Last night Husband was giving LM her bath and all was well as she played with her rubber ducky. Eventually the rubber ducky (which she had been chewing on) floated close enough to Huband's head that he pretended try and grab it with his mouth which amused LM to no end. Wanting to entertain LM further Husband sucked the ducky's head into his mouth and pretended to eat it. Never before have I heard a baby scream out of sheer terror. Frustration - yes, pain - yes, but true horror....no.
LM let out the most ear piercing, blood-curdling scream I have ever heard and then proceeded to cry uncontrollably. Snatched her out of the bath trying to console her while laughing. Husband looking confused proceeded to almost piss himself laughing and LM just kept going back and forth between hugging my neck and looking back to see the carnage that was her deceased rubber ducky.
Later after she was dried off and we had stopped peeing our pants, we were trying to figure out the psychology behind LM's reaction. The only way to figure this out, we decided, was to recreate the scenario outside of the bath. So, because we are awesome parents, Husband set off to the bathroom for the ducky so that we could attempt to traumatize our infant yet again.
And what do you know.....it worked. We felt a little bad about it later, but not bad enough to wish we had gotten it on tape. Would be just horrible people if we did it again in order to record it? Probably. Will that stop us? Probably not.
