Loved it!

I was shocked by how big it was when I first laid eyes on it, but for me it's a bonus that it's so big, squishy and soft. They absolutely love it and even I have to admit that it's super adorable. Part of the appeal is that it has so much to do and it can really grow with baby. When they are very small, you can watch them laugh and giggle as you activate the different settings. As they get older they can grab and squeeze it and even press the different parts themselves.

There's an astounding amount of noise functions. When you drop it, the elephant goes 'boiiiing', she crunches when you put a finger in her mouth, covering her eyes makes her 'whoo' or play 'peekaboo'. There's a velcro patch concealed bird at the back that you can touch or 'discover' to hear it tweet. Squeezing the trunk makes a 'honk' or sneeze noise. It's a lot and playing with these is enough to make a baby giggle again and again. Older toddlers love to manhandle him, hug him and find the different noise zones, even mimicking the elephant by playing Peekaboo with him.

Apart from that he's soft, with lots of different textures, patterns and colours that you can use to teach pattern recognition and vocabulary. I was really blown away by how cleverly designed it was and the amount of things to do and learn, as well as the cute design.

The only thing I can find as a negative is that it's not washable, which with kids is always kind of a pain. You can wipe it over with a damp cloth, but unfortunately do to all the electric parts and sound sensors, there's no way it could be washed.

It even comes with demo batteries included. I'm really thrilled with this and will buy another for a gift next time somebody has a baby.