new night light

The monster-in-my-room thing is totally getting out of hand. Today we took Dennis to Wal-Mart and let him 'help' us choose a night light. We found something called a Tyke Light Jr., which looks like a little blob person with arms and a head (no features) and glows a soft green. It's battery powered and LED, and it cuts itself off after 15 minutes. Dennis is very proud of it. He shined it under the bed when he first got hold of it, announcing "there's no monsters under here" and then "monsters can't scare me!". Totally worth $10 even though he played with it for an hour after we put him to bed and we heard it thunking the walls and his night stand and heard him talking and singing to it. David said we'd just bought him a light-up toy! True. He does also have a Thomas the Train flashlight from Santa, but it makes train sounds if it moves and I know he's rolled over onto it and it woke him up. This light is at least quiet. He made me tell his night light goodnight tonight. Monsters beware--Tyke Light is on the job.