Toy Store Experience

Last night was Lynlee's first experience in a toy store. Blickenstaff's is literally just down the street from where we live so we all took a nice little family walk down there last night. If you haven't been there, you should go! They have all sorts of games and toys, and I'm not talking like your local Toys R Us selection of toys. I'm talkin' old wooden toys and games you haven't heard of in years, candy from the early 1900s, unique gadgets that could entertain for hours (Chris found a whistle thing that sounds like a duck quacking and carried it all around the store with him like he was 5 years old) - the list goes on and on! Every time we go there I see at least 20 things that I would want to get for myself - and I'm a grown up! (But really a big kid at heart :)
I feel like the youngest generations have lost something in today's society. It's all about the interactive electronic era and while it is exciting and entertaining I feel that there's something to be said for sitting down with some plastic animals and playing zoo or spreading out the overwhelming number of pieces for your puzzle and getting lost for a while in putting the picture together.

Not that she really knew what was going on, but there were a few toys that Lynlee found interest in (she's only 3 1/2 months old) such as the finger puppets and normal hand puppets, a very hungry caterpillar toy with lots to crinkle and pull,  a giant giraffe (she just loved right up to that thing!) and a little kid-sized armchair.

She looks more like she's trying to escape in this picture but a few moments earlier she was just having a ball!

The Bross family had a blast in the toy store :) Like I said, if you've never been you should go! Even if only to walk down memory lane and discover a new kind of fun outside the ever-growing bombardment of the video game/constant tv watching era.
www.blickenstaffs.com