9 days: batteries for the animatronics

It's not a collection we kept up, but a number of years ago we got our first Christmas animatronic when Hallmark came out with a snowman and dog pair that sang and barked Jingle Bells. With a house full of dogs it was too tempting to leave behind, and the loved it as much as we'd hoped. Diamond used to howl along with the "singing dog" every year. A friend gave me the signing, dancing Eeyore, and we picked up the penguins a few years back as well. Thankfully the collection stops there, but now that there is another child in the house they get an awful lot of love every year.