After finding endless amounts of Bunchems stuck in the
living room rug, I began mentally listing the irritating toys we have in our
house, so I have compiled them into a list for you and see if you share the
same pain.
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| Jack picking toys at Toys R Us! |
Here goes...
1.
Furby.
Jack likes his furby, the feeling is not mutual. Furby is irritating when he is
in a good mood, when he goes off on one, and is telling you to shut up and
sarcastically repeating ‘Oh my God’ at me, he is going to get thrown out of the
window. Jack still believes his batteries have gone.
2.
Lego!!
Lego is great, its great for childs development and fine motor skills,
especially as Jack has recently been diagnosed with DCD, so I tolerate the mess
it causes. However, its not great when you are standing on pieces of it running
to the loo in the middle of the night or jamming the hoover with that important
piece that means the entire set is now non and void.
3.
Nerf
Anything.. There is a current nerf obsession in our house now, I find nerf
bullets everywhere I go, whether I’m washing the pots or cleaning the bathroom,
there are always nerf bullets. I find them in my pockets, in my shoes and even
in my hair! Then on the one day a week I get a lie in, the boys decide to load
their weapons and awaken me with bullets firing of my head!
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| Jacks 6th Birthday with his fave prezzie! |
4.
Bunchems.
I thought bunchems looked new and different, they certainly are. They are easy
to build unique creations for young children. If you have relatively normal
children, you may find them endearing. Nether less, normal isn’t a word id use
to describe my boys. Bunchems get stuck in your hair when your children decide
to throw them around, they are impossible to peal of your older sons hockey
shin pads when the little one thought it would be hilarious to decorate them.
They stick themselves to shaggy rugs like nit eggs do to your darlings hair
strands.
5.
Hatchimal.
We succumbed to the pressure of the hatchimal on Jacks 6th Birthday
which he called Dragon, imagine a whiny baby that doesn’t want to be put down,
you’ve got the hatchimal! It sets you back sixty pounds and a portion of your
sanity. The most exciting part was it hatching and the batteries going flat. It’s
similar to Furby but without the obnoxious attitude and has a slightly better accent.
Due to allergies, we cannot have fluffy pets in our house so Dragon was the alternative,
Jack does carry it around like a baby for around 5 minutes a day still after a
month but play value has nothing on Playmobil and Nerf.
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| Dragon hatching! |
6.
Toot Toot
Track..This is a series of toys made by vtech, aimed at age range 18
months to 5 years. They come with delightful leaflets of the toot toot town
built with all the sets together that no 18 month old, let alone a 5 year old
would be able to accomplish. End result..Mummy has to step in and spend 2 hours
building it while all the little cars sing ‘charming’ songs at you! Its also
incredibly bulky, and now lives in our shed outside and gets built along the
path outside.
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| The track designed for 18 month olds to build ;) |
7.
Playmobil..
I think the amount of detail that goes into Playmobil is amazing. You may need
a bank loan for a decent amount but we have built our collection over a few
years. However, it has similar traits to Lego that it has so many tiny parts
that require building before you can play. Reconstruction also repeatedly required through play when your heavy handed 6-year-old
collapses the fire station and hospital several times and then at the end of every day when there is a row of Playmobil
police officers waging war against the Skylanders across the laminate. Parents
can have their own fun with playmobil however, take a look at the arrested
stripper in the police station…
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| Stripper at the Police Station! |
8.
Pokemon
Cards. I hate Pokemon cards! The amount of times I have picked them up off
the floor and they don’t really seem to offer any entertainment value. Just encourages
an already particular child to arrange piles of cards in certain orders and the
clumsy messy child to throw them back all over the floor. They’ve joined the Lego
on top of the wardrobes that cannot be reached, however Nathan always wants too buy more!!
Nothing currently makes my boys smile more than Nerf toys!! What is your child's favourite toy? Maybe one that drives you equally insane as Furby does to me!
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| Happy Child! |
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Much Love Jxx
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