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[becomingkate]

Sorry for the repeat post from the FFA, I apologize if you already saw this there. But I wanted to update for the people who were interested.

Nothing really new to report with my son. He's been doing pretty well at night. Only thing is now he complains of a stomach ache a lot. I took him in to the doctor and they could not find anything wrong. They told me to give him a little benefiber in his drinks and see if that helps.

We put giant Transformers decals on the blank wall next to his bed and he doesn't complain about seeing monsters anymore :) For Christmas my husband got him this really cool battery operated firefly in a jar that he keeps next to his bed. When you tap on it the firefly glows and moves around. I think that helps comfort him too.

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[jensi08.livejournal.com]

My daughter was sleepwalking the other night! It was a bit funny that she was having a bad dream about Angry Birds, but sleepwalking...mmmmmmm. Transformers! We love them. She has Bumblebee on her wall and a few toys. That is her robot. I took her to see the last one at the cheap theater and we loved it, though it was just a smidge over her head.
Love the firefly!!

[becomingkate.livejournal.com]

How old is your daughter? Our son is 5 and he has Bumblebee on his wall too, but we haven't taken him to see any of the recent movies. He's been watching the old cartoons and cartoon movie with my husband.

Too funny about talking about Angry Birds in her sleep. Sounds like something our son would do.

[jensi08.livejournal.com]

She just turned seven. I think she found the first movie on cable a couple of years ago, and we all enjoyed it for the first time and it seemed to stick. The movies are adult, but a lot of it goes over her head as I sit and laugh quietly. But five is when you still have to worry about language and it is in there. With her, I just shoot her a look and tell her not to say whatever it is that just widened her eyes.
Does he like creepy type stuff? It's hard at that age, but mine jumped right in with Coraline and stuff like that.

[becomingkate.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think that would be a little much right now. He likes the Disney (Jim Carrey) and Muppets Christmas Carol though. Coraline creeped me out, so I'm not ready to show that to him yet. It is hard. I want to encourage his creepy side but not give him something too scary.

[jensi08.livejournal.com]

I hear ya. My daughter fell in love with twilight at three (not creepy but not your normal three year old fare), so that got her started on the vamps and other monsters. She only has seen scooby doo zombies and twilight vamps though. The real thing is way way way too much for her. I let her watch that show face off, which is about movie make up and she really gets that scary movies are fake. I am waiting a few years before the horror movie marathon though. :)
I just try to feel out her limits. She is very honest about things and will ask me to turn shows off that frighten her.

[becomingkate.livejournal.com]

That's pretty cool! Maybe I'll check out that face off show.
Our son likes that game plants vs. zombies, which is really cartoony and he wants to see "real zombies" but I know that would be too much for him.

[jensi08.livejournal.com]

Mine will be silly and suggest in all seriousness that we watch True Blood or The Walking Dead since she knows we watch them. Really?
Face Off is neat since it shows every step. She loved the zombie and horror ones and the grossest were here faves. That is not to say that she could watch the previously mentioned shows though. It is just something to show her it is all fake...someday.