Plaid Overalls: gift from Grandma Vickie // try these or these, on sale at diapers.com
High top converse: thrifted // available here
Vintage Fisher Price Snoopy dog: mine as a child // several for sale on etsy
And The Obsession Continues.
There are few toys that you can honestly say last through various developmental stages. This is why we don’t invest in too many. Okay, okay, it’s also partly due to the cost of new toys and the clutter they add to the house. We don’t have a big home and it’s hardly my goal to fill each corner and crevice with big clunky devices that are hot one minute and cold the next. So why do I love Hooper’s vintage playskool giraffe? I love it for a lot of reasons, really. For starters it was a gift from his grandma. Gotta love awesome gifts. It makes a great photo prop. It’s also been one his favorite toys since he was ten months old and using it as a crutch to start walking. Then he was walking on his own and he no longer needed it for support but was too little to actually ride it, so he carried it everywhere. Then he became big enough to ride it and now he loves for us to push him on it while he lifts up his feet and enjoys the ride. In any case, it’s gotten a lot of use and is one of his favorite toys. So, with no further adieu, here are some pics of Hooper with his beloved “gia”, or giraffe. 
Etsy seller Fuzzymama has this one for sale for a very reasonable price, if anyone is interested.
Toys Toys Toys
No matter how many times I come to the realization that Hooper prefers the trash cans to his puzzles, I can’t stop my hunt for vintage toys. Here are some recent finds on Etsy that I’m drooling over. 
from etsy seller ReneeVintage
from etsy seller starfriendsonearth
from etsy seller petitsdetails
from etsy seller TheSpeckledMushroom
from etsy seller SweetShopVintage
from etsy seller bearuns
from etsy seller 1SweetDreamVintage
from etsy seller OliversForest
from etsy seller WoollyMammothVintage
from etsy seller moxiethrift
We Heart Vintage Toys
Hooper has many, many toys. He rarely plays with any of them. As you already know, he prefers the broom. Or the fireplace utensils. Or the swiffer. Or even the recycling bin. You get the idea. Many of his toys come in the form of gifts and many of them end up in his toy crate where he rummages from time to time. The majority of his other toys are hand-me-downs. From me. Or rather, from my mom. Toys I played with. I hardly consider my mom a pack rat, though she seems to pull out these amazingly nostalgic toys from hidden closets I must have never sifted through.
There are a handful of toys from our childhood that everyone seems to remember. The corn popper, for example. I look at the toys today and I just can’t imagine any of them becoming collectables or even shared memories among an age group. Maybe time will prove me wrong.
Anyway, as we scour the flea markets, consignment shops, and thrift stores, we just can’t seem to pass up a good vintage find. These toys are just so classic. We heart our vintage toys. Here’s a few from our collection:
The following toy cars were my dad’s as a child.
