the young ghost in my house

While I recover from a coronary, let me just say that I have a complaint about toymakers that does not include lead paint.

We used to have this "bike" (ride on little toy thing) that was made by the Sesame Street people. It was what Aidan had before his tricycle. Of course, like all children's toys, it made LOTS of noise. One of these fabulous noises was when you'd push a button shaped like Cookie Monster's head and it would say "ME SO HAPPY ME BLUE" in the loud guttural Cookie Monster voice.

After we had it for a while, I guess it started to short out or something. Whatever... But I would be, say, going to the bathroom in the pitch dark at two am and I would all of a sudden hear ME SO HAPPY ME BLUE. Thankfully, I was already going to the bathroom, so I didn't have to change my pants.

Then we got him a training potty chair. It's made so that when the kid potties, it's supposed to sense the weight of the pee or whatever and play a fairly loud little tune. He went to the potty, and it didn't make the noise, so I thought, Oh well, I got a defective one. Until, again, I was home with only the two kids on Tony's poker night, and they were both asleep, and I was relaxing in the bathtub and all of a sudden I hear a roaring musical fiesta going on at about 10000 decibels. Again, heart attack.

So just now I am sitting here checking my email, and suddenly, this little sit and spin Aidan has starts randomly playing this loud kiddie music. I don't think that's ever happened when we didn't push the button, and we've had that thing for over a year. SO either toy manufacturers need to fix their shorting out toys, or I've got the spirit of an obnoxious toddler in my house... which is just what I need, to add to the toddler I already have here spreading his obnoxiousness.