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

[ICBINEG]

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 .

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!

[EugenesAxe]

Oh please please please... I am a sad cow, but please re-read my post. I think what you have described is what I was trying to convey!

Thank you for the entertainment :)

[OneHundredSecondsofSolitude]

Fck me beehatch. Your duck is like a nightmare I once had where there were all these birds half in and half out and bits sticking out of the plastered sloping ceiling of an attic I was in [shudder]

[BIWI]

[MrsReiver]

DH relinquished the laptop and I think Eugene is right!

Is this what you think DD is seeing?

postimage.org/image/aykovnfkj/

[MikeOxardInTheSnow]

Amazing! Can this go in classics?

[Beehatch]

I'm seeing carrots....

Don't tell ICBINEG's DD - she probably doesn't have a sign for carrot yet!

[OPeaches]

Hahahahahahaaa, just read this whe thread, it MUST go in classics.

[BluelightsAndSirens]

I've just found this thread so glad it has been resolved.

I think you should post a link of the curtains to give us a head start!

[TomDudgeon]

Yes that is a carrot!


I'm glad you have it sorted and presumably dd is happier than her silly mummy and daddy can see the obvious

[TheWombat]

This is a lovely thread! What a clever DD you have. Is she scared of the duck? Perhaps duck could leave her a little 'present' (choc buttons or crayons?) under the pillow, in the hope of making friends...

[MrsReiver]

Do we know what the sign is for Carrot Duck???

[2Tired2GiveaShit]

I can only see an owl... Apart from the fantastically doctered bed shots which ammused the shit out of me and OH.

Don't kids have fab imaginations?

[Dumdeedumdeedum]

Awwwww I love a happy ending! I'm waiting for the follow up curtains thread now :D

[PommePoire]

Brilliant news! So glad your clever DDs frustration has been answered! So, she can see a hungry duck bobbing for food - a duck's arse, fancy! No wonder we clean minded ladies of MN didn't think of that Now, what could it be in the curtains...

[FeijoaVodkaAndCheezels]

excellent excellent resolution. What a brilliant little girl you have! (though I still see ruddy Daffy Duck rather than a dabbling duck)

[EugenesAxe]

Thanks MrsReiver! Just the peach area though; not the green bit.

As in this image.

[ICBINEG]

Eugene, Bertie

Yes I must confess both of you seem to have given the correct answer with hindsight. I did read both posts at the time but couldn't join the dots until the penny dropped IYKWIM.

MrsR I think it is just the brown bit....like a lady duck upside down bobbing for food....

DD does not have a sign for carrot as such although she signs 'snowman' by miming a long orange nose (when she does this I tend to say carrot nose snowman) so I reckon if she did want to communicate carrot she would do snowman and then point to her nose. This I would not have understood...but now I am mentally prepared for carrot ducks!!

just before xmas she managed to convey through mime that once you slice a pear it looks like a fish...at least I think that is what it was...she stopped banging on about it once I said that...

TBH my life seems to involve being trapped in one long game of charades!

Why oh why doesn't she just start speaking?

[ICBINEG]

yy eugene!

[EugenesAxe]

On a side note, her imagination sounds awesome OP. I love the idea of pear fish. Reminds me of my DDad carving a fish shape from his carrot (funnily enough) one dinner time, and then wobbling it from the fish tank next to his chair, into his mouth. My poor little sister was and in tears; I'm ashamed to admit the rest of us were in hysterics.

[Tee2072]

I have nominated this thread for Classics with HQ. Hopefully it will get in there!

[KateSMumsnet]

Must admit I've been following this thread with great interest, SO glad you figured it out!

We're shortly going to move this thread to its rightful place in Classics.

[Tee2072]

Whoot! Thanks Kate!

[ICBINEG]

aww

[FrustratedSycamoresRocks]

Thank you kate

[GrimmaTheNome]

Why oh why doesn't she just start speaking?

Because she's having far too much fun playing charades signing!