Ah HA!

It is amazing those things that come up now that I go, "ah HA!"  THAT'S why J does that!

J has a tremendously weird sense of smell.  The child can smell something that no other human being on this planet should be able to smell.  It usually drives me absolutely crazy, because usually he's complaining about something that smells.

He fixates on odd things to worry about.  Today, it was storming a lot, and he got very worried that the electricity would go out.  He became fixated on it, searching the house for a flashlight that he could hold in case the lights went out.  Of course, wouldn't you know it, we couldn't find one anywhere.

So, as he paced the floor, wondering where our flashlights were, I looked over and saw a candle on the coffee table.  Eureka!  I asked him if I lit a candle, would that calm him down?  I explained that if I lit it, then if the lights went off, something would be already on.  He said it would.  As soon as I lit the candle, he immediately calmed down and went on about his afternoon.  I never heard another word about it.