This is a really cool toy! It's fun from very very early because even little babies can kick it and get it to produce some music. For a long time we kept it in the car and Kenneth played with it whenever we traveled. It's a neat way to introduce your child to the sounds different instruments make as well as to Mozart. I really like to play with it too!

Sadly, I can't recommend this toy. It's a terrific concept, but it's poorly designed in that the cartridge mechanism seems to be very fragile, and yet is in plain site where a curious toddler can and will grab it. The toy just didn't last long enough to be worth the money we spent on it. Otherwise, it's a lot of fun.

This is such a neat set of baby Legos. Kenneth was able to stack these and play with the train pieces from a very young age. I found it very hard to find toys to purchase for him when he was around a year old. It seemed that everything was either too simple or had parts that were too small, but this really avoided both of those issues. He still plays with it. He likes the people that come with it. Of course, it's a hit because it has wheels as well.

I knew I had to get one of these for Kenneth. It's just a classic toy. I believe Tupperware's tag line is, "No one should grow up without one." He learned to recognize trapezoids right along with all the other shapes as a result of playing with this toy and me talking to him about this toy. We sometimes use it to sort shapes, we sometimes use it to stack the shapes, and we sometimes use it just to roll across the floor, so it's versatile too. This is a great simple, old fashioned toy.

This was the first shape sorter I got for Kenneth. I liked it because it was very forgiving. The shapes would sort of fall into their respective holes as long as he had the correct hole. In other words, he didn't have to have them oriented properly, they'd turn themselves around and fall in. It's always nice to find toys that reward a child's most primitive attempts because you know that feedback encourages them to come back for more. The other end is a soft "garbage disposal" style opening that kids can reach right into, and he loved just putting stuff in it and taking it out. This toy got many many hours of use. We'd had it for months when a friend pointed out that the shape lid also comes off - adding yet another dimension to our play.

Here's another toy that's at least as much fun for me as it is for Kenneth. We played with these at some friend's of ours and I was instantly intrigued. The number of ways the toys can be stacked amazed me. I came home from that vacation on a search for them. I'm glad I found them. So far, truthfully, Kenneth has not shown a huge amount of interest in them, however, I suspect they will be something he grows into. I just think they are really engaging, and they certainly win a vote for uniqueness.

These were not cheap, but they were easily worth the money. Kenneth used them to prop up on as he learned to sit up, to climb on as he learned to crawl, to pull up on as he learned to stand, and to step up and down from as he mastered that skill. The hole was a perfect hiding place for little toys, and kept small balls from rolling away. The ramp became a great place to roll his cars down. We finally put it away when we replaced his crib with a twin bed, but they will be back out again for the next child, no question.

A friend of mine recommended a kazoo for Kenneth based on her experiences with her own child loving it. It was a great suggestion. He played with it right out of the box, and was so proud of himself for being able to produce a sound with it. He loves to laugh through it, he gets tickled at the sound and then laughs even harder and the cycle continues. If you think of toys strictly on a dollar per hour basis this one is a great deal!

Kenneth was able to stack all four of these "totem pole guys" almost as soon as he could sit up. Since they are magnetic you can be a bit clumsy and imprecise and still have success. Another toy that encourages a child to keep going by giving them feedback right from their first awkward attempts. I'm sure it strengthened his fine motor skills, and he really seemed to be having fun with it. Also, it enabled us to start working on concepts regarding quantity because we'd count them as he added them to the stack and he eventually started understanding when he was done. Another big bang for the buck since this toy is not expensive.