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MMM: Baby Toys from Around the House

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Hi  ladies! This is our last weekend in the Midwest visiting my folks and introducing Summer Elizabeth to all my friends and family up north. Surely you’ll understand if I write a semi-short post this week, right? I sure hope you all link up and visit one another’s mama musings this week, as I will just as soon as we get home on Wednesday afternoon.

infant toys

You’ve  probably realized that babies especially love playing with household items just as much as any packaged plastic blinking, singing, wonder of a toy.  As a mom, it’s a relief to know that I can just reach for the nearest shelf and generally have an instant entertainment tool for my baby.

Here are my baby’s favorite toys from around the house:

  • Wooden-handled rubber spatulas: Pure joy for my little girl! They’re great for teething, since they’ve got solid and a squishy ends.
  • Clothespins: Clip them to baby’s clothes, blankets, toys, or change it up and insert into a water bottle for a shaker toy.
  • Laundry basket: Sit baby inside and slide her around on the floor. Basketfuls of giggles to ensue.
  • Balls
  • Zippers: Give my baby a pillowcase with a zipper and she’s smitten for 10 minutes.
  • Keys
  • Cereal boxes: place it in front of the baby and watch them explore. Make a discovery box and she’ll smile even wider.
  • Thin plastic water bottles. They love to squeeze the bottles and hear them crunch.
  • Remote controls and cordless telephones. They love pushing those buttons, and they’re even more gratifying if them make noise.

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    Jelli is a blogging veteran and avid baker who’s been selling sweets to feed her chocolate addiction for 8+ years. When the polka dotted apron’s hanging up, she’s a full-time mama to three kidlets enjoying the crazy days of motherhood and pumping out brownie recipes from her sunny Costa Rican kitchen.

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