Dear God...

I thought this was too cute.  About 2 months ago now I watched a show on the discovery channel on alligator wrestling.  Norah was in the room playing with her toys, but I had no idea what she was catching.  Ever since that show she has been scared that there are alligators on the floor and they are coming to get her.  I tried telling her that there weren't any, but her little imagination gets the best of her.  She usually starts shaking with fear and won't move.  My Mom taught her the word for being "brave" and I encourage her to be brave and go stomp on them.  That worked for awhile but now she says she "can't get rid of them".  So then we started praying and asking God to take away the alligators.  That also has worked for awhile.  And now she started waking up early, early in the morning crying that the alligators were biting her.  A few days ago I had to put a band-aide on her knee to comfort her and because of her "alligator bite".  But, thankfully 2 days ago I heard her crying at like 5am and I just stayed in bed and prayed for her (I knew why she was crying) and a few minutes later she stopped crying.  She slept in until 8:45 - which is very unusual for her!  This is what she said when I went in her room, "Mommy, I love you.  I said to God, 'dear God please take alligators away, amen' and I be brave.  I sleeping so long!"  Oh it melts my heart!  Thank you God for protecting Norah and teaching her your comfort at such a young age!!   And yes, I cried after that.  =)