Canadian Moms & Moms to be!

[Melissa_M]

I also loooooove gift cards.....guilt free shopping!!! yes please!

Amanda those dolls are awesome! Love the book idea too.

Joss I've looked on kijiji before but I can never find the stuff I really want haha. I got that link you sent me and while that's not the actual one I was looking for, I did have that set as a kid! So thanks!!
I want to get the little people Tudor house that I had when I was little. My parents and Nathan's parents both have it and she LOVES it. I've seen them on ebay but the shipping was crazy. Guess I'll just keep looking!
Amanda I still remember when you found a vintage little people train at VV and I was sooooo jealous

 

[ryder]

Ya I had that cottage and my mom still has it. Peyton likes it

 

[Maggs]

I love all that old fashioned stuff too! I was eyeing up some Fisher Price record players on ebay a while ago. You know the one with the carousel and the plastic records. I loved mine when I was little

 

[Sarahkka]

You know what I cannot find?
I want a reasonably-priced, designed-for-kids CD/cassette/mp3 player. I had the Fisher Price record player (not the toy one, but the kid version of a real one - made with industrial strength plastic!) from Santa when I was four or five and I adored that thing. I would spend hours rocking out in my room to Raffi records.
I really want to find a modern version of that for the boys, but it simply does not exist. It's all cheap, easily-breakable throwaway crap. Even a cheap little ghetto blaster-type thing would more than likely be me flushing money down the toilet as I highly doubt a $30 unit is going to last long with toddlers.
I miss Fisher Price old-school quality, dammit! We pulled out some of my brother's FP toys that had been stored under my parents deck for 20 years and they are still in good shape.
I'm just tired of things breaking. Sigh.

 

[apple84]

https://www.thisoldtoy.com/new-images/images-ok/3000-4000s/fp3818-tape-record.jpg

I had this one growing up. My siblings and I loved it. We used to create our own talk radio shows and audio stories on it.

 

[apple84]

https://www.newlaunches.com/entry_images/0609/25/sony5.php

I have this Sony one Sarah and while its meant more for elementary school aged kids, it's a good quality CD player/radio. I use it to play lullabies in the twins room, but when they're older ill hand it over to the kids to play with.

Never mind, they're discontinued.

 

[Sarahkka]

Somehow the Sony picture isn't loading for me, Amanda! Do you have another link, by any chance?
And yes!! That is the old FP style I'm talking about! Like you could drop it out of an 80-story apartment building and it might get a slight scratch at worst!
I will see if I can find a picture of my old player....

 

[Sarahkka]

https://fisherprice.jpg

 

[Sarahkka]

Uh, yeah, that definitely did not work! Let me try again!

 

[Sarahkka]

https://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=https://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/fisherprice.jpg&imgrefurl=https://www.examiner.com/article/fisher-price-record-players-not-just-for-kids-anymore&h=368&w=400&sz=89&tbnid=JeLYizqbk3hViM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=98&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dfisher%2Bprice%2Brecord%2Bplayer%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=fisher+price+record+player&usg=__OU2EtKWc4OnHRqj7qC_jq3UyRH8=&docid=NNe-I3FkRyW9tM&sa=X&ei=ROuXUO3eBInTigL_-oCABQ&ved=0CEIQ9QEwAw&dur=2899

 

[Sarahkka]

Oh man, I give up!
Here is a link to a page with a picture of it:
https://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl...uXUO3eBInTigL_-oCABQ&ved=0CEIQ9QEwAw&dur=2899

 

[Melissa_M]

Amanda I had that tape recorder too!!! It was awesome!

 

[Melissa_M]

But I had a real record player in my room....I had a bunch of kids records and I would have solo dance/singing parties on my bed haha

 

[Vickie]

Hannah had a cd player that was supposed to be meant for toddlers (someone gave it to us) and the quality was awful, she broke it very very quickly!

 

[Sarahkka]

But I had a real record player in my room....I had a bunch of kids records and I would have solo dance/singing parties on my bed haha

You're a girl after my own heart, Melissa!

 

[MommyKC]

Someone bought Kyree a pretend CD player for her 1st birthday, it had little play CD's that you put in it and it would play music. It lasted about a month before it broke.

Toys (like everything else) are definitely not made like they used to be.

 

[BlackBerry25]

I had the care bear version of that record player AND BRIAN GAVE IT TO VALUE VILLAGE.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGHHHHHHHHHHH

Hulking out here.

 

[MommyKC]

Oh Wendy, you need to come on here more often.

 

[Tiff]

I agree!

 

[TRINITY25_99]

Hello, I am from Durham Region about 45 mins east of Toronto, Canada ... first time Mom here, excited and VERY nervous! It's been a looooong road (sigh)