Wednesday, August 27, 2008

A Taste of Fear

It was about a year ago that Luke started getting scared at night of the (to us) funniest things. Now, it is Susanna's turn. She's crawled into bed with us the past two nights, and although Tony takes her back upstairs, she's in between us again by morning.

I asked her today what she is afraid of (she comes in our room because she's scared). Get this. She is scared of a little tiny round pink girl (picture her making a circle with her thumb and index finger) who has yellow or white hair...and is named Susi.

Tonight, as we went over how she is going to stay in HER bed tonight and if that little tiny round pink girl with the yellow hair named Susi comes to her bed again tonight, she is to tell her that it is HER bed and she must go somewhere else ("Luke will tell her, Mama."), as we went over how God is with her and will take care of her because He loves her very much, she informed me that the little tiny round pink girl with the yellow hair named Susi is even bigger than her, but she is very little.

Well, it makes sense in at least one mind in our house.

4 comments:

Martha said...

Well, did "Susi" show up last night? I've been curious. :)

LindaSue said...

oh! No, not for the last two nights....of course, it helps that Daddy's a soft touch and rubbed her back for awhile after tucking her in....and it helped reminding her that there are "consequences" for getting out of bed after being tucked in unless something from one's body is deposited in the toilet....

liz said...

For some reason "Susi" cracks me up. She's little, she's scary, she's kind of creepy. And if she were named the same as me....too psychologically difficult!

LindaSue said...

actually, my kids themselves are kinda scary and creep and incredibly funny! I wiped her eye last night, she had dirt in the inside corner, and she asked what I got out...I told her it was a black eye "booger" -- and she reminded me that they aren't always black, sometimes they're green, too. Ewwww!

Thankfully, "Susi" hasn't made an appearance lately. Luke's friend, "David," has however, but I've been assured he's been telling Luke to do only GOOD things!