Yeah, I'm having the "doesn't like toys much" problem. He has an insane number of blocks, wooden donughts & rings, beanbags, balls, ropes, and scarves than he likes & has liked pretty much since birth. The baby chime and squish also have some play value. Anything else lasts about 5 minutes. 15 if it's really good.
He likes games more, but he wants longer ones than the little nursery rymes most people can teach me, and he doesn't do a lot of the stuff (like handing things *back,* stacking stuff, and oh, say, locomoting) that make toddler games work. He's interested at the library for about 1.5 hrs, which is about as long as one place ever works w/out using games :), but it still doesn't fill 10 hours very easily! The science museum is good for a full day, but that only handles a day a week at most. Most places are good for 0.5 - 1 hour, and I think the best length for a game is about 5-10 minutes right now.
He does like walks and playgrounds (when he was colicky, we used to take him swinging just to get a break!), but it's getting too cold to stay out for very long (we usually funky-place hop for 4-5 hours a day). We are going to swim when the new term starts, he loved it when he was 2-4 mos & we have a great pool next door.
Yeah, behind is a wierd idea... I think he's just not interested in a lot of that stuff. He sees no reason to roll over unless one gives him one, and then he just gets annoyed, flips over, growles, and gets on with other things. But it means he's skipping crawling -- which he *would* have liked.
Thanks for the suggestions so far, I'm still hoping for more
-Michaela
