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I try to buy toys based on their interests, or even what I think will be fun to play with, haha. Xander's into Thomas and trains and has a small train set, so I'm buying him more train pieces, which I know he'll love. Plus they'll be fun for me too! And both kids like Megabloks, so even though we have a bunch, I got more for them. You can never have too many, right? Other things though, I just kind of guess and hope they like. I bought a couple simple games to start playing with Xander that got good reviews, so I'm hoping he likes them.

I am super selective, I really think it out. We have never done any plastic! I think that I might loosen up, though I love heirloom toys. She is really into cars and trains and trucks right now, so we are going with that!

I buy toys mainly based on interactive play potential (as in with us) In other words, we get toys we actually want to play with, but we mainly try to build on the stuff she already has. She's interested in Legos, Sylvanian familes, trains, and little figures (MagiClips and Polly Pocket). But she's not very picky with toys, so anything is fine - for now this works.

I usually buy toys that I've seen DS play with a lot at school or friends' houses. And, also based on his current interests.