Is my baby a weirdo?

HappyAardvark · October 2012

I see all these posts where you talk about your baby loving this toy, or playing with that toy. Wes doesn't really play with "toys." All the plastic, electronic crap he got for his bday? Not so much as a passing glance. Motor skill toys, like his rainbow xylophone, or his stacking cups, or stacking rings, he just enjoys tossing them around the room. He is much more interested in crawling around exploring since he's not walking yet, tossing all the s hit on any surface within reach onto the floor, trying to climb on things, etc, than "playing" with any type of actual toy.

Normal? Anyone else?

missyishere · October 2012

Nora likes her stacking cups, stacking ring-thingy, and other motor skill toys just as much as the electronic ones. She likes the electronic ones for a short period of time, then she gets sick of them. She always goes back to the basic ones, especially her drum- she loves to drum!

Shannon526 · October 2012

Like wishful said, L usually likes to play with things she shouldn't. Her attention span for playing with her actual toys can be anywhere from 3-10 minutes... and then she lets you know she's bored.

The one thing that can occupy her for like 20 minutes is looking at old pictures that we have in a tupperware bin. She literally just sits there and goes through each one. She makes a huge mess, but it's worth those 20 minutes!

RoxRing · October 2012

Edison likes light switches, fans, door latches and closing books that I read to him. He does like kicking a ball around, but he is walking. He plays with a few things, but not as much as he plays with the pull string on his lamp!

pennysuedog · October 2012

Violet likes: Destroying folded laundry, climbing, ripping paper, eating weird things she finds around the house, biting the dog (poor Penny) throwing toys down the steps, sneaking into the older kids' bedrooms and messing up their stuff, banging on the window, screaming, being chased and getting her head stuck . (Toys, not so much)

jonnygurl76 · October 2012

Then my baby is a weirdo too! DS does all the things Wes does and the only toy that holds his attention is a ball, he loves to roll it and chase it or roll it back and forth with one of us. Everything else gets thrown on the floor to see how loud of a noise he can make with it.

kagl08 · October 2012

DS likes to play with cabinet doors, he likes throwing things out in the garbage that shouldn't be throw out, he likes unfolding laundry, he likes playing with anything his sister is playing with or I just put away.

He does like his drums, his play kitchen, the Leap Frog letter phonics fridge game, books and matchbox cars. He's hit and miss though. Some days he loves his toys other days he doesn't touch them.

Nita2603 · October 2012

HappyAardvark:
I see all these posts where you talk about your baby loving this toy, or playing with that toy. Wes doesn't really play with "toys." All the plastic, electronic crap he got for his bday? Not so much as a passing glance. Motor skill toys, like his rainbow xylophone, or his stacking cups, or stacking rings, he just enjoys tossing them around the room. He is much more interested in crawling around exploring since he's not walking yet, tossing all the s hit on any surface within reach onto the floor, trying to climb on things, etc, than "playing" with any type of actual toy. Normal? Anyone else?

That would be Alastair. I'd say normal.

jwls84 · October 2012

B prefers to play with anything that isn't a toy! If he knows it is wrong to play with it he runs so fast in the other direction, giggling!
He does play with his toys once we have removed everything else in the room.

nicki731 · October 2012

I didn't read this post until after I posted about how much G loves his new toy... it wasn't intentional, sorry HA! G doesn't often focus on a toy for more than 30 seconds...

CMonkey515 · October 2012

DS isn't interested in his toys lately either. Sometimes he'll grab them and throw them around the room for fun. Or he'll dump out a bin of smaller toys just to make a mess, but that's it. he's walking so he spends most if his day walking back and forth through the house looking for things to mess with that he's not supposed to. He loves to press the buttons on the blu-ray and sound system, and spends a little time every day turning the x-box on and off a million times. His absolute favorite thing to play with now is a stack of red solo cups that we leave in the living room for him. He takes the stack apart and tosses the cups all over the place. Then he gathers them back up and re-stacks them. Or he gives them to us so we can build a tower with them and he runs across the room and knocks it over. But, yeah, all the actual toys he has are a total waste right now.

BeesMomma00 · October 2012

Brooke could have cared less about toys. Until someone bought her this: https://exton.learningexpresstoys.com/buy/icty1581/hide-n-squeak-eggs/

Now she's addicted. Still her favorite things are books. She constantly picks books up, brings them to me, sits on my lap, and turns the pages.

ETA: It says that it's a choking hazard and shouldn't be used under 3... I have no idea whose mouth these things would fit in, except maybe an adult. Strangely, it's also recommended for children ages 1-3. LOL

mamaZbo · October 2012

Dd likes shoes, hers, mine and dh's. Tonight I went around picking up shoes and there was one in the kitchen, one on our drum, one on the couch, a couple down the hall, and several more strewn about the floor. She carries them around saying "shoooosh". Does she say mama? no. papa? No. All she says is "shoooosh" and "dhis". She does like her vetch telephone that someone so generously gave her for her birthday, but at least it has a volume button.

Chunstad · October 2012

Woodsie:

The only things T is interested in are books and trucks/cars/tractors. He loves to sit and flip through the pages of a book by himself, or will hold out books for us to read to him. He also pushes toy trucks/tractors around on the floor or along the couch or any other low surface (he makes a weeee-ooh-weeee-ooh sound with his firetruck now, so cute!)

If I try to give him any other type of toy or interact with him in another way though, he'll just stare at me or the toy, push or throw it away, and crawl off to find a truck or a book, or just crawl around, pull up on things, or cruise along furniture.

I think some babies are just busier than others. Wes is probably just a mover and is more interested in exploring his surroundings rather than sitting and playing with toys.

C does the same exact thing with his cars! He lives for his cars, trucks, and Caterpillar equipment. I bet that they'd have a blast playing cars together. He also loves a book called 'Roadwork'.

thetheisens · October 2012

BeesMomma00:
Brooke could have cared less about toys. Until someone bought her this: https://exton.learningexpresstoys.com/buy/icty1581/hide-n-squeak-eggs/
Now she's addicted. Still her favorite things are books. She constantly picks books up, brings them to me, sits on my lap, and turns the pages.
ETA: It says that it's a choking hazard and shouldn't be used under 3... I have no idea whose mouth these things would fit in, except maybe an adult. Strangely, it's also recommended for children ages 1-3. LOL

I got those for ds for his birthday too. He loves making a mess with them. I don't know how they would choke on them either. He loves noisy, electronic toys. In general he just likes to make a mess, whether it's toys or just stuff he gets into, like pots and pans or dvd cases.

AngLK987 · October 2012

None of it really holds layla's attention for any amount of time, she'll pull EVERYTHING out of her toybox, then crawl away from all of it. Her favorite thing to do is carry around remotes and shoes as she crawls in and out of her chair, we have her "bouncer" chair set up in the LR, it's pretty sturdy so she crawls in and out of it all day, then she'll move on to pulling all the DVD's off the rack, all the clean clothes out of the laundry basket, and go back to pulling more toys out of the toybox.

FabulousMrs.P · October 2012

My daughter spends more time throwing her toys (stacking rings, ball, etc) and chasing after them than anything else. She sort of plays her own game of fetch. She also likes to crawl and explore. (She isn't walking yet.) The only thing that even remotely seems to keep her attention is books. She loves to sit and look through them.

NHbride129 · October 2012

My oldest didn't play with toys until he was 1.5-2. I remember thinking he was weird too. He would just sort of run around all day. Now he's 3 and toys are his whole world!

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