365 Toyz

#111: pantry invasion

2010-10-31T15:25:00.003-06:00

Sometimes you open the pantry to this greeting.

Oh ... hi guys. I see you brought Froggo.

Just a wee bit creepy.

*note*
Rummaging in the pantry is a favorite pastime of the little one these days. She's 2 now ... and loves to leave toys everywhere. :)

#110: froggo

2010-10-30T15:18:00.000-06:00

Have I not shown you froggo yet? He makes a cameo appearance in the next post, so I'd better introduce him.

Use your imagination here, m'kay?We were bored one day in July, so I had my girl pick out a rock from the yard to paint. She was especially proud of the color of green that she mixed. :)
I added some googlie eyes where she wanted them, and ta-da ...
Froggo.

#109: no pups were hurt in the making of this post

2010-10-29T15:13:00.000-06:00

The collar might look a little snug, but I think he's okay. :)
(Love the hanger.)

#108: scrappy whale

2010-10-28T23:29:00.000-06:00

My 4-year-old cut some scraps of paper and randomly glued them together.

"Hey mom, it looks like a whale!"

So she added a little crayon and showed it to me.
Cutest paper whale ever. :)

#107: puppy collars

2010-10-24T23:26:00.000-06:00

#106: giraffe photographer

2010-10-20T23:23:00.000-06:00

#105: Pepsi dino

2010-10-18T23:14:00.000-06:00

I saw this. I had to figure out what I was seeing here with mr. floating dino.So it turns out that mr. dino was hanging there by the back of his head. (His crest, if you will.) It struck me as funny. :)

And to top it off, I saw that she (my oldest) had taped together the "tear" in the top of the box. (a.k.a. the slit to carry the box with.)

#104: nighty night owl

2010-10-16T23:11:00.001-06:00

#103: spatula ... antenna? windsock? ???

2010-10-15T23:07:00.001-06:00

#102: ghost dolls

2010-06-12T23:35:00.002-06:00

#101: crazy zebra drivers

2010-06-10T23:33:00.000-06:00

#100: resting Minnie

2010-06-09T23:20:00.000-06:00

This is a fun post for #100, since this toy is a brand new gift. Aunt J gave this to my oldest as a souvineer from our recent Disneyland trip.She has to put Minnie in her PJs before bed each night. This is where I found Minnie sleeping.Can you see the things on the right side? The day clothes by the dresser, and the mirror, brush and cell phone on top??Oops, the phone fell on the ground ... but still! :)

Funny girl.

#99: shoe sleeping

2010-06-02T23:18:00.000-06:00

Nighty night, Pluto & Figaro.

#98: Elliot eats

2010-06-01T23:16:00.000-06:00

After Elliot had a great nap, I guess he was hungry. This is where we found him one afternoon.

#97: Shhh, Elliot is sleeping

2010-05-31T23:14:00.002-06:00

I was shooshed many times by my 4-year-old because Elliot was sleeping in the next room at Aunt J's house.

#96: bed bug

2010-05-29T21:45:00.001-06:00

#95: horses

2010-05-16T19:11:00.003-06:00

This one needs some explaining.

My girl was riding around this juggling pin (?) as a hobby horse. She put it in a corner of our living room, blocked the "barn" with a "door" (couch pillow) and put some toy carrots in there for it to munch on.

Then she found the horses mama to join it in there. Just 2 horses, sitting in a barn, munching on carrots. Nothing strange there.

#94: dressy pteranodon

2010-05-14T18:59:00.003-06:00

Oh boy, is this even a pteranodon? It looks like our friends on Dinosaur Train, right? :) And when did we stop calling it a pterodactyl? (hee hee, even my spell check is trying to fix it to say "pteranodon.") Maybe those are 2 different things ... oh boy, I'd better brush up on my dino knowledge. :)

ANYWAY, my oldest thought this little necklace from her Littlest Pet Shop collection would look great on her pteranodon. A perfect fit! How clever ... and fancy!

Note: My girl just saw this after I posted it, and she said, "hey, did you take a picture of my pterodactyl." I said, "it's not a pteranodon?"
"It's a pterodactyl."
"What's the difference?"
"It's a pteranodon and a pterodactyl."
Alrighty, cleared that up. ;)

#93: 'raffe twins

2010-04-25T23:39:00.002-06:00

#92: PINK

2010-04-24T23:42:00.000-06:00

Since the crayon doodles of this table have been discussed often, I can't help but show the "table renovation." Oh dear. :)

Before

Aaaaaannnnddd
(brace yourself)

AfterMy girl is happy. :)

#91: plotting ponies

2010-04-23T14:39:00.000-06:00

#90: yet another odd trio ...

2010-04-22T23:38:00.000-06:00

#89: precarious li'l tower

2010-04-20T23:32:00.000-06:00

#88: group nap

2010-03-19T15:55:00.001-06:00

Let's see, Minnie, bear, Mickey, little Minnie, and Woodstock. ???

#87: laundry huddle

2010-03-10T15:53:00.000-07:00

#86: mini box

2010-02-28T20:44:00.000-07:00

I got a new die for my Sizzix machine (for work ... and play), and I used some scrap paper to test it out. I folded up this quick little mini milk carton (cute, no?) and my oldest asked to keep it. I said sure, she was ecstatic, and she added her own little "embellishment" to the top from her hair cupboard.

#85: animals of the world

2010-02-27T20:34:00.000-07:00

#84: Bashful

2010-02-22T14:35:00.002-07:00

Wow, he is bashful!

#83: love notes

2010-02-14T13:28:00.003-07:00

I love finding love notes from my oldest. She will leave these on my nightstand often. Cute girl.

#82: phew

2010-02-14T13:25:00.002-07:00

I don't know what my 18-month-old had planned here ...
... but whatever it was, I am glad she couldn't get the lid off my make-up.

That ottoman may have never been the same.

#81: photo shoot

2010-02-05T13:23:00.001-07:00

I love this. She had this scene set up, and by the time I got back with my camera, she was already taking a picture with hers. Bonus. :)
(She was telling them all to say "cheese.")

#80: more shoe creatures

2010-01-25T22:48:00.002-07:00

The shoe phase continues. Princess Dora in daddy's shoe this time.
Of course.

P.S. I will be painting this table soon, now that the oldest is mostly out of the coloring-on-things phase. Let's see how long it stays crayon-free before the baby discovers it. ;)

#79: missing piece

2010-01-06T08:40:00.001-07:00

Missing a puzzle piece? No matter, just improvise.

#78: Orca in my shoe!

2009-12-23T23:18:00.003-07:00

We've gotten to the point that now I don't know which of my children did this. The baby is now 16 months old, so she more than contributes to the mischief and creativity. :)

#77: Sizzix piggies

2009-12-21T22:08:00.001-07:00

My girl and I were cutting out some more magnetic dress-up bears with my Build-a-Bear dies, and I left the mess to go upstairs for a few minutes. This is what I found later.

Where did those pigs come from?

#76: decorating the tree

2009-12-08T15:17:00.002-07:00

I am finding our Christmas ornaments (the low-branch non-breakables) all over the house, and other everyday objects on the tree. Both girls are very helpful with this system. :)

#75: napping brush

2009-11-17T16:55:00.000-07:00

Shhhhh, you don't want to wake the sleeping toy hairbrush ... that is napping on the fake camera ... on the very "broken in" kids table ... with a washcloth blanket. Shhh.

#74: smiley shapes

2009-11-16T16:51:00.000-07:00

You are going to think my children spend the whole day in jammies with all these posts. :)

So I was cutting out some shapes for some work stuff, and I gave the scraps to my girl to play with at her own little desk. This is what I found her doing with them.Can you see all the happy little faces? Love it. :)

#73: Astroboy conducts

2009-11-14T16:48:00.000-07:00

She told me he was conducting. :)

(Like my laptop vinyl? Tee hee. It's this.)

#72: the little one

2009-11-12T16:44:00.000-07:00

I knew the baby would start joining in on the fun before too long. :) You have seen these little chairs before, but now there is another child lining them up and carrying them around.

#71: rafts

2009-11-11T16:39:00.001-07:00

Aw, poor neglected little blog! :) Here we go.The little lady explained that all the toys had a raft.
Phew.

#70: Nighty night otter

2009-10-21T16:23:00.002-06:00

#69: pencil protectors

2009-10-01T09:16:00.000-06:00

#68: placemap

2009-09-30T22:16:00.002-06:00

My girl always called her placemats "place maps."
This is the one occasion that I realized I can't correct her. :)

#67: Lined Up

2009-09-20T22:20:00.000-06:00

#66: Mama Mirabelle

2009-09-16T22:10:00.000-06:00

The little lady loves this new show that we discovered, Mama Mirabelle.She knows the character's names (Mama, Max, Bo & Carla.) She also adores playing with these little animal toys. So I should have guessed what she was doing one night when she scampered off as her show started. She came back with this.Horrible picture, but can you tell what they are?
They all watched the show together.
She makes me smile. :)

#65: Piles

2009-09-15T22:09:00.000-06:00

She loves to make piles, pairs, groupings, ... you get the idea. :)

#64: Polar bears

2009-09-07T12:01:00.000-06:00

The li'l lady is in a phase of grouping all like objects (as you may have noticed) and pretending they are a family.

#63: Bink's kids

2009-09-06T23:55:00.000-06:00

My girl has dubbed these bears all "Bink's kids."
(Bink, if you remember, is the one on the right.)

#62: Build-a-Bear!

2009-08-20T23:39:00.001-06:00

Cute, eh?? I made these for my girl using my Sizzix Big Shot. I just stuck some cute paper on adhesive magnet sheets, ran them through the machine with my new Build-a-Bear dies (available to buy starting September 1st - check here), and ta da! She loves them!!
(We also have a little magnet board for quiet play at church.)

#61: Doras

2009-08-18T23:37:00.000-06:00

#60: legos

2009-08-17T23:34:00.000-06:00

Nothing too crazy going on here. It's just fun to watch her play with something that doesn't make sounds, doesn't talk, has no fancy electronic parts ... just utilizes full imagination.

#59: Teddy Bear picnic

2009-08-15T23:16:00.002-06:00

#58: paper flowers

2009-08-14T22:32:00.002-06:00

I made my girl some paper flowers (using my Big Shot Sizzix machine and Daisies and Build a Flower dies), and she had an idea to add some pipe cleaners. I had to help her flatten them a bit, but otherwise this was her creative project.

#57: iPod math

2009-08-10T22:15:00.003-06:00

My girl navigates my iPod like a pro. She's 3. Technology starts young these days.

She has a page of "her games," and this math game is one of them. She got into it by herself, starting playing, and when I peeked over, this is where she was at.

I know, it's blurry ... but can you read that at all?Her score ... 26 correct, 0 wrong. She's 3!! 2 years until Kindergarten ... watch out world. ;) Tee hee.

#56: little hands

2009-08-09T22:10:00.000-06:00

I love watching little hands. And little hands coloring? Precious.

#55: ob-ka-gull course

2009-07-27T22:28:00.001-06:00

Not really sure what this is, but I think she called it an obstacle course and kept trying to jump over the length of it.

#54: colors

2009-07-22T09:16:00.000-06:00

She needed them organized by color ... ... where does she learn these neurotic behaviors? :)

{innocent whistling}

#53: rock on

2009-07-21T15:25:00.003-06:00

A glove she randomly left on the ground. Not sure if that was on purpose or not, since she does know what that means.

#52: C-A-T

2009-07-19T10:08:00.000-06:00

"Mom, mom, look what I wrote! It says cat!"[insert proud mama here;)]

#51: you may THINK it's a tea set ...

2009-07-18T22:02:00.004-06:00

... when in reality, it's a cozy place to take a nap. At least it was on this particular day.
(um, and watch out for those knives, little dolly.)

#50: Bink's highchair

2009-07-13T09:16:00.000-06:00

We had a little tea party (with popcorn - what else?) and I didn't realize until later that this is how Bink the bear had been sitting. She told me it was his highchair, since he was too short before.

#49: buttons & quirks

2009-07-12T11:44:00.001-06:00

My girl is quirky. On this day, she helped me sort out some buttons for my business. She was so flustered about getting the colors and types separated.

She's cute. Here she is picking out all the small orange ones. She may be so particular because of me ... since I was the kid that itemized my Halloween candy. I'm just sayin'. :)

#48: Cinnamon Roll Squirrel

2009-07-11T11:32:00.000-06:00

"Hey mom, it looks like a cinnamon roll!"

#47: Butter in the Road

2009-07-10T11:28:00.002-06:00

#46: Bear Socks

2009-07-09T15:29:00.002-06:00

I had to sneak away the bear and take a quick picture in the dark.

#45: mammoth family nap

2009-07-02T17:46:00.001-06:00

#44: cookie day

2009-06-22T22:32:00.003-06:00

Today was a cookie making day. Here she is using a "mixer."They each had their own.

#43: papa's shoes

2009-06-18T08:42:00.000-06:00

#42: Etch-a-Sketch diner

2009-06-17T08:27:00.000-06:00

And psssst, behind you!

#41: tower ...

2009-06-11T23:00:00.001-06:00

... with book ... and mouse ... while wearing apron? Wait, what?

#40: monkey sleeping bag

2009-06-10T22:54:00.002-06:00

ETA: I orginally called this a "tent," but was corrected ... she insisted it was a sleeping bag. Silly mommy.

#39: rainbow

2009-06-09T23:19:00.004-06:00

We were looking at this out the windowwhile she worked on a puzzle. Then the puzzle became this instead.(She wanted to be in the shot. As usual.:)

#38: Play-Doh snails

2009-06-08T17:00:00.002-06:00

What, you can't tell they're snails? :) Well, they are. She told me so. ;)

#37: learning to draw

2009-06-06T09:16:00.000-06:00

This fun book from Usborne books (I'm like a walking advertisement, huh?) shows a few basic steps to drawing animals. She got it for Christmas, and we finally pulled it out today.
She got stuck on the frog page and wanted to practice over and over. This was her 1st try all by herself.Cute!

#36: cup math

2009-06-05T22:06:00.002-06:00

Love these cups from Discovery Toys. My girl played with them as a baby, gnawing and toppling over towers (like her baby sister does now), and now she is using them to learn. Today's lesson? Basic math. i.e., the 3 cup plus the 2 cup fills the 5 cup. Fun, eh? :)

#35: Bink

2009-06-03T14:21:00.003-06:00

This is Bink.

He is a Build-A-Bear that our girl got to choose as her replacement comfort back when she stopped using the binki. (Hence the name, of course.)

A couple days ago I was in my daughter's room, and I heard her excited voice exclaim, "a clue! a clue! I see a clue!" NO idea what she was talking about, until she showed me this.That's the little tag on his side. I'd never realized that it resembles the Blue's Clues paw print. :)

#34: lift

2009-06-02T09:50:00.002-06:00

#33: book tents

2009-05-29T08:00:00.000-06:00

Please don't disturb the napping animals.

#32: straw chopsticks ... strawpsticks?

2009-05-28T22:39:00.003-06:00

This was a fun scene to watch. She finished off a Capri Sun, took out the straw, bent it in half, and called it her "chopsticks" while she finished lunch.Sorry, that's not terribly appetizing looking. :) Her "cheesy roll-up."

Creative and resourceful, no? :)

#31: voltayno

2009-05-27T09:45:00.004-06:00

My girl has a set of alphabet books, and she is really loving the letter V right now. She is fascinated with the picture of a volcano. (Then the mess is cleaned up with the vacuum, a guy plays the violin, and then get a Valentine's heart. She'll tell you the whole story.)

She came out of her room today with her hippo and 2 sleeping bags. "Mom, this is a voltayno." (That one took me a minute to decipher.) "It's going to blow, so keep these [sleeping bags] here. Be careful, it's very hot."
When daddy got home from work she told him the same (and more elaborated throughout the day) story. It's an action shot ... she's showing him how it works. :)Pardon daddy's messy fingers ... he was interrupted while feeding the messy baby messy cereal. :)

#30: Mickey

2009-05-26T09:59:00.001-06:00

"Mom, look, I drew a picture!""And now I'm going to write your name ... M-O-M."

I asked her if it was a picture of me.

"No, mom, it's Mickey!"

Not too bad, eh? Add a couple big ears, and there you go!

#29: snail

2009-05-22T18:46:00.002-06:00

Backwards chef hat + pleasant evening + magnifying glass + a snail = backyard adventure!

#28: hippo chomp

2009-05-22T08:31:00.000-06:00

Okay, this was funny. This big purple hippo was chomping on the small hippo. Disturbing, perhaps? :) Don't worry, no hippos were harmed in the making of this post.

I loved the line of animals waiting to be chomped. I tried to click this quickly when she wasn't looking.

#27: princess sty

2009-05-21T22:40:00.002-06:00

Do you suppose she's trapped in there, or ... visiting the pigs? Huh, curious.

#26: elephant girl

2009-05-20T10:30:00.000-06:00

*disclaimer: her bedroom isn't always this messy :) ... and yes, she decorated the table herself. sigh.

#25: creepy blindfold

2009-05-19T08:06:00.003-06:00

That last post reminded me of this older picture from February.It gives me the heebie-jeebies because it reminds me too much of this.Name that movie?

#24: Tyrone has an owie

2009-05-18T21:52:00.006-06:00

This is Tyrone from the Backyardigans, if you aren't familiar.

#23: cup o' critters

2009-05-17T13:11:00.002-06:00

#22: dutch dozing

2009-05-10T20:14:00.003-06:00

Who is that sleeping in the klompen??
(Oh, if you're looking for a real answer, I'm not sure who that is ... some random jockey that came with a horse toy, I think? And it looks like some of the usual mini-animals?)

#21: peeking

2009-05-09T20:10:00.000-06:00

Playing under the ottoman. And side note, the underside of the ottoman is torn up due to a certain pup that we used to have that liked to hide under there.

#20: conducting

2009-05-08T21:18:00.003-06:00

This one is also a few months old. These are the kind of things that inspired this blog in the 1st place.She told me she was conducting them ... with an old hairbrush that I'm pretty sure I stole from my sister in middle school. Glad it's being used. :)

#19: rub a dub dub

2009-05-08T09:41:00.003-06:00

This is an older picture, but it made me laugh. Probably because it made me think of this.Except there was an extra hippo (?) in her version ... oh, and they were sitting in 1/2 an eggshell (from her play kitchen) ... but other than that ...

#18: bath monkey

2009-05-06T17:42:00.002-06:00

She told me the monkey was in her bedroom taking a bath, so of course I had to go check it out to see what that meant.

#17: Bob wants to play

2009-05-05T21:34:00.002-06:00

Bob felt left out, I guess. The conversation they were all having (via my girl) was funny enough for video, but this will do. :)Oh, and as I found out earlier, Bob and Larry may not be common knowledge to non-parents or non-VT fans. So if you have no idea what this giant tomato is or if this previous post was especially nonsensical, go here and enjoy. :) Or enjoy some tunes here. Or with video here. (There are bunches of them there, of course.) You're welcome. :)

#16: Rawr

2009-05-04T08:31:00.002-06:00

#15: li'l chef

2009-05-02T22:55:00.002-06:00

Yum. Strawberry orange pickle delight ... with a little bit of egg.I also watched her add a bit of flour and butter, and it looks like she had some ketchup all ready to add. Is your mouth watering yet? ;)

#14: napping pals

2009-05-01T21:21:00.002-06:00

The little fairy and her lion pal, all tucked in for a nap in the baby doll bassinet.

#13: picnic

2009-04-30T21:16:00.002-06:00

My girl loves "picnics." Sometimes she calls them tea parties, but usually we have picnics. Not sure why. Today I snuck (sneaked?) some pictures during our picnic.

She loves to set them up all by herself, like so.
She may have inherited the perfectionist, all-things-organized-and-in-a-straight-line gene from me. Oopsie. :) But at least she is creative, too.

Like so. This is what she served today.
(Note: though she set 4 places at the table, I was the only real guest. She made sure there was a seat for her baby sister and papa at work. Cute.)We had a delicious meal of pretend broccoli, which she graciously cut up for me (what 3-year-old eats pretend broccoli?!?) and some, as she dubbed it, "orange juice milk with cream, sugar, and lots of stuff." Num.

#12: sock fairy

2009-04-29T21:42:00.005-06:00

This is for Aunt J. :)My daughter has a strange tendency to take off her socks and put toys in them. Chances are you'll see this again. :)