shadow play

After reading books and singing songs with Simon at bedtime, we laid there side by side in his bed. He has a night light in his room that casts quite a glow and he pointed to the wall in front of us and said, "There's a monster on my wall!" In fact, it was just the outline of his dresser with some animal figurines on top, so I tried to dispel any fear by explaining to him what a shadow is. I began showing him my own shadow on the wall next to us by waving and making hopping little bunnies. He was so intrigued! He began waving too and then there was no more fear of monsters on the wall.

This morning when we got up for church, he came in my room as I was getting ready and asked me if I wanted to come see his shadow. Then I heard him in his room calling out repeatedly, "Shaaaaa-dooooww....where are you??" I told him to turn out his light and close the door and then he'd see it. A moment later, he came rushing back in to tell me, "Mommy! I found her!" The only curious thing is that his shadow is a girl!