Be Gone Goats and Ducks! PS! Please Cancel the Tooth Fairy

Henry after his 3rd haircut! It was long!

Dear Mama's Tuff Guy, 
I seem to remember previously writing about your newly developing fears, but just in case I couldn't allow it to go unannotated.   We still frequent our library once a week.  In the last month you've been really getting excited over the bigger books with more text, more story, and more information.  You love to pick out books or allow the librarian to pull some for us.  On this particular loaner book batch you loved the book by David Shannon, Duck on a Bike.  This story opens with a spunky duck that sees a bike in the barnyard.  He decides to give it a try and rides through the barnyard showing off his riding abilities.  The other animals make various comments about that duck on a bike until a gang of kids come riding through the barnyard to visit the house.  The other animals decided to ride the bikes while the kids are gone.  Seems like an interesting choice for a kid that loves books with animals until we read it about 20 times...and that 21st read sparked at fear of the goat.  You were sitting up next to Daddy as he read it to you and as the page turned to the goat you started trembling and crying your eyes out.  You didn't sleep in your bed for a week because, "Dat goat been knockin' on my window!" and, "I saw that cow and horse flying on the ceiling."  After a week of ending up in our room I decided to take a small pump spray of all natural room freshener and told you it was "goat spray."  If I spray it three times around your room and say, "GOAT BE GONE!  GOAT GO HOME!"  Goat in fact will not come to knock on your window.  Alas you returned to your regular habits at bed time.  Until this week when the Tooth Fairy joined the bunch on your scary list.  After reading Squirrelly Grey, by James Kochalka.  Squirrelly looses his front two teeth and when Tooth Fairy comes to take the teeth she is caught in a spider's web.  Because Squirrelly helps her out she gives him a magic nut for his teeth.  

The magic nut helps him get Hungry Fox away from him and creates a rainbow to color his gray world.  It is pretty much about do good and good comes to you, karma.  We saw a problem with this book the first read through when you asked Daddy to not allow the tooth fairy to come into Henny's room.  We explained that she only comes when you loose a tooth and if Mommy and Daddy should call her.  This helped for 10 minutes then I was on an elaborate hoaxed phone call to cover up the hoaxed lady that takes teeth in your sleep.   I told, "Ms. Tooth Fairy that Henry would really rather you not come right now to see him."  As I talked on and on you stared at me and bobbed you head making sure my words were conveying the depth of your desire to never see Ms. Tooth Fairy in your room.  I was convincing enough that Daddy whispered, "Who did you call?"  You've stated all day that the Tooth Fairy is a nice lady trying to reassure yourself.   At the conclusion of our night time rituals that night the spray came out and you snuggled into your blankets and asked with heart delievered from an earnest raised brow, "Mommy, Don't be afraid of that goat or the tooth fairy."   Thanks, baby for the concern but I am okay. 
Love, Mama