She is still a few months too young to play with it yet so I put it away in her room for now. Up high on top of a cabinet. Where nobody, not dog nor human could reach it.
It's pretty cute, huh?
Yeah, I thought it was cute too - until 4 am yesterday when I woke up to it singing in Ruby's room. In the dark. All by itself.
See those cute, innocent eyes? Well they seem to take on a demonic stare at 4am. Suddenly not so cute anymore.
And it's voice. In daylight it's a cute, fun, child's voice. In the night it sounds like Satan mimicking a child.
And see that heart on it's chest? Well it lights up. It was just a little more than creepy to peer into Ruby's room to see that red heart glowing away while the toy sings about how much it loves me, in that voice... Hey, I don't care how much that fucking thing loves me. I don't want to hear about it at 4am.
To make matters worse? I tried to take the batteries out of it the next morning. (In the daylight after I had laid awake in bed all night staring at my bedroom door waiting for it to walk in with a butcher knife in it's hand.) And as soon as I touched it, it went berserk! It started singing one song, then cut into another, then it told me it loved me again, then it told me I was touching it's yellow foot... I'm pretty sure it tried to squirm out of my hands too. Then I realized that it requires a screwdriver to take the batteries out. How "convenient" for the toy that I did not have one handy.
Could I be be over reacting? Maybe the sleep deprivation is taking it toll on me, making me more concerned about this than I should be. But then again I think we all remember another certain toy that started doing things spontaneously, and we all remember how that turned out:
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Ahhhh---those puppies are TOTALLY posessed! I damn near spit out my cracker when I saw the picture. Check out a blog entry from Oct 07: http://noswimmers.blogspot.com/2007/10/is-he-mocking-me.html
The little shit didn't light up or start singing to me, thank god--I would have FREAKED out.
Now, if it starts singing to you when the batteries are out, I say burn it!!
Noswimmers!!! HA! I just read your Oct.07 post - So it's NOT just me over reacting. They ARE creepy!
Wow. Throw it in a dumpster... a faraway dumpster.
I thought about getting that for Baby M a few months back - glad I didn't!
That thing is evil! A friend of mine had one, and I swore never to get one. I can't take the voice, and from what I hear, all Fisher Price products have the same voice. Sigh.
omfg! carter got that toy for xmas!!
LMFAO. We have that same dog - in fact it's peeping at me right now over the side of the little canvas bin I have in our living room for collecting Owen's various crap.
The same thing happened to me. It was on the couch and I was enjoying some downtime and all of a sudden it laughed and told me it loved me. Then it did it again, claiming, "That tickles." Freak!It's done that several times. I have not, however, seen it in action in the dark, so I didn't know the heart glowed.
Maybe he'll take a trip Goodwill this week.
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