Top ten Toys for your little bundle of joy:



1. Zapf Giggling Chou Chou Doll.

These little toys help babies and young children practice their people skills and model behaviors

that they see. Young kids would tell their "babies" (aka their dolls) not to put things in their mouth or not to run into the street. They may even feed them, rock them and nurture them just like their moms did to them.



2. Fisher Price Laugh & Learn Phone.

Babies and toddlers are always trying to get at the phone or at the remote for the television. They love the buttons and the noises they make, by using the Laugh & Learn Phone babies are developing speech and social skills. They are expanding their vocabulary and learning to use phone-appropriate words.



3. PlayHut Yellow Bus Play Tunnel

All children love to crawl into tight spaces, especially wondering, wandering babies. Children can learn how to use their imaginations at a very young age, weather the tent be a cave, or a house they love it. This inexpensive collapsible tent is good if your space limited. It easily folds up and can fit under bed, in a closet or in a corner.



4. Melissa & Doug Wooden ABC Blocks

Building blocks are a good way for babies to use their imagination and get a grasp on things. It also teacher them cause and effect, by them building the blocks into a tall tower and being able to knock them over.



5. Fisher-Price Animal Sounds Farm

Babies love the sounds of animals, anything from a cows moo to a ducks quack. The Fisher-Price Animal Sounds Farm is good for babies to learn about occupations and hard work. They love to pretend they are driving around the tractor and feeding the animals.



6. Little Tikes Shopping Cart

Babies love to pretend shop! They like to push around the carts and they can be used as other things like a car, or a train, a doll crib. The best thing about the carts is you can play clean up games and race your toddler to see who can fit more things into the cart and make it over the finish line first. (Basically make it to the toy box first)



7. LeapFrog See and Learn Piano

Music makes everything better, babies and toddlers love to dance and sing. The LeapFrog See and Learn Piano can help babies learn rhythm and beat. Dancing is also a great work out for babies and toddlers, seeing as how they have so much extra energy.



8. Little Tikes Home Improvement Workshop

Kids love to bang on things with hammers! Babies can learn model behaviors from watching adults fix things up.(Just don't say anything bad when you hit your thumb with a hammer!) They love to see how things work, and where everything goes.



9. Little Tikes Cookin' Sounds Gourmet Kitchen

Little kids love to cook and make different foods for you or their friends, and sometimes stuffed animals and dolls. They can learn about safety and doing for others, just how good it feels to make someone nice and full after they eat their plastic eggs. Often kids tell friends about how hot ovens and sharp knives are not toys and should be dealt with carefully!



10. Little Tikes Cozy Coupe

This toy will surely help your babies imagination grow, they pretend to drive and go on little adventures with their friends, dolls, and sometimes you. They will teach their friends how to buckle up and be safe!

Potty training Success Boosters

Wait until your child is ready. Trying to potty train a child who's not ready can actually extend the process. And avoid starting training when there are other big changes in your child's life, such as illness, divorce, a death in the family (even of a pet), and moving to a new home.

Take it one step at a time. Despite all the stories you might have heard about children who jumped from diapers to big-kid underpants in a day, potty training is a process that, for most children, involves several distinct steps that are learned one by one and over time. To get the process going, you may want to start by leaving a potty seat on the floor of the bathroom for a few days; tell your child that the little toilet is for her, and the big one is for grown-ups. A few days later, have her sit on the seat (fully clothed is fine). After another few days, start asking your child a number of times every day whether you can take off her diaper so she can sit on her special seat.

Get the right equipment. Child potty seats should be low enough that both feet can rest firmly on the floor. Skip the urine deflectors (shields that attach to the front of the seat to keep boys' urine inside the toilet). They seem like a great idea but can sometimes hurt boys who don't sit down exactly right, and the last thing you want is to have your child associate going to the bathroom with pain. Some seats have multiple stages: They start out as a child-sized seat that sits on the floor and then convert to an adapter that sits on a regular seat. Some even play music when a child is seated.

Don't flush in front of the child, at least at first. While some kids may be fascinated and want to flush over and over and over, others may be terrified, believing that a part of them is being sucked down the toilet.

Minimize or eliminate liquids within an hour of bedtime. This will increase the chances that your child will wake up dry;something that will boost his confidence.

Learn to recognize the signs. When you see that knees-together, bouncing-up-and-down dance, find a bathroom fast.

Be positive, but not too positive. Too much excitement about the contents of a diaper can give a toddler the idea that what he's produced is somehow valuable; a twisted notion that may result in him wanting to keep it for himself (inside his body if necessary).

Be flexible. Some regression is perfectly normal, especially if you've moved, changed babysitters, or had a death in the family, or if the child has been sick.

Don't worry about night training for a while; at least until your child is regularly dry after waking from naps and occasionally dry in the morning. Overnight bladder control doesn't usually come for a year or so after daytime control.