I am wondering what toys should I buy for our expected baby boy.
As of now, I made a list. It’s quite short as I only wanna only buy the “essentials” (new born babies shouldn’t be overwhelmed with a lot of toys I think). That would be great if you send comments on this list or recommend others you’ve already tried with your babies.
For the toys:
Fisher price playmat
Lamaze Jacques the peacock or Freddie the firefly (which one is better?)
Lamaze foot and wrist finders
ELC (Eraly Learning Centre) Dillon the donkey
For the books:
Lamaze cloth book “Faces” (with black and white patterns)
The very hungry caterpiller by Eric Carle
Dr Seuss’s pocket library (is it too early?)
Another pocket library (with ABC, 123, animals, etc.)
I consider myself a minimalist mum. I only had a couple of cloth books, a rattle and I read Dr Seuss out loud while still pregnant especially the “oh baby the places you´ll go” (I did have the full library though)
The floor mat is handy but so is a brightly coloured pillow and my LO absolutely loved a bright blue knitted rabbit my mother made.
Sing,talk and cuddle a lot AND play classical music . I have found that I bought “stuff” only to find out that my face, my voice and walks outside are far more interesting!
I know this is not part of your book or toylist but I found that the baby carrier is a great investment, forget the buggy for at least a few months.
Stick to yout gut feeling, buy less and spend quality time together
Good luck!
Thanx a lot for your response. I thought I was minimalist… as I am comparing my choices to what parent magazines suggest, but I think I was wrong, you are way more minimalist than me.
Thanks for the baby carrier tip. I was planning to get just a pushchair.
For the toys, I may get just one (most likely Jacques the peacock as it has many features and contrasting colors) and a playmat (we’ll see how it goes)
Ceci-dit, the most important thing, as you mentioned, is quality time we spend together, there is no minimalism in there
a really fun thing you can make for you baby is paper plate faces
all you need is some white paper plates and a big black marker
you draw simple faces onto the middle of the paper plate
try to make the faces as big as you can
i’m not a artist at all but i had a lot of fun making these and both my girls really like them
you can also make them with simple emotions {happy,sad etc}
