The Sleep Sheep

I promise not to turn this site into robobaby just yet (though I am contemplating a spin-off site, which just might launch by Father's Day), but I simply can't resist sharing three baby gadgets I've been particularly taken with.

The first is the Sleep Sheep by Cloud b, an adorable plush "audio pacifier" that makes four "soothing sounds" to (allegedly) lull both babies and adults alike to sleep. I can't quite yet attest to it having any measurable effect in this regard, but... it's so cute, and it makes sounds! There's "Spring Showers", which sounds like rain. There's "Ocean Surf", which sounds like, um, ocean surf. There's "Mother's Heartbeat", which frankly sounds like Godzilla stomping through Tokyo. And then there's the reason I had to have this - "Whale Songs". I mean, what devious mind decided, "The Sleep Sheep won't make soothing sheep sounds, no - that'd be too obvious. It shall make whale sounds to screw with infants' brains by programming them to associate sheep with the sound of whales, and vice-versa!" So when I take Benjamin to a petting zoo someday, he'll be totally freaked out when the sheep sound like sheep, and not whales. And even more freaked out when he discovers whales sound like sheep! I love it. (It runs on two AA batteries, and is under $25 at Amazon.)