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Skwish - Manhattan Toy Co. A classic favorite develop-mental baby toy!  Skwishes flat and then bounces back!  Award winning classic toy.  More black, white, and red toys

Winkel - Pappa Geppetto's Toys Now, in NEW bright colors! The Winkel offers colorful loops and a lively rattle make this toy one of the best teethers around. Crafted out of safe, pliable plastic, it may also be frozen to soothe painful gums.

Iplay Super Spiral Play Tower Super Spiral Ball Play Tower by Iplay - International Playthings offers all kinds of fun! The penguin and two balls roll down the spiral tower, while the froggie slides down the tower's center. With one touch of a button, the froggie will pop out of the tower. Super Spiral Play Tower will offer fast moving fun for your little ones!

Taggies Stack 'n Nest Cups Three soft stacking and nesting cups with a twist and a surprise! Nest the cups by matching up the circles and the squares on either side to create a Lovable Taggies lion and cute Taggie Cow! And a surprise...an adorable Taggie mouse inside! Perfect for put-in/take-out activity and for playing variations on peek-a-boo. All ages- Suggested 6 Months +

Clutch Cube- by Lamaze The development to the ability to grasp and manipulate objects takes baby's exploration to an exciting new level. Exploration can be encouraged and stimulated by the baby's environment. • Soothing Chime Ball inside • Encourages eye-hand coordination • Designed for one or two handed play • Machine washable and safety tested • High contrast colors, patterns and characters

Whoozit Activity Galaxy Baby Toy NEW! Grasping, listening, teething, and shaking are just a few activities a baby will discover in this versatile, multi-faceted toy. Great interactive features stimulate motor skill development and increase cause-effect understanding.

Playnest & Gym A soft supporting multi-sensory environment for baby, Playnest features a fun farm scene with the Gym as the sky above. The 5 Gym toys are different on each side to give varied colours and patterns to provide visual stimulation and may be rearranged on the colourful links to create a changing environment. A guide gives suggestions on how to use the Playnest and Gym for play activities which stimulate development.  The Playnest cover, sky frame cover and soft toys are all machine washable.

Ball Party Bounce Toddlers love the Ball Party Bounce, following the action of these balls! Drop a ball into the tall funnel and it will manuever back and forth, rolling side to side, until it reaches the bottom. Turn the top funnel, and watch the ball hit the trampoline and bounce into the opposite funnel. Comes with six cute plastic balls.

Infant Stim-Mobile The Infant Stim-Mobile, by Wimmer-Ferguson reflects more than forty years of research on infant vision. This mobile provides a wide range of simple and complex graphics that give a baby unlimited opportunities to study the places where light and dark meet. Reversible graphic cards and Color-Cards allow parents to vary complexity and color as their infant develops. Infant Stim-Mobile Contains: 10 black & white reversible cards 1 sturdy, easy to adjust upright Instructions and Infant Vision Sheet Height adjustable; raise it up as baby's vision improves.

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FYI: Newborns can hear your voice, feel your touch, smell your scent, and taste anything you put in their mouths. Many people believe that they can improve their baby's intellectual development by playing classical music, particularly Mozart's music (Read about the Mozart Effect). However, it's the sense of sight which may more profoundly affect an infant's developing nervous system. 

A newborn's vision is not the most developed sense at birth because the retina is not fully developed.  The retina is the part of the eye that detects light, and while an adult's retina can distinguish between many shades and hues, an infant can recognize only sharp contrasts.  That means that while parents can recognize and appreciate the charming pastels on many playthings and decorous objects meant for babies, the babies themselves can do neither!  Pastels all blur together for them. 

Sharply contrasting colors, however, can be easily seen by babies.  What your baby will enjoy and appreciate are toys and decorations made in black, white, and red or in primary colors. 

Because the infant's retina is not fully developed, sharper contrasts register more powerfully on it and so will send strong visual signals to the brain.  Those stronger signals in turn lead to greater brain growth and faster visual development. 

Parenting Tip: 
Infants see objects most clearly when they are 8 to 12 inches away.  Keep this in mind as you interact with your baby.  Also, whenever possible, wear clothing with stripes of sharply constrasting colors.  Other designs with sharp contrast would work too.  My son used to love to stare at a light brown dress with dark blue flowers.  He'd sit on my lap and stare and stare and stare at them! 

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