At 01:32 AM 8/30/01, you wrote:
>Julia Thompson schreef:
>
> > Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
> > >
> > > *It's Tom's favourite toy at the moment. I never would have thought
> > > he'd be able to play with it already. But he does as soon as he is
> > > awake and before he fals asleep and it keeps him fairly occupied.
> >
> > May I ask what this toy is? :)
>
>It's a red semi elastic cord with big brightly collored (green and blue)
>wooden beads and two wooden rings (strung on their side) that turn on the
>cord around two enticing red wooden harts. Also there is a big yellow
>wooden bell in the middle. You clip the cord onto the cod or the pram
>with big red button clips. Especially the bell and the ring have a magic
>effect on Tom. He always wants to grab the slippery rings, but they then
>turn around the harts and he has to start all over again. From pure
>frustration he then starts hitting the bell. It's sooooooo cute. After a
>while he simply falls asleep.
>
>We got the cord from a friend of my moms who is a granny herself. We
>thought Tom a little young (at the time he was around 9 weeks) for such
>toys so we hadn't looked. But the cord looked very cute with the red,
>green, yellow and blue and different shapes. So we thought that at least
>it would provide Tom with something to look at when he is in his pram.
>Boy were we wrong. The thing had been on his pram for about a minute, we
>thought nothing of it and went for a cop of coffee. Suddenly the bell
>started and Tom was in full action with the cord. Since then it's been
>within his reach whenever possible. Besides when I put him down into his
>pram and forget to put it acros he loudly lets me know I forgot. :o)
>
>I also have had a similar toy with a bear and jingling balls. I used to
>put it up because it looks nice but Tom never touched it. Probably the
>colors (beige and cream) aren't good, it's from Tiamo. Looks cute but it
>doesn't do the trick.
>
>Another one of Tom's toys is a big hard plastic ballshape thing. Also red
>green blue and yellow. It has a smaller jingling ball within. (It was
>labeled at 6 months plus). But when I put Tom down in his rocking chair
>and I put the ball between his feet or on his legs, he tries to kick it
>off. His pleasure is great when after a while he succeeds because then I
>have to go get it back for him. So not a game you want to play when you
>need a bit of rest.
>
>Sonja
I wonder if there's something profound about the fact that the toys
described above sound almost identical to some of the cat toys that are
lying around here . . . except that the cats get bored with them a lot quicker.
--Ronn! :)
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