http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd_lg6w4UAwOur most recent issue at bedtime has been with Anna thinking that there are certain characters in her bed. Even the nice ones make her cry. Mostly it's a plea to stay up longer. Thankfully we've stood our ground. The first incident occurred about 2 weeks ago after the kids had watched "Over The Hedge" a really fun movie that Anna has seen before without issue. At the beginning of the movie there is a big black bear who is in conflict with the lead animal character (a raccoon or opossum, I can't remember). Anyway, I guess the bear is as close as the movie comes to having a villain. To be honest, it's so benign that I almost forgot it was even part of the movie. Anna, however did not forget on this particular occasion and either had a dream about it or thought it up herself. Suddenly, she didn't want to go to bed because of the black bear that was in her bed. Now, I'm not suggesting that it wouldn't be scary to a 2 year old (or anyone) to have a black bear in your bed.
So, with that in mind, we played along and convinced Anna that I would go up and tell the bear to go back to his home. This tactic actually worked. She was cured of the black bear scare. Though she did ask every day for a few days if the bear was back at his home. Of course the answer was always a resounding "yes!"
The saga gets funny and slightly aggravating with the next visitor. You guessed it; Snuffy! Lovable, big ol' Snuf. Just the other day Anna chose to watch a Sesame Street DVD during her breathing treatment. In this particular one, Snuffy loses his giant meatball as he sings the classic song, "On top of old smokey." Last night Anna cried that Snuffy was in her bed so in keeping with our original method, Eric went up and made a Snuffy sounding voice to let Anna know that Snuffy was headed back to Sesame Street. We had a repeat scenario tonight, only with an added twist. As soon as Anna showed relief that Snuffy was gone, Andrew added to the drama with his cry that he wanted to see Snuffy.
It was pretty unbelievable really. All we could do was laugh. And then distract everyone from the topic at hand. Poor Snuffy!
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