Comments on: The voice of play

By: Salome

Salome — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:36:48 +0000

Oh hey! I just noticed that Kymberli’s kids play with a green Seasame Street bong! I’m sure it keeps the kiddies mellow.
Way to go, Kymberli! You’ve got my vote for Mother of the Year!
J/K of course it’s a bongo… isn’t it?

By: Salome

Salome — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:31:16 +0000

My friend has a Mrs. Beasley doll that I thought was horribly freaky and WRONG. This is due in part to my friend being in her later 20s when she purchased the doll and decided to display it in a child-size rocking chair in her living room.
I never liked the original Mrs. Beasley very much. I mean, she was creepy, with those scary eyeglasses and those weird yellow shoes. WTF, man?
I suspect Mrs. Beasley started whispering to Anissa Jones (the girls who played Buffy on “Family Affair”), encouraging her to start taking massive amounts or drugs and eventually overdose and die, as in: “I know what’s fun! Lots and lots of quaaludes! And tequila!”
I wouldn’t put anything past Mrs. Beasley.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:00:28 +0000

Lots of toys that go crazy over here, we buy stock in the three major types of batteries to help.

2 of the worst dying batteries were: 1. This Laugh and Learn puppy that you press and it would sing or talk. The puppy started talking in the middle of the night so much we put it in the trash. It was terrifying. 2. The other toy is Kinsley’s little Busy Bee that she has in her crib. It is based off of sounds/movements – so any time she moves it will sing a soothing song to help her fall asleep. Well, when the batteries die the thing will go off all night long in a very slooow voice. Creapy!

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:02:52 +0000

Love your new header picture!

Oman has a scooter/walking toy that plays this really annoying techno-pop song and it is like finger nails on a chalk board-but of course he LOVES it. Figures.

He has a crawl-ball that I forget to turn off, and that rolls and plays music in the middle of the night–creeeepy!

By: Kymberli

Kymberli — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:57:20 +0000

OMG that was hilarious. “It puts the lotion on its skin.” Priceless. (Did you realize that the guy who played Wild Bill is now the police chief on Monk? That’s major weirdness because I still see him as the freak dancing around in a suit of woman skin.)

Yes, I have had a toy go crazy on me. My favorite of the kids’ toys is one that we’ve had since the twins were babies. It’s a green Sesame Street bong which lights up and plays all these spicy Latin rhythms a la Sesame Street style. I’ll be damned – I found one on eBay here: .

Anyway, if you press on the big Ernie button, you can hear him saying things like, “Feel the beat! Arriba, arriba!”

Imagine my surprise when I heard the Devil instead of Ernie growl, “MMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE TOOOOOOOOOOOOO THEEEEEEEEEEEE RHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!”

Kyra and Jaiden weren’t the only ones who needed a diaper change that morning.

By: Man-annie Oakley

Man-annie Oakley — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:12:33 +0000

I want to know what it says about your fan base that soooo many of us actually use the phrase “It puts the ________ in/on the _________” in our everyday lives? That is just a hysterical story. It seriously made my eyes tear up with laughing. Wil has a fart machine that some wonderful soul gave to him. A battery operated remote controlled noise box. It likes to go off completely randomly and seemingly when I am home alone it goes off the most. Every time I hear it and go on the hunt to dispose of it I can never find it. Hysterically funny post – I totally get the hair raises on the back of your neck from it too. Love you!!! And the creepy Elmo response freaked me out – i would have burned the damn thing!

By: geohde

geohde — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:08:47 +0000

I have had many toys go rogue.

Usually battery related, except this one time it was dribble/spew.

Guess that IS battery related, indirectly.

By: claire

claire — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:36:58 +0000

I used to work at a daycare and most of the time it was this clear cube that had different shaped holes on the side to put the blocks in, randomly went off but in a really demonic sound. Also an elmo usually just started talking randomly. creeepy.

By: Tanya

Tanya — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:18:15 +0000

for months, there was a ghost horse galloping and neighing sickly in my kid’s closet every time a door would open or shut or someone would walk into the matching upstairs room I COULD NOT FIND THE THING… it was on the top shelf under three blankets…
Then there was the demon bear that would cry peeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaahhahhhhhhhkkkkaaaaaaaaaahhhhhbooouuuuugggggghhhhhh
and then there’s the twenty0something cricket doll on the top shelf in the office… she has her own problems…