Mini Trolley, Play Pretend games

Alicia has lots of toys and I figured that if I'm gonna blog about all of them, starting from the beginning, it'd be quite a nightmare for me. So I think I'll just blog about some of the toys that we just gave to her not too long ago starting with the mini trolley.

We bought a mini trolley for her during Takashimaya's toy fair this year (erm... one of the many toys we bought coz some of the toys were really cheap!) coz I remember my niece liking to pretend to push a trolley/pram of her size at a certain age (can't remember when exactly though). Anyway, play pretend games are always fun for the little ones - I love playing such games with her like making her soft toys (or rather mine :D) 'talk' to her or I pretend to play with her/my soft toys (now they've become shared possessions). Play pretend is a milestone that most kids would have reached by 17mths (Alicia's currently 16mths).

To side track a little, I found it very amusing when she shoved a spoon into her/my large plush Elmo's open mouth, pretending to feed him (this is yet another milestone - feeding dolls, in her case, soft toys). My hubby says that must be a reflection of how often i try to shove food into her mouth, so much so that she's imitating my actions. Hmm... I wonder if there's any truth in that... Anyway, feeding a doll is, according to babycenter, a milestone that half of kids would have attained by 17mths and one that most kids would be capable of by 20mths.

Well, anyway, back to the trolley. It's really a mini trolley. After I assembled the parts, I realised that it was so small, that it's hard to push along. I'd imagined that it's the same size as her walker but it's far from that!

The first time I let her play with the trolley, whenever she tried to push the tiny trolley, she would end up falling down. After several tries, she decided that it was a better idea to carry her mini trolley around... hahaha... I tried to catch it on the videocam but it was a really tough job! Anyway, these days she's gotten a hang of how to push the trolley without falling down and she would load her trolley with her toys and just go around happily till the next more interesting toy catches her eye...

Here's the box illustrating the mini trolley:

And here's the pack of groceries that comes with the trolley:

Here's how small her trolley is:

And here's a video of alicia playing with/ carrying her trolley around that day: