So about a month ago, Jeanne asked what James would like for his birthday. I thought about it and remembered this awesome toy that I had seen a Greg and Laura’s and knew it would be perfect. So I had her get us the super fun, super obnoxious ball popper.
Here it is:
Basically, you push the red button and it plays music and a fan pushes air around the tubes. The air makes the balls “pop” out of the top and they are supposed to then go back down the shoot into the tube to come out again. Here is James pushing the button to get it started:
And a few shots of him playing with it:
Now the SUPER fun part of this toy is shown here. The balls and tube are JUST the right size for James to stick his ENTIRE arm into the toy to either pull out or PUT IN different items. (I’m sure you can see where this is going….)
Well, before we realized this was the case we left it in his playroom with all his other toys….and we came back to find it FULL of everything BUT the balls that were supposed to go in there. There were the plastic cookies from his shopping cart, a square from his shape sorter, one of the plastic rings that lock together to attach toys to things….you get the idea. Here is his most recent attempt. We caught this one before there were too many items inside.
The other really fun part of this toy is that the balls are just SLIGHTLY smaller than the balls that came with all his other toys…..and so the other balls get stuck:
Luckily Mommy obsessively reads directions and remembered that it specifically mentioned that the toy was able to be disassembled. At first I didn’t understand why…..and then I realized that it is the only way to get all the extra toys out.
For your additional viewing pleasure (and mostly for my sister who can’t see him play with it in person), here is a video of him with his new favorite toy. Sorry it's sideways. I rotated it....and saved it that way....but it won't let me upload the corrected version.
