A Bit of Nostalgia

For those of you in my age range, you may appreciate this. I am lucky enough to still have several toys from my childhood and have already gotten a few of them out for Emily to play with. But one had not been taken down off the shelf until last night...my Winnie the Pooh record player and several of my little records that go along with the story books. You might remember these books/records. Tinkerbell would ring her bell and that's how you would know to turn the page. So last night, after Emily spotted the record player in her closet and asked to get it down, I agreed. I might add that while this record player was purchased at least 3o years ago from Sears (the Sears emblem is still affixed to it) and played for what must have been hundreds of hours, when I plugged it in yesterday, it still worked like a charm. I have to say that I don't remember the quality of the records being quite so bad and grainy. I suppose this digital age we live in has me spoiled. Here are some photos of some of my records and my record player, complete with the pennies still taped to the top of the stylus to keep the records from skipping (remember doing that??).

I'm amazed, when putting the first record on last night, how quickly the words and music came back to me, like it had only been a week or two since I last listened to them. Unfortunately, with a very cranky baby and a 3 year old with an attention span of about 12 seconds, the player and records were put back up on the shelf before long. But I did promise Emily that we would get the "toy that turns around" (her words) out again this weekend when Daddy was home to look after Benjamin. Oh, how I love a stroll down memory lane!