  So go Little People, despite my continued dislike for their moulded accessories.  We were at a garage sale where there was a ton of Playmobile stuff and Noah was in heaven there, although they are really too small for him. I did pick up a bunch at bargain basement prices for later though, so I guess we will have Playmobile.

And then he likes to “read” – usually not like this, but I found him curled up like this and could not resist the shot. That is a Francesca Lia Block he’s selected there. And he brought the pillows in himself.

 

And yesterday we tried fingerpainting again – the first time he didn’t like having paint on his fingers. He loved it!