I wish that warning was attached to the "Bigfoot the Monster" robotic toy at Target. If it was we might have been able to spare Ava a very traumatic experience. A few months ago while at Target we came across this toy and thought Ava might enjoy to see it in action. Well that was a BIG mistake. At first she just looked a little nervous, but then Bigfoot hit his fists against the plastic and Ava lost it. She started screaming and crying like I'd never seen before. It was terrible and took us several minutes to calm her down. We realized at that time Ava doesn't like talking toys and definitely does not like "Bigfoot the Monster". We decided we would have to be careful to avoid this toy on our future trips to Target.Unfortunately that is not the end of the traumatic story. A couple weeks ago Ava and I were alone at Target and cruising around. Ava was happy walking and not really paying attention to anything in particular. As we approached the Bigfoot toy I strategically and casually placed myself inbetween it and Ava. She wasn't even looking in that direction so I decided not to make a big deal about it and just figured we would walk right by. Well, I was wrong. Right as we passed the toy Ava glanced over and just lost it. She became paralyzed with fear and started hysterically crying. A few people in the area looked at me like I was crazy as I explained it was the dumb Bigfoot's fault. I picked Ava up and tried to comfort her as I quickly walked away. Again it took several minutes to calm her. I then decided I hate Bigfoot and we would have to be very careful on all our future trips to Target.
Ava was not harmed in the shooting of this video.
Rich shot it alone while Ava was safely with me.
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We had the same experience at Target with Avery. He's absolutely terrified of it!! I've never seen him so frightened or traumatized by anything before. We have to avoid it now, too. Perhaps it means we've both done a good job of sheltering our little ones from scary things in life up to this point.
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