Mom DailyA lovey My daughter will be 10 months old a week from today. My son has a blankie. I put it in his crib with him when he was a baby and he latched on. The poor blanket is thin and ripped and probably on its last days. It has been everywhere with us - on road trips, on airplanes, on hikes, at restaurants, to the movies, you name it. So Paige has fallen in love - and fallen hard - with our cat, Daphne. Anytime the cat walks into the room, Paige makes this sound of excitement and hurriedly crawls over to her. Daphne is the nicest cat ever and just lets Paige hug her. I melted. I covered her up and watched as she snuggled her head into what I'm pretty sure will be her lovey.
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10 Comments
Posted by: mom2lulu on 03/11/10 @ 8:57 am:
This hits home for me. My 3-year-old has had a blankie, called "B," since she was 1 year old. She loves that thing. But last week, she put her dolls in a clothes basket, covered them up with "B" and told me her babies needed her blankie. Every night, I say: But don't YOU need "B"? It's more upsetting to me than it is to her -- it's sad to me that she's getting older and may not need it anymore. She also has a stuffed dog, a.k.a. doggie, that she clung to for a year, now is hot and cold with. I get sad about that, too. I think doggie is now in the clothes basket with the dolls.
Posted by: Shannon on 03/11/10 @ 10:54 am:
My son has TAGGIE elephant, I noticed he was always rubbing the tags on his clothes and blankets, so I bought him a Taggie elephant. He is now 18 months old. Taggie goes everywhere with us, this morning we walked out of the house without Taggie. When we got to daycare I warned the teacher and she simply said " he'll be fine he doesn't really play with him here" Like mom2lulu I sometimes think I am more attached to Taggie then my son is and when he finally gives him up I know I will be very sad!
Posted by: MomOfOne on 03/11/10 @ 11:26 am:
I have a 6 month old, Addalynn, who is very attached to her lovey when she is tired! It is a small bunny head with the soft blankie attached to the bottom. I love putting her to bed at night and seeing her pull her lovey in close to chest like she is hugging it! Luckily I have learned from friends who have kids with lovies that the lovey can get pretty dingy and gross even after it has been washed. As soon as she attached herself to this I went to the store where the lovey was bought and picked up 1 more. We now rotate the lovies every so often so they last a little longer!
Posted by: westomom on 03/11/10 @ 1:25 pm:
My daughter is in 2nd grade and still sleeps with her two "teddys". Before she was born, we bought two identical brown teddy bears. (We bought two so I could wash one and she would still have one to cuddle). They are ragged, matted and losing fur in some spots, but she claims they are distinctly different ("new teddy" and "bald teddy") and will never evict them from her bed. Over the years she's had a rotation of stuffed animals sleeping with her, but the teddys are always there.
Posted by: findkim on 03/11/10 @ 1:38 pm:
my 10 month old is extremely attached to a small stuffed lion. she gets so excited at the site of him... so cute. if she is trying to do something with both hands she will hold the lion in her mouth. it's really hilarious to watch. we bought a second one so that we can rotate them.
Posted by: Melissa on 03/11/10 @ 2:25 pm:
This melts my heart.
Posted by: AngieG on 03/11/10 @ 2:37 pm:
My kids both still have their "loveys" and they are 9 and 11! My 9-year-old daughter has "Zoey", a little plush dog who has been her favorite since she was one! While she loves Zoey, if she was parted with her for some reason, I think she would be okay with it. On the other hand, my son STILL has his blankie...he's 11! It no longer goes out of the house (okay maybe only when we go on road trips) but he sleeps with it every night. It's nothing more than a rag at this point, but he won't give it up. I haven't pushed...he tends to be a little insecure at night and seems to hate to be alone, so I don't want to upset him. I think it's harmless, but does anyone have any suggestions or opinions about when or if we should expect him to part with his blankie?
Posted by: Mara on 03/11/10 @ 4:26 pm:
My now 15 year old daughter carried her blanket everywhere for years. We spent many many hours looking for that blanket over the years and sometimes I thought our daughter hid it just to watch us search but I wouldn't trade those hectic searches for anything because it was so important. When she went to kindergarten - which was traumatic for us all - we let her put her blanket in her back pack and she could peek at it now and then and it made a big difference to her. Her blanket was made of a woven material and I had to weave yarn through it many times to hold it together. My mom put a new edging on it and it eventually became a piece of material about 8 x 6 inches and looked almost like fibre art. We eventually talked her into putting it in a shadow box - I can't reacll how old she was - 2nd or 3rd grade and put it on her dresser so she could see it. Every so often it would disappear from the box and end up in bed. She is now the most well adjusted kid and I think part of it is because we allowed her to take her time with her security blanket and recognized how important it was to her. Dare I admit that I have a 2 inch squre of my old blanket in some box somewhere? I also have my husband's patchwork dog but he would never admit that he remembers it but I know he does.
Posted by: Melinda on 03/11/10 @ 10:05 pm:
My son has the fleece blanket that matched his crib bedding, he'll be 7 in 3 weeks. My teen daughter never really had anything and the little one, 2 years old switches most stuffed animals but is in love with her Ellema the Elephant Zoobie Pet blanket.
Posted by: Stacie on 03/15/10 @ 10:52 am:
My daughters still sleep with their blankies, and they are nearly 18 and 13! The 13-year-old has always called her two blankies her "night-nights." My older daughter recently had surgery, and we had to bring her blanket to the hospital. It's crocheted and is completely indestructible. Still looks new. She is considering allowing me to cut it into blocks to incorporate into a quilt.