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So, today as I was putting Brianna in her sleepsack for a nap, she saw The Octopus. Most of you have seen The Octopus - it is a stuffed blue octopus by Baby Einstein that plays music when you squeeze or push on his head, and recites colors when you squeeze or push on the ends of his tentacles. Anyway, she saw The Octopus and HAD TO HAVE IT!! No biggie - it was not the first time, so I gave it to her and in the crib they both went. You might think this was a bad idea, but normally she plays with it for a few minutes and drifts happily off to sleep. Then as an added bonus, she has something to play with when she wakes up. Not this time. Today she played with The Octopus - repeatedly pushing on his head for over an hour, almost non-stop - she did not fuss even once. I got to listen to the same four octopus songs play over and over and over for about 70 minutes. By that time, I figured she was not going to sleep and that it was time for her to get up. You may find this hard to believe, but the music did not bother me. Truthfully, I spent the entire hour amused and amazed at her perseverance. All the same, no more musical toys in the crib!