My fearless, brave daughter has become clinging and fearful following a tour of a neighbor's halloween haunted house (garage). She did pretty well, and the people inside were good about toning it down and even waving to little Kate, but one scene inside depicted a mother with baby doll whose insides were being eaten by zombies-- intestine flying, etc. I know, pretty gross, right? Well, it's really affected Kate. Even though she knows it was make-believe, and that zombies aren't real, she's been talking about it non-stop ever since.
Probably the worst part is that she's been waking frequently at night. Like, at 20-30 minute intervals. It's not been every night, but became more frequent over the last weekend. Now we're working on an incentive chart for sleeping all night and it's improving. She came up last night, but went back to bed when I told her, instead of throwing a 45 minute fit like she did Friday night. Poor thing. So then she's tired, and even more grouchy during the day. What drama!
Kate's even started saying things like, "Halloween is far far away, right mommy?" or "I'm never going in a haunted house again!" Trust me, we'll be skipping the haunted house next year.
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