Alarm Clock Exorcism

What makes this alarm clock so evil?

It's a funny story really.  My mom bought me this alarm clock to put in Chloe's room when she was first born, because the pediatrician had recommended that I feed Chloe for ten minutes on each breast.  Being a new mommy I, of course, took this advice as the gospel and insisted on watching the clock, switching at exactly ten minutes. 

The alarm clock has always been something of a pain in the ass, because the whole thing operates using only four buttons and the instructions might as well be in a different language - press mode six times, press function twice, then up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right B, A, Start just to set the time.  Chloe, some day I will explain to you that Nintendo reference.

As it turns out this alarm clock is one of Chloe's favorite toys.  She'll press the buttons and watch it light up for 15 minutes straight.  I rejoice in any object that entertains my daughter long enough to apply a whole face of makeup in the morning.  I was letting her play with it about a month ago in her bedroom when it somehow got pushed below her changing table.  Retrieving the tiny object would have required me lying flat on my stomach and reaching my arm under the table, which seemed like a waste of already rationed energy.  So I just left it there.  A mistake of epic proportions.

Now I mentioned in a previous post that Chloe woke up for one entire month religiously at 2:30 a.m.  You may already know where I'm going with this.  As I'm trying to write this I am shaking my head and laughing that irritated laugh where you can't believe you were so stupid... Yes, she had set the alarm to 2:30 a.m. and being that the alarm lasts for about 20 seconds and goes off only once, Paul and I were never lucky enough to hear the damn thing going off until four nights ago when I woke up and thought "what the heck is that noise?"  Sure enough, Chloe woke up within 20 seconds of the alarm going off. 

So three nights ago I removed the alarm from her bedroom, and for three nights the entire family has slept through the entire night.  Any day now I'm expecting the clock to rotate its head and spew pea soup.