https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:57:07 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-toys-for-your-15-2-year-old#post-1090464 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:16:42 +0000 mediagirl 1090464@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T-Mom: haha, that's awesome. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-toys-for-your-15-2-year-old#post-1090410 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:03:21 +0000 T-Mom 1090410@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@irene: we have the kidoozie brand plastic fruit and veggie cutting set and we like it a lot. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-toys-for-your-15-2-year-old#post-1090322 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:43:13 +0000 banana 1090322@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@irene: Forgot to mention...This one gets tons of play at our house. It's really popular when we have playdates too. </p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Melissa-Doug-Deluxe-Pound-Tower/dp/B000VO3GME/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1379356959&#038;sr=8-2&#038;keywords=punch+and+drop" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Melissa-Doug-Deluxe-Pound-Tower/dp/B000VO3GME/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1379356959&#038;sr=8-2&#038;keywords=punch+and+drop</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-toys-for-your-15-2-year-old#post-1090314 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:40:52 +0000 looch 1090314@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Try the plan toys ones, we have the fruit set and after a lot of abuse, nothing is chipped off. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-toys-for-your-15-2-year-old#post-1090280 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:33:25 +0000 Mrs. Yoyo 1090280@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@irene: It does chip off. The same is true for every wooden M&amp;D toy I own, though :-( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-toys-for-your-15-2-year-old#post-1090244 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:15:48 +0000 irene 1090244@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks everyone!! I am leaning toward the cutting food toy that @mediagirl: suggests, but I am reading the reviews, and people are saying the paint chips off and all. Argh! </p> <p>@skibobrown: Ditto on the book! The storyline doesn't seem to matter anymore - at bedtime I'd ask LO to pick a book to read and he always pick that "matching" book where there are multiple pictures of objects, so I get to "quiz" him on what is what at our bedtime storytime. What a weirdo lol</p> <p>@banana: My LO loves mega blocks too! One of the best toy purchases we made :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-toys-for-your-15-2-year-old#post-1090026 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:06:45 +0000 Mrs. Yoyo 1090026@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son is 2. He has a play kitchen, nothing girly about it! He is also into trucks/trains/cars, puzzles, books of all kinds, balls -- all the normal stuff. He loves the cutting food. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-toys-for-your-15-2-year-old#post-1090017 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:03:50 +0000 lemondrop 1090017@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T-Mom: that's hilarious and adorable! I lol'ed. </p> <p>We just ordered a realistic baby doll off Amazon to get him used to the idea of being gentle with a baby and not throwing it through the basketball hoop ;) </p> <p>We are planning to do a play kitchen at Christmas when he's closer to 2, he just doesn't seem quite ready for it yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-toys-for-your-15-2-year-old#post-1089984 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:51:06 +0000 T-Mom 1089984@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DS just turned 2 and his favorite toy right now is his Thomas the Train wooden trains. Also, he hasn't ever fed any of our baby dolls. He just pushes them around in the doll stroller, and today I caught him giving the baby doll a kiss after yelling "sit down!" oops wonder where he got that from... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-toys-for-your-15-2-year-old#post-1089972 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:47:26 +0000 banana 1089972@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At around that age, my son loved mega blocks and puzzles of all kinds. And he surprisingly really loved his toy stroller. He liked pushing around his cars in it. :) In terms of pretend play, I don't think you necessarily need pretend play toys for him to do it. My son used to pretend to feed his cars with cheerios or pretend to put his soft animals to sleep by covering them with a blanket. You can have fun with pretend play with ordinary household items! The Little People toys are always a hit at around that age. And it helps engage in pretend play too. My son loved the Little People school bus. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-toys-for-your-15-2-year-old#post-1089816 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:58:24 +0000 mediagirl 1089816@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: @irene: I like the idea of cutting food! M&amp;D has some - <a href="http://amzn.to/1eitgKZ" rel="nofollow">http://amzn.to/1eitgKZ</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-toys-for-your-15-2-year-old#post-1089810 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:56:30 +0000 lemondrop 1089810@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Any kind of ball. If all we had was a ball, he wouldn't need anything else. We have the Little Tykes basketball hoop that hangs over the door- favorite. toy. ever. </p> <p>Also any board book that show pictures of animals and their names (no story involved, but I do the noises). He loves these books, but they do get old to us after "reading" them for the 6th time in an hour! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-toys-for-your-15-2-year-old#post-1089802 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:53:31 +0000 looch 1089802@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What about some cutting food, to practice dexterity?</p> <p>Another thing I really like was the Plan Toys Nuts and Bolts, I got them on Amazon. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-toys-for-your-15-2-year-old#post-1089801 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:52:49 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 1089801@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wish I had a suggestion for this but I'm curious myself. Instead, I'm commenting on the feeding the doll phenomenon. I got DS a set of play food when he was 18 months and a doll at 18 months. He hasn't tried to feed the doll but he's pretended to eat the banana (which is felt) several times. Does this count? ;)</p> <p>ETA: DS does like a truck set I picked up for him at IKEA a lot. It has a little crane with a magnet and he likes to pick the blocks off the trailer with it! He also enjoys sorting the correct blocks (red triangles, blue squares, yellow circles) into their correct slots. Maybe your DS would like something like this?</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/IKEA-MULA-Crane-Blocks-Beech/dp/9177122062/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1379346755&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=ikea+wooden+toy+truck" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/IKEA-MULA-Crane-Blocks-Beech/dp/9177122062/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1379346755&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=ikea+wooden+toy+truck</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-toys-for-your-15-2-year-old#post-1089787 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:47:52 +0000 skibobrown 1089787@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Right now -- just shy of 18 months -- DD likes:<br /> - All books, but especially picture books where I can say a word and she can point at the picture and try to repeat the word<br /> - A little bumble bee pull along toy - she pulls the string and the bumble bee buzzes and rolls along behind her<br /> - Soft blocks -- we don't have any at home, but they have these big soft stackable blocks at daycare that she's obsessed with. She can build them into a tower that is taller than she is!<br /> - Any kind of balls, but especially bouncy balls </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-toys-for-your-15-2-year-old#post-1089784 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:46:57 +0000 pelikila 1089784@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A Fisher Price Corn Popper was (and still is) a favorite for my son at that age. In reference to a kitchen and play food, yes my son has both. We like the Learning Resources play food a lot. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-toys-for-your-15-2-year-old#post-1089779 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:45:45 +0000 Mrsbells 1089779@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@irene: B.Zany Zoo.. she loves it!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-toys-for-your-15-2-year-old#post-1089770 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:43:41 +0000 autumnlove 1089770@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I want to buy Magnatiles! My LO really likes Mr. Potato head right now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-toys-for-your-15-2-year-old#post-1089755 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:39:10 +0000 irene 1089755@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What is your LO's favorite toy(s) for 1.5-2 year old? My LO is almost 20 months and I need to expand his "toy collection"... and I am $3 shy of free shipping at Amazon lol </p> <p>(my budget isn't $3, I just need to buy another toy or two :-))</p> <p>Another question for mothers of boys is, does your LO have a play kitchen or play food...etc.? I read that "feeding a doll" is a milestone by 18 months (?) But we don't have pretend food for him to feed the dolls, so I have never seen him doing the pretend feeding. I wonder if other boys have that as I always assume play kitchen / tea set is for girls...</p> <p>Suggestions please! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-best-vacation-destination-with-a-15-year-old#post-832507 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:45:14 +0000 regberadaisy 832507@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@daniellemybelle: haha for real. We have not even gone away for a weekend since August of 2010! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-best-vacation-destination-with-a-15-year-old#post-832478 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:37:46 +0000 daniellemybelle 832478@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd just like to say that I would be happy to be an au pair for any of you going on exotic vacations with your LOs. You don't even have to pay me - just buy my flight &amp; hotel room. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-best-vacation-destination-with-a-15-year-old#post-831826 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 05:00:49 +0000 lamariniere 831826@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We took DS to Portugal when he was about 15 months. Granted, we were already living in France so it was less than 2 hours by plane. But it was a great mix of cities (Porto and Lisbon) and country side (Douro Valley) and you could even do the beach. You could probably find a direct flight from Atlanta to Lisbon. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-best-vacation-destination-with-a-15-year-old#post-831586 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:32:26 +0000 doodlepoodle 831586@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Lozza: this is a total creeper/side note but when I was TTC and pg I followed your blog religiously and never knew this was you! </p> <p>Back to the topic at hand: we aren't doing any big traveling, I'm a scaredy cat. We are hoping to take a trip to Santa Barbara next summer, my grandma has a home there so we will have a kitchen, laundry, etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-best-vacation-destination-with-a-15-year-old#post-831444 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:25:33 +0000 tinyperson 831444@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were in Nice, France a couple of years ago and there were tons of young families around...we didn't have kids at the time so I don't have any great insight as to child- stroller-friendly activities to do there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-best-vacation-destination-with-a-15-year-old#post-831337 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:49:45 +0000 Mrs. Hula Hoop 831337@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were actually just talking about taking a trip to Iceland with our son who is now 19.5 months, too! Small world :) We probably wouldn't take this trip for at least 6 months though. Where did you end up going? If it was Iceland, I would love to know more.</p> <p>Jamie </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-best-vacation-destination-with-a-15-year-old#post-650511 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:04:10 +0000 Rubies 650511@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pui: LOL! "It's technically foreign..." I seriously almost peed myself. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-best-vacation-destination-with-a-15-year-old#post-650042 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:51:30 +0000 T-Mom 650042@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@irene: We stayed at a hotel since my BIL's place was way too small to host us. If we went again, I would probably try and rent an apartment, since this would have given us much more freedom when it came to food. DD would wake up at 11 pm and want to eat lunch, due to jet lag. We ended up having to save leftovers from dinner (which she tantrumed through) and feed those to her, but of course there was no microwave...</p> <p>Dim sum available all day long, copious food courts, 7-11's that sell hot foods, that is pretty kid friendly in my opinion! :-)</p> <p>There were suprisingly always high chair everywhere we went, and changing table. Also, many of the shopping plazas (seems like that is all there is to do in HK) have a floor devoted to kids stores, and there is always a family restroom there. We didn't venture too much off the beaten path and stayed mainly in Causeway Bay and Lantau Island (where family is).</p> <p>HK Disney, Macau, those are all places you can easily go that may also be of interest!</p> <p>Singapore was also a really good destination to take DD, but it is so small, you may not really consider that a true vacation. We did that as an extended layover on a trip to SE Asia and it was fun. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-best-vacation-destination-with-a-15-year-old#post-650040 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:51:12 +0000 wheres_c 650040@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@irene: my LO is 3 months and his passport has just come so we haven't traveled internationally yet. We are headed to London next month but I'm guessing you have already "been there done that". We had actually considered stopping in Iceland since it was cheap but ultimately decided against it.</p> <p>I've been to Peru three times pre baby and like @MediaNaranja: said, Latin America is very baby friendly. Rural Peru has lots of sites to see and lots of local children and animals to play with.<br /> When I went to Puerto Rico we stayed at a resort by the beach, but rented a car to see the sites and explore the rainforest.</p> <p>I think in any Latin American destination you would need to baby wear and either skip the stroller or use an all terrain stroller. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-best-vacation-destination-with-a-15-year-old#post-649915 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:10:08 +0000 MediaNaranja 649915@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Trailmix: @wheres_c: @irene: I was also going to suggest latin america. I know that there are direct flights from atlanta to lots of latin american cities. I havent personally been with a child but they LOVE babies and small children there. I know that Ecuador is only a 7 hour flight or so, or Buenos Aires could be fun, too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-the-best-vacation-destination-with-a-15-year-old#post-649863 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:57:26 +0000 irene 649863@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Trailmix: We are trying to stay away from beaches, because that would be too easy. LOL</p> <p>@T-Mom: kudos to you! That is our to-do list too as we have to go visit family as well. I've been kinda worried about it because growing up there, I don't think they have good amenities (eg. high chair, changing stations) everywhere like we do here in the US.... not to mention I am not sure if they have kid-friendly food if we just go out to a restaurant! (For now, I give LO some of whatever I eat from my plate). I just can not remember if people ever really bring small children (younger than 2) out to a restaurant to eat. I also heard from a relative that her child got food poisoning while in Hong Kong. Sigh.</p> <p>What was your experience? Did you stay at a hotel (or service apartment) or at family/friends' homes? Did you mostly eat out or eat at home with your family? Did you have problem finding changing stations? So many questions! :)</p> <p>@MungBean: Would love to Korea !!! But we have to pass the Hong Kong hurdle first. Then after hearing all the horror stories with cruises these past months I think we are going to steer clear from cruises for a while.... but that would have been a wonderful idea.</p> <p>@wheres_c: Have you actually been to Peru/Costa Rica / Puerto Rico with you LO? Of course that's wonderful, just that I am not sure how the experience would be hauling/carrying a possibly over-tired cranky tantrum-throwing child during the course. I'd love to hear your experience!</p> <p>I actually thought about Puerto Rico -- just want to get some advice from someone who actually has been there while carrying a child !! :) </p>