Fortphobia

This happened a few days ago. After Trey woke up and watched Elmo, we built a fort. Trey seemed to enjoy building it - he likes helping with almost anything. But once it was built he refused to go in. I put some toys in, but he just stood there staring inside. So I crawled in, hoping he would see how fun and non-scary it was. He threw a fit.


We left the fort up, and throughout the morning Trey would occasionally stop and study the fort.


After lunch as I was cleaning up the kitchen, I didn't hear from Trey for a while. That usually means trouble. But this time, no trouble at all - Trey conquered his fear of forts all by himself!