Finishing up my lunch break and I have a few things to get off my chest.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

Hmm...Would you settle for livin la vida mocha? I'm fairly sure that one could do that by just drinking cafe mochas and eating lots of chocolate.

I keep thinking about moo cows. For the last few months at random times Indi has been scared of a moo cow that he says is in the bedroom. Chances are it is a product of his two year old imagination/the fact that he is afraid of shadows. Yet somehow I keep envision rogue demon moo cows that look strangely like the chick fil a cow.

If the bogeyman really does take the shape of our own worst fears, maybe he IS being taunted by the bogeyman....in the shape of a, well, cow. Man, if Indi is afraid of cows, that worries me. Or maybe Moo Cows are a tougher, scarier, demonic cow, as you say. Hmmmmm. Or has he been sneaking stand-up comedy acts on cable. Has he heard the term Moo Cow F#@k Milk? What are you watching around that kid?!

[tracilicious]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

If the bogeyman really does take the shape of our own worst fears, maybe he IS being taunted by the bogeyman....in the shape of a, well, cow. Man, if Indi is afraid of cows, that worries me. Or maybe Moo Cows are a tougher, scarier, demonic cow, as you say. Hmmmmm. Or has he been sneaking stand-up comedy acts on cable. Has he heard the term Moo Cow F#@k Milk? What are you watching around that kid?!

The thing is, he's ok with moo cows in general. Ask him what one says and he'll respond, "moooooooooo." Moo cows come on tv, he doesn't mind. He even has several farm toys that include cows that he plays with.

One day mid-afternoon I was at my computer and he comes up and says, "Mommy! Moo cow!" I asked him what moo cow and he responded, "Moo cow hurt me!" I told him moo cows won't hurt him that they are nice. He just accepted it and said, "Oh. Moo cow nice. Ok." I soon forgot about it. Than a week or so later he comes up to me and says moo cow again. So I aks him where. He goes and knocks on his playroom door and calls, "Moooo coooow!" Now that really freaked me out!

Than there was an incident with a bird scratching on the window and he saw the shadow moving and thought the shadow was making the scary sound, and has been afraid of shadows and a little bit afraid of the dark since. He woke up in the middle of the night saying, "Moo cow scare me!" one night and has brought it up a few more times since. The last time was last night when he said moo cow was in bed with Daddy. (That freaked Michael out a little bit.)

Somewhere in the middle of all this I watched the Sixth Sense, which was a HUGE mistake because it scared the crap out of me! Really, I think that Indi had a dream or something about a cow and he's too young to understand dreams. Or he has a good imagination. He doesn't seem too scared, but he talks about it scaring him.

Either way, it's late and I'm rambling and it's time to go sleep with the moo cow!