YAY! Technology Works! / Excersaucer Review

You may wonder why I'm so excited! You see I've finally gotten my almost ten year old laptop to work! I'm writing from it now from my kitchen table while keeping an eye on my little man while he's in his excersaucer. You'll also notice that I've changed the layout once again. I was hoping to put in something fall like but I couldn't find anything that really fit the bill with three columns. I had to work with the HTML a bit to get the title of the page moved down a bit and so that the two lines of text lined up but I finally did it! YAY!

So any ways, since I mentioned earlier I do a quick little review of our excersaucer.We actually have two of the bulky toys. One was a shower gift and another was a hand me down. The hand me down is a Graco Baby Einstein Discover and Play Entertainer (currently listed as unavailable on Amazon.com) which was the first one that my son got to try. This one does require batteries but only for one of the eight toys on it. My son loved the three wheels each made to make a different sound (bell, pebbles and click) and it was the first thing he learned how to do. The battery operated bit is like one of those old 80
s memory games but instead of colors and flashing lights you have animals. As the baby presses on each animal (cat, dog, duck, cow and lion) he gets to hear the sound they make. If he presses the same button again he'll hear the word in English. If he presses it a third time he'll hear it in Spanish. so far these are the only things that he really plays with in this saucer and he's six months. It seems to me that he gets far more interaction with his newer saucer.

His newer saucer is an Evenflo Farmyard Excersaucer Mega. This one require no batteries and has seven toys/activities and a snack tray. By far his favorite is what what my husband and I refer to as his "chicken ball" a clear plastic ball with three chickens inside with little egg shaped pebbles that he can spin at his heart's content. He also enjoys the rocking horse that clicks when moved and the small mounted flip book.There are also a couple of toys that are great for teething that have been a godsend. This saucer also has a small mirror which provide him with tons of amusement as well. We haven't really tried the snack tray yet other than to hold a cold teething ring but seems to just like hanging on to it and jumping around! Since I did get this one fresh out of the box there was some assembly required but it was a piece of cake just following the instructions.

In this case I would definitely say that batteries don't necessarily make it better and would recommend the Evenflo saucer to the Graco. I hope you find this helpful and let me know if you baby prefers one type to another! I'm always interested in getting feedback!