What do you do with monsters?  Eve has taken an interest in monsters and talks about them a lot.  She’s not really scared, but will often ask if there are monsters in her room.  I say no, of course.  It’s a funny thing and not something we’ve had to deal with so far.  It started shortly after they watched Monsters, Inc.  When she started talking about monsters in her closet (or in the office, or any other dark area) decided to not let the fear get to far.  I found a book at the library about a monster boy having a birthday party.  It was about sharing, really, and the monsters acted just like people, not scary monsters.  Now she wavers between asking me about monsters in dark room and pretending to be a monster herself.  I’m trying hard to keep it silly and not scary because I really don’t want a kid who is afraid of monsters or the dark.  She has such an awesome imagination.

On another subject, I love how Eve draws.  She holds the crayons/markers/pens the right way and makes somewhat recognizable pictures and puts eyes on people and other fun things.  I bought the kids bathtub crayons recently and they have been loving them.  In the tub tonight Eve drew me (a big circle) and her (a little circle) inside my belly.  She gave us both eyes and I got a mouth and a “pagina” :)  She is facinated with babies in bellies lately and talks a lot about when she was a tiny baby in my belly.  It’s so cool to see her developing the ability to put those thoughts into pictures.