Sunday, May 14, 2006

The Coyote with Green Eyes

Judah came in our bed last night scared saying he saw a coyote with green eyes. He hadn't gone to sleep and dreamed yet so we couldn't understand why he said that. After reading him a few books and then telling him coyotes don't live him our neighborhood, I carried him back into his room, as we walked into his room, he was screaming. I kept saying "what? what? where?" He point outside his room and toward the sliding glass door. I saw two green eyes looking at me. They were reflection from the green led light under the light switch on the other side of the room.

"Oh....it's only the light switch.." I said but he was still staring at the 2 green eyes. I showed him the green light on the wall, turn on the yard light and then open and closed the sliding glass door and explain to him that he was seeing the reflection of the green led light. After a few skeptical minutes and a couple of questions, he finally understood and calmly went to bed. As I tucked him, I chuckled to him "a coyote with green eyes and it was only the light switch!" He smiled and went to bed comfortably.

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