There is a truth universally acknowledged that you should never work with children or animals.
Whilst I am VERY fond of my niece, I can’t imagine ever wanting to work with her in any kind of modelling or acting capacity and I have a new found respect for any commercial showing children playing placidly with a toy. This little one DOES NOT SIT STILL!
Last week, Nuffnang kindly sent over the Fisher Price 1-2-3 Crawl Along Snail for Miss Ella to play with, and I excitedly produced the toy at our weekly family dinner. Miss Ella, aged 15 months, sits right in the middle of the recommended age bracket for the toy (3-36 months) and waited impatiently for me to unpackage the new goods.
As a first time Aunty, I get a kick out of buying toys that make noise for my niece – I realise one day this will probably come back to bite me, but I kind of think that’s part of the job. The Crawl Along Snail has two volume settings – one (loud) for fun aunts when playing with baby, and the other (softer) for weary mums when baby needs to entertain herself.
Miss Ella didn’t quite get that you could push the Crawl Along snail (although I had a lot of fun showing her) but she did enjoy spinning it on the spot. The lightup face was also a draw card (personally, I liked this too, especially when the lights and music would spontaneously go off on their own while we were having dinner, think it’s from the vibrations on the floor. Kooky though!)
Nana had a little too much fun with the toy as well, announcing that the Crawl Along Snail could live at her house. Miss Ella’s mum was pleased to have a toy that entertained baby all by itself. I also like the mirror – we all know I am a little bit vain!!
The pictures don’t really do our playtime justice: like I said, trying to photograph a tenacious 15 month old is anything but easy. As soon as I’d get a good angle, she would move and the pic would be blurry, or I’d get the back of her head!
A great Christmas present for the little one in your life!
Fisher Price 1-2-3 Crawl Along Snail RRP $16.00
