Mommy Moon

Alex did wind up napping today, but for just about 45-60 minutes, because I can't let him sleep later than 3:30 to make sure he'll go to bed at a decent hour. In the process of entertaining him after nap, I tossed away worries of getting any cleaning done and just dove into the moment.

He found a cabinet containing some items I hadn't used in some time, along with some positive affirmation books I'd been reminded of recently. Instead of taking the dangerous items away from him right away, I sat down on the floor and went over them with him. He was so intrigued by so much in this cabinet, which contained several different decks of tarot cards, some hardcover notebooks, a stone case of runes, candlesticks and incense - both stick and oil jar form. I showed him how to smell each of the oil and stick incense scents - and he only liked the Jasmine and the Peppermint. He didn't much care for the pictures on the tarot cards. He loved the runes and he called their small stone container a 'pirate ship chest' which he pronounces 'pye-ra-ship jest'.

He absolutely loved the notebook with the cover that portrays a faced moon surrounded by stars. He kept saying 'Moon is happy' and to the inside pages containing a faced sun and a faced moon, he said 'Daddy Sun' 'Mommy Moon'. Then he went on about the moon.  "Mommy moon. Moon is happy. Mommy moon." Is he saying that he thinks I'm happy most of the time? I hope so.

He latched onto a pair of candlesticks I bought in Bed, Bath & Beyond some 15-16 years ago. They have dangling charms of a sun and a disc and some crystals and he called them "Bells". He kept on strumming the charms with his finger making bell sounds. He wouldn't let go of them all day.

After his discovery of all my new-Agey things, he wanted to draw in our special picture book - a blank notebook in which he draws on the right side of an open page set and I draw on the left. I drew a faced moon and star and he was elated. "That's a moon! Moon is happy! Star! Star is happy!"

May 19, 2009