He asked for a night light. And I thought: well I will try anything and my daughter got one at 3 so why not.
I loathe going from shop to shop looking for things. My daughter has the Ikea flower night light and it is still going strong but I loathe Ikea on a Saturday and I remembered seeing one in a shop around the corner. So, quick as a flash, as I am wont to do, I went right out and bought one.
The light I bought was Italian, from Market Import, one of my favouritest shops in all of Melbourne which sells colourful linens and tin and porcelain from Mexico. I also came home with some goat's milk soap and two little pear plates. Arrgghh.
The supposed five minute assembly of modular bits of white bendy plastic of course became 1/2 an hour but I was most impressed with the result. Isn't it cute?
Then my husband arrived home, saw it and said it looked like the devil. Something to do with the horns. And I must say when it is all lit up it does give me a start, glowing in a slightly menacing way in the corner of the room. Especially if you walk past the bedroom and quickly glance in.
Of course it doesn't matter what we think. Little P loves it and it lights up the room like a beacon (so now he thinks it's morning when it's actually 3 am). Which then led to a whole series of conversations along the lines of 'Okay, it's only morning when mummy says it is morning. Until I say 'it's morning now!' you have to stay in bed sleeping peacefully'.
Maybe I should have been less hasty and gone with an egg light, like this:
What do you think? Devil or Cow?
13 comments:
Sweet bovine beauty, definitely.
Your poor son - I hope tonight is better for him.
Moo moo for sure, if you're a child (but I would've said klansmen hood rather than devil...) Hopefully those 3am morning starts end soon! xx
A Klansman nightlight! Now that is something really scary.
Ironically I would have gone with the Egg instead.
Bovine for sure....
Well I think it is cute, but if you wanted to replace it with something else, these self-lit colourful tables are truly to die for. A designer's solution to an age-old problem...Check them out on design milk. And they ship to oz. http://design-milk.com/night-light-table/
Poor little guy! Hope you all get a good nights sleep soon! We get lot of comments on my sons night light (and it is one of my favourite things in the house)!
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A guardian cow. It doesn't scare me, and I'm easily scared.
cool cow, v.cool cow. not a touch of madness! jx
If it keeps your little boy happy, & he gets a good night sleep then I'd definitely go with cow! Cute. Lee :)
I can see what he means about the devil resemblence - altho only when you pointed it out, my first thought was that it's very cute indeed!
Funnily enough, my 4 yr old son asked for a night light the other day - but he only wants it when he's "older"....rightyho then!
Thank you for your comment on my Elle post....I didn't know that she had had PND altho when I googled it of course there were references everywhere! I was very interested to read that about it! I hadn't seen the Sunday Times piece either....hopefully she is coming into a really good part of her life now....
Thank you for all your great comments, it's always great to hear from you :)
A bit of a hybrid really, but I suppose the little guy takes after the bovine side most of all.
(Thanks for your funny comment, Jane! You're always so fearsomely determined and competent, graced by a fine sense of the ridiculous.)
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