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Dada Mio

These little people are called “MiO” and they’re wonderful. They come in a pretty neat house, too. From Manhattan Toy Company.

Play Cooking

Play Cooking

That looks like a misshapen egg in the background, but it’s actually a mini fake plastic piece of bread.

More Play Cooking

More Play Cooking

Cooking

Cooking

These little pots and pans are from my mom; Ess loves to shuttle little cashew pieces between them and “heat UP”.

Counting Caterpillar

A gift from Auntie Katy to Ess. She (Ess) has her own unique counting style right now. Colors are down pretty well, working on numbers.

Humpy Dumpy

Humpy Dumpy

This animatronic goose recites poems. The first one is Humpty Dumpty. Ess calls her ‘humpy dumpy’ and thinks she’s a hoot.

Buggah

So we drove the few hours, through a dark morning up to Duluth, Ess sleeping in the backseat after a few miles of sleepy babble. We were bound for a dance competition for mama’s work, and like she always does on long trips, Ess woke up just as we were turning into the slow roads between freeway and competition. Once there, Ess received a little ladybug from Robin. Meant to be good-luck disposable hand-outs for the dancers, our daughter took her particular ladybug to be rather different than that.

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Avenging Unicorn

ThinkGeek sells an Avenging Unicorn Playset:

Unicorn has 7 points of articulation. People have one point of impalement.

avenging_unicorn

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Super Soaker Bottle Shot

For $8, the Super Soaker Bottle Shot by Hasbro is one of the neatest toys I’ve seen in a while.

The Super Soaker Bottle Shot is a pump-action water blaster that allows you to choose how much ammo you want. Nearly any standard water or soft drink bottle attaches with a twist to the blaster!

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Lego Land

Lego Land

Zubbles

Zubbles - Nearly opaque colored bubbles - took a guy at the U of M about 10 years to develop them. Wow.

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