Chicken Little attends a fabulous Montissori that we all love. One of the highlights several times each year is bringing PJ home, a traveling bear complete with suitcase and clothing. Today it was Chicken Little’s turn again.
He obviously watches too many superhero cartoons because he says things to me like “Now Mom, you’ll get what’s coming to you” on a regular basis but it was interesting watching him with PJ. Normally he runs through the house ready to fight bad guys where they may be hiding. PJ seems to have created a kinder, gentler Chicken Little.
He insisted PJ get dressed because it was too cold in the house (this despite that Chicken Little usually runs around wearing only his underwear and socks - the underwear at my insistence). He then proclaimed that PJ needed some shelter and a bed. He spent at least an hour coloring a cardboard box and positioning PJ in it. And then the whole rest of the afternoon he spent wrestling PJ from toddler’s sticky clutch, both of them shouting “MINE, MINE!”
At bedtime Chicken Little happily climbed into bed with PJ without crying or whining once. Amazing. PJ, we’ll miss you when you go back to school!