The inventor's of Baby Mobile's have, via disgustingly complicated equations and nightmare inducing experiments on cute fluffy animals, discovered exactly how much music it takes to send a teeny, tiny, little human directly to slumber land. They have used this information to ensure that EVERY single mobile/wind up musical ornament stops exactly 10 seconds before this happens. Try as you may - there is NO way to wind these damn things up any further. If you succeed in winding them further than intended they usually cease to make any sound at all.
The little Diva, had until recently been terrified of the two wind up mobiles on her shelf. The music would start - she'd seem happy and then the little bottom lip would start to quiver and all out sobbing would commence. The only way to calm her down would be to get her as FAR from the offending musical gadget as possibly... that or hide out in the washroom with the extractor fan going!
Anywho - a few weeks passed and she kept bugging me to play with her music box. I thought, "What they heck lets try this again". It turned out she'd got over her irrational fear of the plinking music and was finally a FAN! The only problem was that she wanted me to wind up said musical gadgets to lull her off to sleep.
It takes a minimum of three wind-ups to get her to sleep. I'll be rocking her - she'll be heavy - I'll be convinced that "She's REALLY sleeping this time" and the music will stop. Her eyes flick open, she points and says "Shhhtop". I wind up the toy. Re-adjust the Diva and we do it all again.
Those of you thinking, "Well why don't you just keep humming the music when it stops?" Let me tell you how well this works: NOT AT ALL! I mean I know I don't have the greatest singing voice, but come on even I can hum. It DOES NOT WORK.
I can hear you in the back there - muttering to yourself, "Why don't you just quickly wind the toy before it stops - I'm sure she will stay asleep". This DOES NOT work either. Do you want to know why? BECAUSE the sadistic toy inventors have made it IMPOSSIBLE to quietly wind these things. It CAN NOT be done!
So yes - I'm currently contemplating recording the music box's sound and playing it on a loop. I'm sure however that the Little Diva won't be fooled. The freaking toy needs to move too!!
(Honestly though I do enjoy my snuggle time with The Little Diva - I just sometimes (after the 4th or 5th wind) wish that the toys could wind up just that much longer!!)
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