The music box

Once in a while I visit the charity shops on our high road to see what hidden treasures are lurking in them at dirt cheap prices. Thrifty I know! I could not believe my eyes while we were in one today and T found a toy music box underneath a pile of cuddly toys I had been looking at. He had wanted one for ages having played with a similar toy at a playgroup we go until the battery in that died and was never replaced. At 99p, this music box is a bargain that should keep him entertained for quite a while.

His first proper video game

T is breathing a well deserved new life into the Nintendo DS I received for Christmas in 2009. A present I treasured and played frequently at first, once the allure wore out, it didn't take long for me to loose interest and toss it somewhere in the house because I am not the handheld console gaming sort of of individual. Luckily I didn't go and sell it off on Ebay or something like that because these days it has become a play and learning tool for the young man. I just brought him his first cartridge, a Sesame Street: Cookies Counting carnival bundle and he is loving the games that include number identification, counting, shapes and pattern recognition at the moment.