One of my grandchildren has the Yoto and the other has a Tonie. They both are happy. My granddaughter has the Tonie and she does enjoy playing separately with the figurines.
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LMM (1 1/2) loves her Tonie box. She plays with it before bedtime. Her cousins have one, too, but last time I checked, they were not that much into it (ages 4 and 7).
GD’s friend has both. D asked her mom which the mom thought was better for her D. She really likes the Yoto Mini. Both girls like to listen to stories in the car. GD and her friend are very similar, so D is getting a Yoto Mini for GD for Christmas. I will get some additional cards for her.
Yoto also has cards that you can purchase and record your own stories/playlists. An extra nice touch to do for grandkids near or far! Make Your Own Cards (Pack of 10 blank cards) for Yoto Player
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GD has both. It seems that the Tonie was used more when she was under 5 and the Yoto is used more now. Both have been used a lot.
GS is reading independently, so GD gets her Me Readers or her Yoto to join in.
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Little Miss Mess started new daycare last week - closer to home. She was not a happy camper on day 1! She has to sit in a little chair to eat lunch and snacks and to nap in a cot, like a “big” girl. Poor baby.
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Saw a piece on CBS news (it was a middle of the night thing) about the Bike Bus and the guy who invented it. It looks so fun.
I live in a neighborhood with a school fairly close. A lot of kids (k-5) ride and walk, and a lot of parents walk or ride to pick them up in the afternoon.
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Ah, just found it–yup! Grandkids’ bus looks a lot like these!
They usually run on Fridays, but they did it Halloween this week. Loved pictures of GD riding up the hill in her princess outfit!
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Mine too I don’t know know what it is
GD1 started nursery class at a prep school this year. She is not quite 4 yet. The other day she asked D1 if they could get 2 nannies, one for her and one for her baby sister. She also asked if they could get a bigger place, like so and so’s house (a full brownstone, rather than one floor through).
GD1 was looking through a toy catalogue and she wanted a toy with little marbles. D1 said no because it would kill her baby sister. After that whenever GD1 showed that toy to someone she would say, “this toy would kill my baby sister.”
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Ah! “Choking hazards!” A household favorite phrase here. Choking hazards include marbles, small balls like ping pong balls, grapes, small legos brinks, round carrot ‘pennies’, baby carrots and popcorn.
D1 who is an ER doc, says the food items that scare her the most are carrots and grapes since she’s had way, way too many little people patients come in choking on them. She banned grapes from the house until the littlest was 2 and still doesn’t allow baby carrots unless they are cut length-wise.
(And since they’re vegetarians, they would never have hot dogs in the house anyway. But hot dogs are also on the verboten list of foods for small children.)
But the absolute worst, she says, are foam balls since kids will break them into pieces and stuff them into various orifices where they swell, absorbing body fluids, become purulent and are extremely difficult to remove. She had one 3 year who developed meningitis from a foam ball that had work its way up his nose into his sinuses and became a host to a ranging bacterial infection. Scary.
(ER docs have all the best gross stories about all the different ways innocuous things can maim or kill you…)
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I cut grapes into quarters and cut baby carrots into thin matchsticks. Glad to know that my over protectiveness isn’t actually “too much.”
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I had a child who would put nothing (but her thumb) in her mouth. No toys, no dirt, no fruits or vegetables. She lived for years on scrambled eggs, cheese, elbow mac, and rolls. I think it was her first birthday when friends had a long discussion on how to cut a hot dog - circles, lengthwise…I just handed my kid the whole hot dog and she nibbled it like a rabbit.
I never worried about her eating cleaning products, soap, magnets, marbles, dirt, rocks, button batteries. Or most foods.
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I posted this at the political forum, but I thought it was so cool that GD1’s pre school decided to teach civic duty by having the kids vote on rice crispy or m&m cookie for their Friday dessert. GD1 voted for rice crispy. They are still waiting for the final result.
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The twins came home today wearing “I voted” stickers. (Same one mom & dad got when they voted last week.)
All the preschool classes voted on which book they wanted to read in library circle this week. Both girls voted for the same book: Ready to Soar.
https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Soar-Cori-Doerrfeld/dp/0593696727
Although they were very chatty about voting and filling out their ballots, I never a got a clear answer about what the other choice was.
I guess they’ll find out tomorrow who the winner is.
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I’m upping my grandma game…I made cinnamon roll monkey bread with a bowl of cream cheese frosting for dipping for breakfast this morning. (Big hit even with the grown ups)
My squeezable sauce dispensing bottles will arrive this afternoon so I can make pancakes in special shapes tomorrow morning for breakfast. (Promised Twin B, I’d make her a bunny.)
And I’m going to make egg bites for breakfast on Friday and let my helper chefs put in their own favorite fixings.
And Friday night I will make Grandma Pizza for dinner.
(Tonight’s dinner will be non-spicy Bibimbap; tomorrow will be a roasted fall vegetable and ricotta tart. Last night was spinach and gruyere quiche.)
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Three year old granddaughter called to chat. “I just wanted to talk to you.”
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@oldfort - love that. (I would have voted for the cookie,though).
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One of my granddaughter’s class did the same thing. Good lesson.
Little GD has finally decided she wants to talk. While we hear No! more than we’d like, we’ll take it since she’s also talking to her doll, to Mickey Mouse on TV, and once in a while to us now that we have her by herself pretty often. Big sister tends to talk for her when we have them together, so maybe she didn’t feel a need to talk before. She’s also bringing me books to read to her, especially Sandra Boynton books. H and I are delighted and relieved.
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