stuffed animal
When I was pregnant with my son, I went on a shopping spree for his nursery. I bought bottles, cribs, beddings, clothes, diapers, and a sterilizer. I did not want to buy toys at first because I figured he wouldn’t need it yet till much later. As soon as my son turned three months, he was already playing with the toys that hung in his crib. Now that he is a rambunctious one year old, he has outgrown all his baby toys and is now more interested in baby books, interactive toys and stuffed animals.
When I started buying him baby books, I discovered that they mostly had animal characters in them. All his board books featured animals. Whenever I read them I would point to the animals and make their sounds. I later realized that if I had stuffed animals, my son could recognize the animals faster. My son is able to touch and see how a stuffed dog, rabbit, dinosaur, and kangaroo actually looks like from all angles.