Such a super cool word! And the reason grandkids exist, I do believe. My dear friend is preparing for her granddaughter’s first birthday, and she had one of those multi-colored xylophones to wrap for her gift. Ooh! I played with that toy into my teenager years at my grandmother’s house. (Mostly because there were approximately five toys in a box with which to play. And we didn’t have video games, now did we?)
It’s possible that phenomenal toy was the inspiration for my musical career. (Okay, more like musical appreciation – seriously, there is no career.) Plunking out tunes with those eight metal slats occupied a few of us grandkids. There was also an Etch-a-Sketch, which clearly indicated that a career in art was not in the cards.
Xylophones, the unheralded toy of young musicians!
Never realized, until a few years ago, that the Etch-a-Sketch was for training. You can write with your finger on any touch screen now….who knew!!
I know!!!! I still have an etch-a-sketch, too.