“I want!  I buckle!”

That’s the standard saying in this house from my two year old son, Joshua.  Everything, everywhere.  Grocery store carts – “I buckle!”, Car seat – “I buckle!”.  He buckles.

I do a lot of reviews and I always accept the ones suitable for my family (and me, I’m a fan of me) and when I was contacted by BuckleyBoo about their line of buckle items for toddlers, it was like the angels sang from above.

I little dramatic, you think?  NO.  Not when you’re child is mine.  Buckle.  Buckle, buckle, buckle.

I vlogged the cutest thing you’ll ever see so instead of me writing about our experience, you can see it first hand.  Before you watch the short clip that is so cute you’ll melt into the floor, I’ll give you a few details about the company-

Toddlers are fascinated with buckles, often bypassing a “developmental” toy to play with the buckles on their diaper bag or highchair.  Emily Ross and her mother, a child psychologist, observed this fascination with buckles and created BuckleyBoo, a collection of stuffed toys and crib accessories that encourage cognitive and motor development while appealing to toddlers with a bevy of buckles!

BuckleyBoo toys encourage cognitive development through multi-stage learning.  Starting at 15 months, a child embarks on a developmental journey where each mastered task serves as a springboard for the next level of learning.

Matching is the first developmental step with BuckleyBoo.  The child learns to scan and match the five brightly patterned ribbons, i.e., match polka dot to polka dot and stripe to stripe. At 18 months, children are ready to buckle, but are still not able to unbuckle, making BuckleyBoo a toy that is shared between parent and child.  Now that they have five of their own buckles with which to play, toddlers will likely leave all the other buckles in their environment alone. At three years, children will have both the physical strength and the problem solving skills to buckle and unbuckle which will keep them busy for hours and add another year of meaningful play while they continue to use their lovable BuckleyBoo pal in their imaginative play.

The BuckleyBoo line includes a variety of animal characters including BuckleyCat, BuckleyBunny and BuckleyMonkey, among others.  The line includes three-buckle and five-buckle versions. The BuckleyMobile includes four removable Click Buddies, which are both finger puppets and rattles that buckle into a cloud canopy and can be clipped onto a stroller for the toddler on the go.

All BuckleyBoo products are available at www.buckleyboo.com and retail for $20-$30 (depending on size) and $50 for the crib toys.

Toddlers are fascinated with buckles, often bypassing a “developmental” toy to play with the buckles on their diaper bag or highchair.  Emily Ross and her mother, a child psychologist, observed this fascination with buckles and created BuckleyBoo, a collection of stuffed toys and crib accessories that encourage cognitive and motor development while appealing to toddlers with a bevy of buckles! BuckleyBoo toys encourage cognitive development through multi-stage learning.  Starting at 15 months, a child embarks on a developmental journey where each mastered task serves as a springboard for the next level of learning.