A few weeks ago we first watch the Winnie the Pooh movie by Disney. It's a cute flick and Violet enjoyed it. At one point pretty early in the movie, Owl blames the disappearance of Eeyore's tail on "the Backson." The characters launch into big song about the Backson and all of its misdeeds.
I didn't think much of it because the tone of the song struck me as not being really scary. Violet surprised me that night, then, when she started screaming at bedtime because a Backson was in the room. I calmed her down and explained that all she had to do was tell the Backson to leave and he had to because it was her room. After a loud declaration of "Backson get out!" by Violet, she seemed calmed and slept fine.
We had a few more upset bedtimes when I had to remind her to tell the Backson to leave, but then she'd quietly go to sleep. After a week or so of Backson evictions, Violet seemed to have forgotten about the monster and we returned to normal at bedtime.
Last night I woke at about four in the morning because Christie was returning to bed. Christie is 38 weeks pregnant, so she gets up from bed a bunch of times at night while the fetus pounds on her bladder. I got the sense this time, though, that she had been up for a while.
"Is everything OK?" I asked her?
"Violet was crying. She had a nightmare. I went in there and she just hugged me so tight," she said.
"That's so sad," I said.
"Yeah. She said that the Backson's in her room. And we had to kick him out."
That one damn song from the Winnie the Pooh movie keeps upsetting our kiddo.
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