Toys are overrated

Yes, it's true, baby toys are overrated. Of course they are great for colors and shapes but frankly all you need to keep a 10 month old happy is a wooden spoon, pillow, remote control, box, a sock, pots and pans and a book. New parents only get suckered into buying there first child toys because they don't know any better. Up until about 8 months old the baby toys are great, then after that you might as well put them away. They don't want the toys, they want everything they are NOT supposed to have, i.e. remote control, magazines, really anything you have in the house that is not a toy.

Thankfully Brad and I didn't get suckered, too much, into buying many toys. Thanks to Chase's cousins before him, he got alot of hand-me-down toys, which is awesome. But I won't lie, when we go to the store Chase will get a new toy, not all the time, but we've got to spoil him now and again. He loves bath toys and we spoil him with those.

But don't worry, I will not deprive my child of the wonderful colors, shapes, and sounds of toys, only limit them. However, he loves to play with balls so much that we do totally spoil him when we see a ball, such as last night. We were at Target shopping for necessities and birthday gifts and that's when we saw them, a whole bin of big, bouncy balls. For $2.49 how could we not buy Chase this huge, big blue ball? In the cart it went. Chase played with this huge ball the whole way home, kicking and throwing it. Did I mention that it is the same size as him?