The "Alien"

About 6 months ago my parents came home with this "thing" for my boys.  They begged me to take it to our house, but of course I refused!  Who would want that?  Well, we of course moved in with them a few months later, and when we moved into our new house a few weeks ago, it MAGICALLY made it into one of our boxes and ended up at our house.  

Talmage has been a little scared since we have been in our house, which is quite understandable.  He tells me he is scared of monsters.  So the other night I'm trying to show him there are no monsters in his closets or under his bed.  But there was no comforting him.  I was about at my witts end, when he asks if the "alien" could sleep with him.  WHAT??!!  My child, who is afraid of monsters, wants to sleep with the "alien"?  So I get the alien, and Talmage settles right down into bed.  He has slept with the thing every night since then.  If it were me, I'd be afraid of the "alien" sleeping next to me, not imaginary monsters!!!!! Kids do the funniest things!