Well, my little daughter (who really phrased this question as a mmmmmbaaaaa, ’cause she’s only 1 and can’t speak yet), normally, toys do not grow on trees. They grow in shops called Mothercare and ELC and on the internet in virtual shopping malls. Then they get delivered to us in dehydrated form and we add water by drooling over their magnificence for a while and hey presto, new toys.
Except today, because today, your mother, bless her, brought home from your walk several pine cones. Now you wouldn’t think pine cones would be a good tot toy would you? I mean, there isn’t much to recommend them. At least not according to the baby Einstein promo DVD we watched. After all, pine cones are not brightly coloured. Nor do they make much of a sound when shaken. And they certainly do not pop into your DVD player and mesmerise your little darling for hours on end while you get on with parent stuff. On the other hand, pine cones are brown, by and large, and have strange stick out parts to them.And let me tell you, the amount of fun we had picking them up off the playmat and placing them on the bench in the garden and then climbing up onto the bench (with a boost from dad) and then placing them on the table in a very tot-determined way and then finally throwing them onto the ground and starting the cycle all over again is absolutely astounding. Who would have thought something so cheap…..something so free in fact, would entertain my little thing for so long.
But she had loads of fun. Even when dad rather meanly interrupted our game by half-inching a few pine cones just as we stacked them ever so carefully on the bench. Well there was nothing for it but to point at them in dad’s hand…..and demand them back. Whereupon they were restored to their rightful place on the bench before we asked for a little boost up (”mmmmmbbbbbbaaaaa?”) so we could continue the little happy triumvirate of pine cone destinations. Heck we played all the way till lunch, after which we were preeeeeety tired and needed an afternoon nap. Luckily, since pine cones happily sit in the garden at various heights while looking rather like garden decorations debonairly scattered, there was no toy clean up while she slept and dad got a nap as well 🙂
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