There have been some weird things going on in our heads while we sleep around here. For the last few days, Eden has been waking up and getting in bed with us, something that she has never done in all her four years. She has always been afraid of the dark, but we let her keep her closet light on, and she falls asleep fast, so she is okay with that. But she has been waking up with bad dreams this week. She is a funny one. She's not afraid of strangers or getting hurt or things kids are normally afraid of, but she is TERRIFIED of large, fluffy, animal characters the likes of Mickey Mouse, the Chick-Fil-A cow, and the prairie dog from the kids club at the mall. She goes absolutely ballistic every time she sees a big character or if we even talk about one. I wonder if that's why she's waking up scared.
The other day, Tibi and I took the kids to the mall for the kids club and she would not stop clinging to Tibi and looking around trying to locate the huge scary prairie dog. She was crying and screaming and it was horrible. The last time I took her there, the Chick-Fil-A cow was out in front of its restaurant, and she wouldn't even cross its path, she was so scared. I had to go back and pick her up and carry her across because she wouldn't walk.
Last night we went out for dinner, and there was a Hooters restaurant near the one we went to. The whole time we were eating, Eden kept mentioning "The Owl" that was going to come out and scare her. We had no idea what she was referring to, but Tibi and Peter had some fun teasing her until she was going crazy again. I swear, Peter wouldn't tease her if she was coming into HIS side of the bed every night.
When we went to get in the car, Peter held her and walked across the parking lot a little to explain that the sign on the wall of Hooters was just a picture and that it wasn't a real owl. She wasn't convinced. We let her and Jonah stay up last night and watch Wipeout with us to get her to forget about the scary owl on the side of the building. That reminds me of a funny story...
Yesterday we went to Meet the Teacher night for Eden's preschool. She has Miss Amy this year, Jonah's teacher from last year. She is so excited and I know she'll learn a lot this year. Anyway, while we were walking down the hall, I was holding Levi's hand and he tripped over his feet and fell on his face. Jonah was walking behind us and he started cracking up and pointing at Levi. You probably had to be there, but Tibi and I were laughing so hard at Jonah's reaction. I told Jonah he was so funny, then he said, "I'm not funny, Levi's funny. He fell down!" Jonah is starting to see a lot of humor around him. I love hearing him burst into genuine laughter- now I just need to teach him not to laugh AT people.
Anyway, back to dreams. Jonah has had a few nightmares this last week, but they are nothing like his night terrors used to be. He comes in and I get him a drink and put him back in bed.
I have been having crazy dreams and one night I even had one that had my crying when I woke up. It was really vivid and seemed real. I was trying to protect a few people from this snake that killed, and I couldn't protect everyone. So I chose to sacrifice Levi and only after the snake bit him and he was dying did I realize what I had just done. I was cradling him in my arms and crying and saying his name... then I woke up crying. It was horrible. I went straight into Levi's room and checked on him and hugged him tight (I love that my kids are heavy sleepers), then I went downstairs and noticed that the light was on and that Jonah was awake, playing down there. He saw that I was crying and asked why and I told him that I had a bad dream. He was really cute and sweet to me. He asked me what it was about and I said that Levi got hurt. (Didn't want to mention his death.) He said, "Well, what was scary? Was Levi a giant?" I laughed a little at that. Getting hurt is nowhere near as scary as a giant to kids, huh? We talked a little more and Jonah told me I could stay downstairs with him. But I eventually went back upstairs and fell back asleep pretty quickly.
Anyway, I have been having some really crazy ones lately. I think I prefer not remembering my dreams when I wake up!
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I have had a couple dreams in my lifetime where I wake up crying cause it has been something really horrible like that. Jonah's so sweet...and I would laugh to when Levi tripped. I laugh at my own kids when they do something like that (if they don't really get hurt).
Poor Eden, but I don't blame her, I could see how they could be scary, does she do that at Monster Bumpin'? She probably would not like Barney ha ha.
Wipeout is pretty funny. I catch it sometimes waiting for other shows and stuff. Or I'll use it as a default. Anyway, it's not as good as Xtreme MXC or whatever that show is but still. Hey remember when I heard American Gladiators was coming back? I wonder where it is...
See you tomorrow.
Ha good post :) Oh my gosh! Jonah laughing at Levi like that- funniest thing of my life! haha!
Those are funny. Grady didn't like Dewper the Prairie dog either. As soon as we would walk up he would tell me, "I cry, I cry" but he never cried. Well, maybe a little. I've had the worst/saddest dreams ever. Must be something in the water... ha ha! Woke up crying this morning. I had an intruder, guns, not pretty. Hope you and your kids sleep better tonight.
I've always had weird dreams...but lately I have continual flashbacks of various different parts of different dreams. They're as vivid as real things happening in my life. If I was a psychologist I would have a hay-day with that - not quite sure what that means.
Poor Eden. Sound like Disneyland isn't the place to vacation for a few years.
Maybe do some animal crafts with her with construction paper. You can make an owl with her. This was she could feel in control of the situation and can tear it up when it's over.
That Jonah is a nut! And so compassionate....Poor Levi, I NEVER laugh when someone falls down, I'm always afraid they have gotten hurt. I guess I'm a wimp. And hopefully, you won't have too many of those awful dreams about your kids any more.
Sad about the dreams and big scary animals. Funny post though. Can't wait to see you guys.
ugh...I had a dream the other night, similar to yours. It didn't involve a killing snake, but it did involve a huge volcano and me trying to locate all of my family. I wasn't able to find everybody and was frantically searching for them while trying to out run the blast from the volcano. I woke up with such an awful feeling. At least you had Jonah there to comfort you and tel lyou everything would be alright :)
I hate bad dreams. I'm totally with you on wishing I couldn't remember them. Even the "normal" ones sometimes trip me out. (Like, why in the world would I dream something like that?!?!?) Does Jonah usually wake up and play like that? That's got to be enough to make a mom crazy sometimes! Sorry Eden is so afraid of large characters. I think most kids have some crazy thing that they are afraid of for a while... and eventually they grow out of it. Good luck.
ooh I had a dream very similar to what Camie described a few years ago. Except there was no Volcano but we were on hill tops, really cliffs waiting for hovercrafts to come and go, always riding to a new cliff just in hopes of finding family members,...everyone just kept moving around and we could never get together...it really sucked, the feeling.
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