Jay si getting to the age of thinking that monsters are in his room. It has only happened a few times, but last night it happened again. I have come to the conclusion that everytime it has happened it is because of something he has seen on T.V. Last night, right before bed, Jay watched Spiderman 3. In Spiderman 3 there is the black Spiderman and when Topher Grace's character plays him he has fangs and claws. When I saw that scene come up I looked at Jason and said, "I hope this doesn't give him nightmares." I was so right!
Now, I never wanted to be the kind of mom that was crazy about what my children watched. For the most part, I really don't have to worry about it. Jay LOVES Nick Jr. and Disney. He loves Pixar movies, even though he does get scared with some of them, i.e., Pixar's short films, when Jack Jack from The Incredibles turns into a fireball, he doesn't like that too much!! But Jay has slowly moved into liking Spiderman, Superman, Wolverine, and so on. So, I tried to find cartoons with those characters in it and Jason lets him watch parts of the movies. He can't watch too much of the new Batman, with Heath Ledger as the joker, I even get scared with that!!!
So, at about 4 am, I hear him crying. I wake Jason up to go check on him and I can hear Jay telling him that there is a monster in his room. Jason showed him that there was no monster in his closet, or under his bed. I then heard him ask Jason if he could get in "Momma's bed." I melted!!! I jumped out of bed and was like, "of course baby!"
I am just hoping that it doesn't turn into an everynight thing!!
Chase did the exact same thing right after he turned 3. He kept saying there was a bear in his room. It got so bad he would scream at the top of his lungs when we tried to put him in bed. I got him some "bear spray" aka lysol. We would spray it in the closet, under the bed, and anywhere else the bear might show up at. It really helped him! He used it for about 6 months and then just quit one day! I'm sure they make monster spray too ;) maybe that would work for Jay. Congrats again on the baby!
ReplyDeleteHey! That's a great idea. We can get rid of monsters and germs at the same time!! Thanks again for the baby!!
ReplyDeleteSeems like Noah has some nightmares too last night! He woke up screaming bloody murder around 3AM. I didn't hear a thing (and we still use the monitor, I guess I was knocked out!). Maybe I should try the lysol thing as well! However, Noah seems to like monsters because he adores the monster maker application on my iphone!
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