Bye, Fake!
i am afraid i may have scarred my poor, trusting child.
here's the story:
on halloween, after we did some cute kiddie things, we went over to our friends' house who always really trick out their house for halloween. their porch was rather creepified, very haunted-house like. it was past nathaniel's bedtime at that point and he had had a lot of excitement with the trick-or-treating, not to mention some candy (which he never gets normally). so, when we get to this house he's totally unnerved by the scary halloween stuff. we try to calm him down and assure him, and he stopped crying but was still tense, very obviously not at ease. we kept explaining that the dolls and such were fake, not real. he has a new word now: he kept repeating "fake". we set up the pack & play in the basement and put him down.
we slept there. in the morning, we go out to the porch. the fog machine and darkness, etc, are no longer factors, but the halloween props are still there. nathaniel gets upset, so we kept telling him they're fake, knocking on the dolls and peeling apart the props/masks to show him it's not real. he keeps repeating "fake". finally, when it was time to go and we were saying goodbye to everyone, he says "BYE, FAKE!". so cute, but sad at the same time, because it really got under his skin.
sooooooo, since the whole halloween/fake ordeal, he noticed a day-of-the-dead skeleton head maraca we've had sitting amongst various statues, candles, etc. on our mantel. he really zoned in on it and started calling that "fake". i brought it down to show him it makes music and it's not harmful, but he seemed uneasy about it. so i put it away in a different room. now, sometimes he goes to the door of that room and says "fake". poor kid. i feel bad for him. people have assured me that he won't remember this, but ay yay yay, i feel bad.
cheek/neshika:
i have been trying to make a better effort to speak more hebrew with nathaniel. so, he knows the word "cheek" in english. the word for "kiss" in hebrew is "neshika". when i say neshika, i usually give him a kiss on the cheek. he repeats "sheeeee-ka", and points to either my or his cheek.
ant/aunt:
last night we were reading the felt book i made him. when we got to the ant, he pointed and said "ant". then he said "tamar", which is my sister's name. (aunt tamar). it was really cute. i called to tell her about it and she was so excited.
here's the story:
on halloween, after we did some cute kiddie things, we went over to our friends' house who always really trick out their house for halloween. their porch was rather creepified, very haunted-house like. it was past nathaniel's bedtime at that point and he had had a lot of excitement with the trick-or-treating, not to mention some candy (which he never gets normally). so, when we get to this house he's totally unnerved by the scary halloween stuff. we try to calm him down and assure him, and he stopped crying but was still tense, very obviously not at ease. we kept explaining that the dolls and such were fake, not real. he has a new word now: he kept repeating "fake". we set up the pack & play in the basement and put him down.
we slept there. in the morning, we go out to the porch. the fog machine and darkness, etc, are no longer factors, but the halloween props are still there. nathaniel gets upset, so we kept telling him they're fake, knocking on the dolls and peeling apart the props/masks to show him it's not real. he keeps repeating "fake". finally, when it was time to go and we were saying goodbye to everyone, he says "BYE, FAKE!". so cute, but sad at the same time, because it really got under his skin.
sooooooo, since the whole halloween/fake ordeal, he noticed a day-of-the-dead skeleton head maraca we've had sitting amongst various statues, candles, etc. on our mantel. he really zoned in on it and started calling that "fake". i brought it down to show him it makes music and it's not harmful, but he seemed uneasy about it. so i put it away in a different room. now, sometimes he goes to the door of that room and says "fake". poor kid. i feel bad for him. people have assured me that he won't remember this, but ay yay yay, i feel bad.
cheek/neshika:
i have been trying to make a better effort to speak more hebrew with nathaniel. so, he knows the word "cheek" in english. the word for "kiss" in hebrew is "neshika". when i say neshika, i usually give him a kiss on the cheek. he repeats "sheeeee-ka", and points to either my or his cheek.
ant/aunt:
last night we were reading the felt book i made him. when we got to the ant, he pointed and said "ant". then he said "tamar", which is my sister's name. (aunt tamar). it was really cute. i called to tell her about it and she was so excited.