The Shadow Monster

Last night while I was glued to the couch watching the fabulous, "Grey's Anatomy" season finale Leo jumped up from the couch when "Pink" started calling for Daddy. He went in her room and there was a monster in her room. She kept insisting the monster was scary and she was pointing to her wall and behind her bed.

Leo looked around and could not figure out what she was talking about until she moved and the monster moved with her. She pointed to the wall and said, "Scary Monster." Any guesses on what the monster was? Yep, you got it, the monster was "Pinks" shadow.

Leo tried to explain to our two-year old what a shadow was and he even showed her Daddy's shadow. Pretty hard to explain the whole shadow concept, right? When he left her room he felt like she got it because she allowed the shadow to stay in her room and she went to sleep peacefully.

The first thing she says to him this morning when he went to wake her up was, "the shadow is under the bed." I believe he tried to re-explain it and she just started crying. I think you can chalk that up to not wanting to get up and get going, who can blame her, right? He finally got her in the potty, dressed and in to the living room to watch "Oso."

I walked in and said, "Good Morning!" She says, "Hi, Mommy, you want to go see my shadow?" Ha, bless her heart. She started running back to her room telling me to, "come on." She thinks she can only see it in her room and it lives there. I showed her our shadows on the wood floor, we went in my bathroom and saw it on the walls, and then in the kitchen on the stainless steel appliances. I am hoping she is getting it now.

I will let you know how it goes when we get home. I have a feeling the first thing she will do when we walk in the house is run to her room to see if her shadow is behind or under her bed. God love her!

Have a great weekend, Toodles!