Big Scary Fish

This whole week you have been really sick. I think that you and I ended up getting the flu, even though we both got the flu shot a couple of months ago. The only thing that you want to do all day is sit on my lap and watch movies. Specifically, you decided that Finding Nemo is your new favorite movie. You used to only pay attention to the Baby Einstein movies, but for some reason this week you LOVE Finding Nemo. It is the only thing that can get you to stop crying at some points this week. So in the past 5 days, we have probably seen the movie about 20 times. And I found it very interesting that you were not phased at all by the "scary parts" of the movie (sharks, fish with big teeth, scuba divers, etc). That was until yesterday. For the first time yesterday afternoon, you became visibly scared of the big scary fish with huge teeth. This is the fish that has the light attached to its head to lure in its prey in the dark depths of the ocean.

I'm not sure what changed from the last time that we saw this part (about an hour and a half ago) to now. But you were definitely scarred this time. Your whole body got tense, your eyes got big and you started to whine when the big scary fish was lit up for the first time. Then you actually started to cry when it started chasing Marlin and Dorey. It took me a couple of minutes to calm you down. Then the next time that part came on, you were standing at the back door looking out into the backyard. And you heard this section starting, looked back at the TV and started crying and crawling towards me.

It is very interesting to see you starting to learn social cues. I'm pretty sure that you are not scared of the background music, because the other "scary parts" have scary music but you are not scared of them.

Love Always,
Mommy