For Christmas, my mom bought Dylan a gift that I even considered taking it back and getting something else as I thought that he had something very similar to it. However, I was wrong. Out of all the gifts, it ended up being his favorite. When I say his favorite, I mean these things very rarely leave his hands. They even made it to Hawaii with us.
The gift, it was the Apple Grove Pals Farm Playset by Little Tikes. The set that he got for Christmas was the Farm Play set which included 3 characters: a cow, a pig and a zebra. With each set, a storybook is included. The characters, playsets and storybooks teach friendship, curiosity, courage and other important life lessons. Each character comes with a removable hat which any character can wear, but Dylan doesn't like to mix things up. He's a little OCD like that. After we saw how much Dylan enjoy the characters, my mom and I begin searching for more of them. She is an avid shopper and came across 3 more sets of the characters and 1 set. Dylan's stash is now up to 14 characters, the farm set and the train set.
We play a game with the characters and the hats and match them up. He knows which hat belongs to which character. Along with his original ones, my mom has bought him every single set she has come across, so his numbers are up to 14 characters, the farm set and the train station. He loves these things like none other. He sleeps with them, eats with them and takes them everywhere. At first, he stuck to his original characters pig, cow and zebra, but now he loves on all of them equally. He loves rhino, beaver, waddle waddle (aka penguin) and mouse just as much as the originals. One night he was playing quietly in his room and when we walked he had all the characters line up on his crib railing, all facing the same way. He slept with them there that night and it was the sweetest thing. These are toys that we will never get rid of and keep for him one day to have a piece of his childhood and share with kids one day.
One of the storybooks :
The characters with their matching hats: pig, cow, zebra (Farm set) mouse, duck, tiger (Breaking News Pack), rhino and beaver (Train set), dog, eagle, dog (Heroes are Everywhere pack), penguin, owl, chicken (Great Pancake Caper pack)
At present, beaver and mouse are on the loose so pray that I find them as Dylan has been asking for beaver. 
2 comments:
Your mom an avid shopper? Noooo:) Maggie loves figurines...she has Yo Gabba Gabba characters and they go everywhere with us and sleep with her too. She carries them all in her purse! Ha! I need to search for those they look cute and i like that they have a book with each set.
I saw some at Marshall's the other day and thought about picking them up for him. I just did not know which ones he had.
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