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Please help me find the invisible duck before I go mad...

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ICBINEG · 21/01/2013 19:30

Every night for the last two weeks my DD (19mo) has been raging because I can't see an apparently invisible duck.

She stands next to the head board of the bed (shown here ) and makes all manner of quacking noises and signs duck. I should explain that she doesn't do much talking, only animal noises and signing so far Hmm.

If I say "is there a duck?"

She points to the main cross over point in the centre.

If I say "where is the duck?"

She covers her eyes - which usually means hiding, or peekaboo, or the object I am talking about is partially obscured.

If I say "is the duck hiding?" She signs hiding again and looks all expectant.

I have not yet found anything to say after this point that does not result in a screaming fit of rage. Including silence.

If I deviate from the above script in any way she has a screaming fit of rage.

I am starting to feel like I am trapped in a 80's text adventure, the only outcome of which is a screaming toddler...

Please help me find the duck!

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MrsReiver · 21/01/2013 22:34

I can see that Feijoa but it looks like ALittle's owl to me Grin

NoTea Right Click and save the image, open it in paint (or similar) and doodle to your heart's content!

FeijoaVodkaAndCheezels · 21/01/2013 22:27

Daffy Duck, not daddy!

FeijoaVodkaAndCheezels · 21/01/2013 22:26

You are all wrong!

Think about Daddy Duck, only with long flowing eyebrows. The top of his head is what she can see. On the end board there are mad swirling loony toons eyes, but they are covered by the pillows on the head board.

blackeyedsusan · 21/01/2013 22:24

op i feel your pain. we had a seagull and/or parrot up there... terrifying him nd making him scream... could I find it? ... I think I haave identified it as a shadow on the ceiling and a nick out of the woodchip thta forms the eye. he was begging me to put the hole in the recycling yesterday...

I see the seagull like duck and berties duck... the est are pretty good too but needed pointing out.

NoTeaForMe · 21/01/2013 22:14

I think the duck she sees is looking down, so when she tells you it's hiding she either can't see it's whole face or she thinks the duck is looking for something that's hiding!

I hope she can explain a bit clearer tomorrow, I wonder which duck is the closest to what she sees!

By the way, how are you all drawing on the photo?!?!

TomDudgeon · 21/01/2013 22:10

To show not oral
Its Monday

TomDudgeon · 21/01/2013 22:09

Hah
I can see another duck!
Grin
Now tow oral out how to show you as an on phone

TomDudgeon · 21/01/2013 22:06

I saw the owl first two. The top half of one

I'm trying to did another duck to
Throw into the mix Grin

DoItRight · 21/01/2013 21:55

Possibly the best thread I've seen on mumsnet Grin
The first duck pic made me GrinGrinGrin

pollywollywoowah · 21/01/2013 21:48

This thread is hilarious. But op I feel your pain.

I can't see any ducks.

ALittleScatterOfRain · 21/01/2013 21:44

I can see all those ducks, but the first thing I saw was an owl!

(With the ducks pecking the pillow as eyebrows instead, the triangle in the middle is a beak and the bits under the 'bends' of the ducks' necks as the eyes.)

50ShadesofXmas · 21/01/2013 21:38

I think fcr1980 has it, that's all I can see anyway.

tapdancingmum · 21/01/2013 21:36

I'm sorry to throw a spanner into the works but all I saw was a fish!!!

dinkystinky · 21/01/2013 21:35

Why don't you sing 5 little ducks went swimming one day and at the end shoo the waiting duck out to its mummy?

Either that or invest in an invisible deerstalker hat and shotgun....

EugenesAxe · 21/01/2013 21:34

Hold the phone! Got inspiration from a comment - what if she's seeing a ducks arse like you see when they've bobbed down to feed, and she's trying to talk to you about it feeding or something?

The section under the cross is the duck bottom.

NippyDrips · 21/01/2013 21:34

Can anyone zoom in a bit on the center curved triangle bit? I can see an Orange upside-down triangle beak touching the black pillow and a round blue/grey eye touching the two corners or the triangle. Hope I am not imagining it!

Is that your actual took though?

MrsReiver · 21/01/2013 21:33

I'm saving all the pics to put in one PDF (because DH is playing the xbox and I need to kill time until Revenge starts) and I now have a folder on my desktop called "bedframe ducks"

I really need to take up a hobby or something....

HoneyDragon · 21/01/2013 21:32

This thread has gone quackers

Tee2072 · 21/01/2013 21:31

Grin Foggles

Foggles · 21/01/2013 21:29

I think I see it !!!!!!!!!!!

MrsReiver · 21/01/2013 21:28

Put all the pictures in a single document and show it to her, and say "which duck is it?"

NippyDrips · 21/01/2013 21:27

I think you may need to buy a new bed.

I saw the two ducks pecking the pillow and on the first pic the very centre part looked like a ducks face on the wall behind it but I am looking on my phone so not very reliable.

MrsReiver · 21/01/2013 21:25

Ooh I don't like BeeHatch's duck, it's quite scary and inevitably the only duck I can see whenever I look at the bed frame now!

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ICBINEG · 21/01/2013 21:23

I REALLY hope this makes quote of the day

can you explain your duck a bit more? Is the only one I can't see

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ICBINEG · 21/01/2013 21:22

Bertie WTAF?!? and how the hell did you do that drawing?

Oh god there are so many ideas....I am so aware that I only get one shot in the morning before the rage sets in...at that DH will be furious because we usually on get phantom ducks at bedtime and not in the morning....

Argh argh the pressure!

Okay people what do I ask?

At most I get one question and one follow up....

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