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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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littleduckie · 21/01/2013 19:59

ohhhh think i found it then. the cross over bit looks like the back of a duck.

MrsReiver · 21/01/2013 19:59

Is that maybe because that's where the two ducks meet?

fcr1980 · 21/01/2013 19:59

postimage.org/image/ewfrqazql/dc65dd5d/

ICBINEG · 21/01/2013 19:58

gah...I am clearly utterly lacking in imagination!

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ICBINEG · 21/01/2013 19:57

mrsR that looks promising...although she always points directly at the cross over point...

who said 5 ducks?!?!? They are breeding Shock

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SoldierKatnissEverdeen · 21/01/2013 19:55

Lol at the thought of you never seeing the duck and wasting many an hour looking for the duck. Even when dd has flown the nest in 18 yrs time. (See what I did there?)

Ps I can see it too. Your dd will be an artist!

MrsReiver · 21/01/2013 19:55

Sigh, paint fail and now link fail.

Try again postimage.org/image/5t8ggxpil/

GrimmaTheNome · 21/01/2013 19:55

Have we stumbled on the successor to Where's Wally? Grin

ICBINEG · 21/01/2013 19:54

wow nice art work !

....well that might explain why so much of it is hiding.....

hmm I could ask if there are any dogs too....

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MrsReiver · 21/01/2013 19:53

Ignore the random red oval - no idea where that came from...

postimage.org/image/5t8ggxpil/

Pascha · 21/01/2013 19:53

Now I see 5 ducks or parts of ducks. I think your DS is very perceptive.

littleduckie · 21/01/2013 19:50

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any better?

GrimmaTheNome · 21/01/2013 19:48

Well, I can't see ducks either.

I see the rear ends of two dachshunds, butt to butt.

ICBINEG · 21/01/2013 19:48

Hang on a mo...now we have two different duck sightings pointing in different directions? Confused

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littleduckie · 21/01/2013 19:48

ha no nickname was not changed for this thread!

I actually see it the way you see it Tee as well - pecking the pillows.

BillOddiesBeard · 21/01/2013 19:47

Ooh that is a lovely bed, would you mind telling me where it is from?

ICBINEG · 21/01/2013 19:47

littleduckie what is that meant to be?? I do appreciate the effort but it ust looks like two red lines to me.....

I am no longer certain if I am more afraid of not finding the duck or that I might look and actually see it....

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littleduckie · 21/01/2013 19:47

by the way its a very nice nest bed!

Tee2072 · 21/01/2013 19:47

Yes, I can kind of see it that way, Littleduckie (coincidence?) but I really see it with bills pointing downwards!

FrustratedSycamoresRocks · 21/01/2013 19:45

Yes! Big duck head, bill open, facing out wards!
The mid main crossover bit is where the eye is. Loop over too is top of head. Parallel horizontal lines are too of bill.

Ask her to feed the duck.

ICBINEG · 21/01/2013 19:43

We have not sung about ducks up there....and she hasn't ever dropped a duck down the back of the bed (which was a possibility that hadn't occurred to me but which DH had tried with her).

DH also tried asking how she could tell it was a duck if she couldn't see it. I will leave you to guess what happened next....

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littleduckie · 21/01/2013 19:43

imageshack.us/photo/my-images/203/duckg.png/

See?

Tee2072 · 21/01/2013 19:42

Exactly, Badger. Totally ducks pecking the pillows.

Tee2072 · 21/01/2013 19:42

It's in the footboard too.

ICBINEG · 21/01/2013 19:41

you lot are crazier than DD...

Okay so I will try the following two questions tomorrow:

  1. How many ducks are there (actually this is a bad plan because she can't count bless her....and will certainly cause screaming rage).
  2. Where are the ducks eyes? (this might work actually work!)
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