Top Ten Toys I Detest the Most (but Recommend Buying)

Kai has way way way too many toys.  I swear at night (and by at night I mean when grandma keeps him during consignment sale season) I think the toys breed while I am sleeping.  I am pretty sure there is something freaky going on like this.  There has to be.  Seriously. 

I love any toy that amuses him and keeps his attention for more than two seconds allowing me a few uninterrupted moments to get something done or to sit and actually think.  And he has a few of those.  But this factor isn't enough to keep some of them off my list of utter hatred.  And without further ado, here are my top ten most hated toys.

1)  Puzzles.  He actually really likes his puzzles, but not for the reasons you might think.  Namely putting them together.  He prefers to take them apart and use the pieces for other things.  This puzzle he takes apart and drives the vehicles around while making their sounds.  He fixes things around the house and helps his daddy with this puzzle.  He cooks these puzzle pieces in a mixing bowl.  He loves to stir them and then let us "try" them.  Could we have a future sushi chef on our hands? Needless to say, these puzzles pieces get everywhere and drive me absolutely crazy.  I spend so much time picking them up and then when a piece goes missing, it drives me crazy.

2)  Geometric stacking toy.  It is a great toy to teach counting, shapes, and colors.  But one of the purple rectangles disappeared for months.  And as I mentioned previously, my OCD tendencies really don't like this.  For that reason alone, this toy makes the list. 

3)  So what does any sane person do when a toy annoys them?  They buy the upgraded version of that toy.
I found this toy for 8 bucks at one of the consignment sales I went to and since Kai loved the simple version of it decided to get the more complicated version for him.  He loves it and plays for long periods of time with it, but the pieces get scattered everywhere over the course of his play. 

4)  Animal pop up toy.   Why might you wonder does this one annoy me?  Because it was given to us and the lion on it doesn't always go down.  Which bothers Kai.  Which causes him to come whine to me each and every time because he can get all the other ones down and not that one.  He can't just ask nicely.  He has to whineeeeeee.  This was one of his earliest favorites and I highly recommend it for 6-12 month babies.

5)  His books.  No I don't actually detest them.  But I sure do abhor having to pick them up a thousand times a week.  He can't read one and put it back.  No, like most babies he must take them all off the shelf to read one.  It helps him pick, you know?

6)  Bowling pin set.  For one they kind of remind me of little aliens and if you have been reading a while you guys know how I feel about aliens.  But mostly I hate this toy because Kai does not set them up and bowl with them.  He just throw the pins around and I trip over them and nearly break my neck daily.  I actually do not recommend buying this one.  It just annoys me.


7)    Wooden train block set.   This is probably Destructo's very favorite toy in the history of his young life.  I got it from one of my mom's friends whose son had outgrown it.  I need to get wood glue and put the pins back in since they were loose and he was putting them in his mouth so I took them away.  But he loves to stack all the blocks on the train cars and then when he tires of this, he cooks with the blocks.  Why does it make the list if I am heaping accolades on it?  Because it has about a billion and one little blocks that he scatters everywhere.  Okay I am being dramatic.  But there really is a lot of pieces.

8)  Singing helicopter.  When we were getting ready to go out of town, Kai saw this toy in the store and fell in love with it.  It plays helicopter noises and sings a song.  The song that stays stuck in my head forever.  Swoop and soar, spin and fly, helicopters in the sky...  But what can I say it did amuse him on the car ride.  Now he mostly just uses it as a grenade and it is probably going to disappear soon.



9)  Horse punching bag.  My kid is destructive enough without learning to beat up a poor innocent horse.  This is not a toy I recommend.  LOL 


10)  Stuffed animals.  They just multiply, collect dust, and take up precious room.  Some of them even sing obnoxious songs.  And everyone and their mother like to buy them for Destructo.  I literally have an entire bag of stuffed animals in his closet that I have no clue what to do with.  I mean bonfire, insulation for the house, target practice???  I never recommend these as toys for children.

So there you have it, my most hated (and at times loved) toys.  If you really want to torture yourself with any of these toys, they are clicky links that you can find more info about them with.  But don't say I didn't warn you.

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