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I want to buy Magnatiles! My LO really likes Mr. Potato head right now!

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.

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?

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?

http://www.amazon.com/IKEA-MULA-Crane-Blocks-Beech/dp/9177122062/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379346755&sr=8-1&keywords=ikea+wooden+toy+truck

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.

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!

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.

@T-Mom: that's hilarious and adorable! I lol'ed.

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

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.

Try the plan toys ones, we have the fruit set and after a lot of abuse, nothing is chipped off.

@irene: we have the kidoozie brand plastic fruit and veggie cutting set and we like it a lot.