Demon Camel

My brother in law is in Iraq for the third time, and my niece is having a hard time understanding why daddy isn’t here.  She is two and went through a phase of about two months were she was mad at him and my sister because daddy wasn’t home every night like he was supposed to be.

Then my brother in law got a cell phone in Iraq and my sister got a calling card, which made it much easier for my sister to be able to communicate with him.  My niece talked to him on the phone for the first time since he has been gone, which thrilled both my sister and her husband, and she sent her daddy one of her stuffed Ernies (a VERY big deal for her, since she and the two Ernies had to go EVERYWHERE together).

So, when the box from Iraq arrived from her daddy today, she was thrilled.  My sister opened it up and inside was a cute little stuffed camel.

Or so we thought.

There is a little zipper in the front and when you unzip it, you find a place to put a battery.  So my sister stuck one in.

Now, keep in mind, my niece HATES all things that make noise or move by battery.  She wants her stuffed animals to move by people power only and to NOT talk or sing back to her.

So imagine the scene when the cute cuddly camel turned into the DEMON CAMEL FROM HELL complete with flashing RED light up eyes and a sound track that sounds like the music from a torture scene.  (Honestly, I think if it hadn’t made her cry I would have liked the music, it had some guy singing in Arabic and had the feel of The Arabian Nights to it.  It was just add that with a camel with demonic flashing red eyes and a screaming two year old and you get Demon Camel).

Needless to say, the batteries came out and will not be put back in.  When my brother in law called and my sister asked him if he knew that the camel did that, he was surprised.  And now my niece is showing her camel to everyone.

But deep down, all of us adults know that it is just a matter of time before the DEMON CAMEL returns.  MWAHAHAHA…

~ by mexalapotis on August 11, 2008.