The Wonderful Sounds of Toys!

I don't know about everyone else, but are you as tired as I am of the obnoxious noise making toys out there today? We have a LOT of toys in the house...my husband would like to say we have WAY to many, but we won't go there right now. (That would require me going through all of them, making piles of toys to give away to people we know with little kids and a pile of toys to give away to charity. Then I would have to actually take the stuff or call somewhere to get rid of it....entirely too much work just by thinking about it. I need to have a garage sale, but I just don't see that happening any time soon).

Anyway....there are a few toys that seem to have minds of their own around here. Our dear friend Judy, grandmother #3, gave the boys a little Fisher Price grill. It's so cute and the boys love it. It has wheels to push around, they can act like daddy does when he grills, it talks and the boys like to watch the crazy eyes blink and the mouth move. Well, let me tell you about my "parental" view of this grill. One morning (at 1:45 a.m.) as I was pleasantly sleeping, I was awakened by a strange noise. Now, I consider myself a slightly heavy sleeper. I guess b/c I'm pretty dead to the world after a long day of work and then dealing with everyone and everything once I get home...you know the routine. I couldn't for the life of me make out what it was I was hearing. I got out of bed (Steve was sacked out in bed and HE'S the light sleeper) and went into the playroom. Well, the batteries were dying in the grill so it's speech was slurring....the "grill" part was lit up with it's "red fire" .... It kept saying (in a very demonic voice)...."DOOOO YOOOUUUU WAAAANT MOOOORE MUUUSTTARRDDDD????" I couldn't and still can't find an on or off button for this damn toy. I had to throw it in the laundry room, shut the door and cover it up with a blanket. Problem #1 solved.


There is yet another toy that tends to drive us insane too. (It drives Steve more insane than myself to set the record straight.) The boys got a little ride-on toy for their 1st birthday from Granny. It has two buttons that play nursery rhymes...twinkle, twinkle little star and do you know the muffin man? Well, over time the muffin man button stopped working. It's been a well used toy and it's even been left outside over night and left outside in the rain. So needlesstosay, it's just as possessed as the grill when the batteries are getting old or it is drying out from being wet. There was one night when we were attempting to go to sleep and all of the sudden we heard "do you know the muffin man, the muffin man, the muffin man...do you know the muffin man who lives on drury (sp?) lane?" So I go and move it into the trusy-dusty laundry room thinking..."I can outsmart this toy." NO GOOD, it was echoing underneath the door and off of the tile floor. So outside it goes..... STILL NO GOOD. Our master bedroom has a window that overlooks our back patio...so it was almost IN STEREO for us now. So, I make a third trip to throw the stupid toy into my car, in the garage with the door closed. Thank goodness that fixed problem toy #2.

Now Steve heard it another night (I didn't hear a peep) and took matters into his own hands. When I woke up the next morning, I saw the car upside down on the couch, underneath all the couch pillows. I had to snicker just a bit.

One more item that I have been taunted by is one of the boys battery powered toothbrushes. This happened just this morning. I had just pushed snooze on my alarm...I was just waiting to get out of bed and I heard something. It was kind of just a humming sound. I really thought it was Steve using his electric razor. I turned to his side of the bed...nope, he was still asleep. So, I got up and went into my investigative mode. I ended up in the bathroom at their little Sesame Street toothbrushes. I guess the batteries are low in one of those too. I just turned it off and decided to get up early now that there was no more snoozing for me.


I get annoyed enough at these toys when they are in proper working order with fresh new batteries...how dare they interrupt my sleep when the batteries start to go down. So, to sum it up....I don't want "any more mustard, I don't know the muffin man, and I don't need to brush my teeth". Any questions?