I worried about serious post-Christmas letdown, but Dennis seemed okay today. I was kind of blue myself, but he was just fine. He watched his new Bob the Builder and Thomas the Train Christmas movies and he took dozens of pictures with his new camera. He played fire station and rocket all day. He plugged in the Christmas trees all by himself (scary). And he was pretty sweet most of the day. We put puzzles together and played Uno Moo once Daddy got home from work. It was quiet and nice and very cold. I snuggled under blankets most of the day. I napped when Dennis did. Tonight he gave us trouble going to bed, lots of trouble, and when I asked him what was wrong, he said "I scared of monsters". I took his new Thomas flashlight and shined it around the room and showed him that there were no monsters. Then he told me he couldn't sleep because there were no monsters. He likes monsters. We had to put him back in bed several times. I hope it's just post Christmas stuff that's causing his difficulty.
Guilt trip today: he saw me eating a peanut butter cookie and said "Mommy, are you eating Santa's cookies?". I explained that the cookie was from the batch we made Santa, but Santa had eaten plenty of cookies and so we were allowed to eat what was left. He said "stop eating that cookie--it's for Santa". I offered him some cookie, but that didn't work either, so I quickly shoved the rest of the cookie in my mouth and apologized to him. He said to me today very sweetly "Don't you want to play with me, Mommy?". And then he gave me the face, the big-eyed, sweet, head-tilted-slightly-to-the-side, super cute look. It worked. I played with him all afternoon.
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