Having a houseful of kids (mine are 11, 7, and 3) often means that
there's a houseful of toys as well, but we've managed to (sort of) keep
things streamlined in our house. Although I cave in from time to
time on the impulse purchases, when I think about it, I see a definite
trend in what's actually being played with. Here's our top eight
(in no particular order):
1. Wooden trains and track. I am
almost embarrassed to say how many of these we own, and while I tried,
for a while, to avoid the commercialized Thomas trains, who can resist
trains with faces and personalities? Not my kids. And we
have the track to go along with it, having added more through the years
as my older son got older. He doesn't play with it as much
anymore (but his sister does), but it'll all be there for little Eric one day when his
interest in piqued.
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