NIGHTMARES!

My kids talk in their sleep. There. That's my nightmare. It kind of freaks me out! But in all seriousness they have conversations in their sleep. Mollie scolds her dollies in her sleep, Nikki argues with her friends, and it's really funny when they can hear each other because they sometimes argue with each other when they are asleep (not realizing they are arguing with a sleeping person while they themselves are asleep......yeah it's weird). It actually freaked out one of our babysitters. The first time she baby sat for us the kids went down to bed like a half hour after we left.

Then it began.

Let's just say she was a little reluctant to come back the next time. They thought our kids were possessed.

The only one who doesn't really talk in their sleep is Lukas. He occasionally will say something, but nothing to the extent of Nikki and Mollie. So last night when he started talking it took me a while to realize that he wasn't asleep. It started with a

"Daaaaad?"

 and me half asleep trying to make sense of the whole thing. "Go to bed Lukas."

"But Dad, um, can you come and cuddle me?"

Me still half asleep, "No, it's time to go to bed."

"OK"

silence

a few minutes later, and with a little more desperation in his voice, "Dad can you PLEASE cuddle with me?"

Ok something is up, and I thought, I bet he's scared. Now Lukas is a tough kid. He won't just come right out and say that he's scared, or hurt physically or emotionally. You have to ask him directly, and even then he won't always say it. So I went and picked him up and we went and cuddled and I asked him if he was scared.

"Well, yeah, just a little bit."

"Did you have a nightmare?"

nods

"Do you want to tell me about it?"

nods

"There was a monster, and the monster was going to eat Molls (his nickname for Mollie)."

"Really, what did you do?"

"I punched the monster in the face and he died!"

"Wow, did you save Mollie?"

Nods

"Were you scared?"

Nods

"And you killed the monster anyway?"

"Yeah, and then Mollie was safe."

The thing that is really significant here, is that Lukas isn't scared of Monsters. Well, not anymore. When he was two Monsters Inc scared the living crap out of him. But now he loves em and is not scared at all. What scared him was Mollie getting eaten. He absolutely loves that little girl so much. She is his best friend, amigo, buddy, whatever. Sure they fight, but they play so well together. He is an AWESOME big brother!