Super scared of Super huh?!

It's a bird, it's a plane...NO! It's Kal-el's least favorite toy of the moment. It's the highly intimidating life sized non cuddley Superman. Kal-el can't stand this imposter. There is only room for one Superman in this house and its Kal-el lol. Despite our efforts Super baby just can not get used to super boy. Today was the closest victory we have ever had. He managed to walk over and push him down then run right back to me and hide his little face against my legs. Is it a bad thing that we sometimes use him for disciplinary purposes? For example sitting him in frount of dangerous light sockets that my too-smart-for-his-own -good toddler removes the child safety guards off of. I didn't think so...Superman to the rescue ;-)

On guard lol

Most of the time he won't even look at him

let alone go near him..

Mimsy "beating up" superman for Kal-el..we have tried many things

in our efforts to make him less frightened.

He is very amused by this!

Just not enough to approach him....yet

Still trying to work up his nerve...

Here are some of the many many different ways we have tried

to build a better bond....

Putting them in close proximity to each other

FAIL

I immediately rescued him he grabbed his carrot easter bat

"I'll save you Geensheer!"

That's it nobody messes with Super!

This is where he drops the bat, runs over and touches Superman,

gets scared once again, knocks him down, and runs back over to Mommy.

Mommy will save you! The staredown LOL

Among our other attempts :

Diapering Superman so he seems less threatening

Spanking him: Bad, bad doll!

Loving on him..

We tried ignoring him..

And many other weird things.....

A little more love for the big guy...

Getting closer....

Yay! The best shot of the day..they may not exactly be friends

but Kal-el has over come his Superman phobia! :-)