9 things my baby loved to play with that aren’t toys
The other day, my cousin and her 12-month-old baby came to visit. I pulled out an array of old baby toys I had lying at the bottom of the toy box, but I really shouldn’t have bothered.
You know what she ended up playing with? The tissue box, squealing with delight as she pulled the white sheets out of the box and we stuffed them back in for her.
It made me think back to the things my boys loved as babies more than their toys. Here are nine of them:
2. My (unused!) sanitary pads
Whenever my baby rummaged through the shopping bags on the floor when we got back from the supermarket, I knew I would have to gift him my packet of pads to play with for the next 20 minutes while I put everything else away. I even got into the habit of buying the bright fun colourful ones over the white generic brand ones as I knew this would make his day.
