(this is totally correct that it's fun to put images on your own make your own tracks but that if you get too into it it'll take forever and you definitely don't have to)
if you start with a yoto i'd be sure to start with a couple of the cards they make rather than the make your owns, because you'll want them to have the pictures on the cards and the little pictograms on the lil screen to associate with specific audio they want to select
HOWEVER, if you can get a relative to buy you a toniebox, i would probably do that first and then switch to the yoto i bought myself around age 4 or 5. you will probably get faster, more enthusiastic uptake of both of them. tonie's figurines are so appealing, but then they teach kids to want audio
we introduced a yoto mini around 3.5, and if you're only going to get one, that's for sure the one i'd get. it absolutely grows with them for longer, and it can do everything a tonie can do, and a 3.5yo can definitely work a yoto mini.
my family’s Uh Oh dinner, passed down in lore from a thing my mother once said in exasperation while my father was out of town, is popcorn and applesauce
but I fear two weeks of popcorn and applesauce will have some undesirable effects
