Com'on Mama, Follow Me......

"com'on Mama, fowwow me..." Of course Asher, I'll follow you.... "Mama, a roar, a yion, a baby Asha, now" Of course I'll pretend to be a lion with my baby Asher, we'll crawl on the floor and roar, right now, I'll stop typing on the laptop and I'll join you. "mama, a yion, a baby a mama, a yion, a roar" Yes Asher, I'm the baby lion's mama, okay I'll roar with you. "mama?" Yes baby? "Mama a yov a baby, a asha, a yion, right mama?" Yes, baby, Mama loves her baby Asher, her baby Asher Lion, thats right...always. So we crawl all over the apartment, I'm sure the people downstairs hate us, but we crawl and we roar and we pretend to purr while rubbing our cheeks together and doing nose kisses. He is smart, he knows Lions purr, Lions do face kisses, Mama Lions love their cubs. We crawl we crawl, for over an hour, my knees really hurt, but we don't stop crawling, honestly, when will he chat this much again?...it could be days, and I want to watch him be a normal kid for a while even if some of it gets lost in translation. We crawl. Eventually we crawl into his room, he stops at his closet and says "oh no! Mama Stop!" Whats the matter sweetness? "a baby a asha, geared" Why is baby Asher scared? "oh no, a monstah, a get" Baby there is no monster coming to get you! "monstah inna inna dark" Baby there is no monster in the dark closet. (Tears) Okay baby lets scare that monster, come on baby lion, follow me, roar, lets scare that monster. So we look at the closet, we roar. The mama Lion's roar is fierce, the baby lion roars with tears on his face. We roar until he laughs and says "Okay mama, fowwow me" he brings me to the tv and says "Haf a duder show a rocket?" Yes baby you can watch Super Why or Little Einstines. Later that night Phill and I are in bed. It took hours to get Asher to sleep. He doesn't sleep well ever. And we hear him cry. We try not to react right away, we pray he puts himself back to sleep, and we wait, barely breathing. Fingers and toes crossed. And then, we hear it, a tiny roar, then a louder roar, then a fierce roar. And then nothing. A few minutes later, I check on him...fast asleep with a sweet smile on his face. Go away scary Monster or Baby Asher Lion will scare you away! And he did!