MotherSister Brooklyn

Speaking of toys, The Scamp’s current favorite is his Fisher-Price turntable.

Babble has a semi-interesting piece on Gen-X parents’ susceptibility to toy marketing (especially nostalgia toys), and considering that I’ve already bought The Scamp the aforementioned turntable, given him my Little Professor (for when, y’know, he can actually count), and am searching on The Hub’s behalf for a Speak ‘n’ Spell (which are going for $40+ these days), we might seem to fit the marketing data to a tee. But the acquisition of the FP turntable was a little more organic than that: At barely more than 1 year old, The Scamp took a great interest in our fancy adult version, and around the same time, Grammy reminisced about the old “See…Hear…Read” 45s I used to have. (”I thought those were really great,” she sighed wistfully.) And so I scored a vintage FP turntable from a Williamsburg hipster who was moving back to Cali, and started buying the most interesting records I could find. The Scamp has a nice little collection going:

I’ve lost out on a couple of records I really wanted for him, like “Muhammad Ali & His Gang Vs. Mr. Tooth Decay,” but I reckon we’ll be crate digging together well into the future.

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