My little man is OBSESSED with Barney. I don't even know if obsessed gives it enough emphasis! Everytime he sees a Tv "BARNEY!!", when he wakes up in the morning "BARNEY!", when he wakes up from naps "BARNEY!", after dinner "BARNEY!!". Someone please tell him that his world does not, and should not revolve around this huge purple dinosaur!!
This has spoiled my plans to give him a monkey themed birthday party...I am being a great mother by putting aside MY wishes and putting myself in his shoes...I know that if he could comprehend birthday parties and all that goes along with them, he would tell me Barney is what he wants!! So the monkey theme is on the backburner, maybe when he is 3!!
Aunt Vicki got him a Barney plush animal and it has literally not left his side since he recieved it!! I tried to make it be like his little blankie that he sleeps with and have him leave Barney in the crib for sleeping only but that soooo did not work. After his nap I said "Ok, lets leave Barney here so he can get some sleep" (I tell him that Barney & Tuggy, his blankie toy, have been up all during his nap helping him to sleep and so when he wakes up it is THEIR nap time and they need to stay in the crib.) This went over alright with his blankies Tuggy and MooMoo but when it came to Barney, oh boy you should've seen the hysterics!!! I even went through our bedtime routine with him "Let's lay barney down, give Barney tuggy so he can sleep, let's cover him up, night night Barney" and all my little man could manage to say was a muffled "Bah-neee" in between his inconsolable sobs!! I quickly realized this was a battle I couldn't win and didn't want to fight!
Barney now accompanies us everywhere we go, nap time, bed time, play time, car rides etc. And I suppose I'll have to deal with that unless I want to witness my son's heart break in front of my eyes! So I give up, Barney has won! I guess it's not so bad, we all grew out of Barney at one point...I doubt he'll be dragging Barney to high school or college with him.......right?!?!?
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