Her answer? "You guys better get on it." Gee, thanks for the advice. I thought it would just pack itself?
Anyway, I'm tired of complaining (No, I'm actually not. I'm the world's best complainer and could do it all day every day. Seriously, I could always find something to complain about. I know, not a feature to brag about, but at least I'm being honest. But I figured it's more like you guys are tired of hearing me complain.) So I thought I would introduce you to Puppy.
Puppy is a stuffed hippo that quickly became my son's favorite stuffed animal. He carries it around the house with him, sleeps with it nightly, and likes to chew on it's dirty tail and ears (making them even dirtier and stiff from dried spit.) Puppy is something we're always on the search for - we currently have 3 puppies - one stays at my Mom's house, and two live at home with us. We have multiples because we've already had a few nights where one puppy went missing and we had to put in a back up puppy - and I know when he gets older, puppy may get left at home, or at a gas station... So it's important to have back ups. However, back ups are difficult to find - of course this particular stuffed animal is a TY animal - and TY likes to "retire" their animals (seriously, wth does a stuffed animal need to retire for? Like it's difficult being a childs play thing?) And puppy is retired. Meaning he's impossible to find - and when we do find him on ebay, we tend to have to pay kind of a lot for him - I mean not 100 dollars a lot, but I think 15 bucks for such a small stuffed animal is a lot. So we search thrift stores and yard sales and lots on craigslist and while we have yet to come across anymore, I do hope one day our fleet of puppies will expand.
Now, you may be asking yourself, why the hell is this hippo named puppy? Well, his given name (i.e the name on his tag) was Wade. We started calling him Schluffy - I'm not sure why I think when I worked with a Jewish family they would call naps schluffy's (though I may have just butchered what they actually called it.) So I started saying "go get your Schluffy and we'll go for a schnoo."
Well. While Cayden couldn't talk, we always called it his Schluffy, Schluff, or Wade. Now that he's talking, I don't think he can say Schluffy. So. It's puppy.
Why did I feel the need to introduce you to my son's stuffed animal you may ask? Well, because Puppy's been there for us through a lot. Puppy sleeps with my son and helps make him feel safe. Puppy comforted Cayden during his surgery. Puppy goes on adventures with us and never complains about stepped on, thrown, snuggled/strangled, chewed on, slobbered on... He's just there, unconditionally, and I thought he deserved a shout out.
Does your child have a puppy?
Oh, I love the picture with the oxygen mask on Puppy! Cayden is so very adorable.
ReplyDeleteWhen Jacob was in the 1-2 age, he had a golden retriever toy that he had to sleep with everynight. My mom had bought it for him. One day, she took him to the store, and he saw the exact same dog on the shelf. He had a meltdown because Dog was at the store when he should be home. I would have just taken him out of the store and told him Dog was at home, but grandmothers are a whole different sort--she bought him another. We left the second Dog in the car for all such future emergencies, and took to calling him Car Dog. Eventually, we lost one of them, but the name Car Dog stuck to the remaining dog.
not yet...but as a kid I had a piece of blanket I would carry around...and wouldn't sleep without so I know how Cayden feels... I think my mom cut the blanket in pieces so I wouldn't get hysterical when I lost a piece...ahh memories.
ReplyDeleteI hear you on the moving front...when we were packing things up I wanted to keep everything in the end I wanted to just throw it all away just so we could be done with it...definitely time to downsize.
I was trying to find these really cute picture I have of Puppy on a pumpkin, buuuut my husband rearranged the computer and now I can't find anything on it.
ReplyDeleteThe Family I nanny'd for had 2 girls - the younger girl hadn't really settled on a lovie yet, but the older one had a pink bear named... Well, pink bear. They got multiples so that they would wear more slowly, in case they lost one, ect. Well, they tried to keep the fact that they had multiples a secret from her - but she stumbled across one day when the housekeeper was putting bear into the wash. Her Mom told her that they had an extra bear (they had about five, she still doesn't know they have that many) because they have magic and every once in awhile one of them needs to go into the closet to re-charge it's magic.
I thought that was pretty brilliant. I know soon we'll have to start hiding one puppy, Cayden sometimes finds both of them and likes to carry both around. And not that that's a huge deal - but if we lose both having that extra really isn't going to help :-)
Delia - We've been downsizing like crazy. It's actually one of the pluses in moving... I tried to tell my husband he had too much stuff, but he never listened to me. He's a little bit of a pack rat, though he'll NEVER admit it. Anyway, he actually started throwing crap away... Which makes me super excited! We just have lots of stuff I want to keep for the baby in the future... Like Cayden's out grown clothes. But I REALLY don't want to pack it.
And we have a bunch of random items - like cords to stuff - that I have no idea WHAT they go too, but I'm scared that if I pitch them, we'll need them.
But I guess we haven't needed them thus far, so they might as well go...
OMG!!!! i know i say this on every damn post but could your son get any cuter!!!??? he's the type of baby i would irritate to death by following him around and ooing and ahhing at him! ive done this to my aunts children.. i think they hate me. lol! my lil bro used to have one of these. it was a stuffed animal husky, and he called it max. i dont know why max. anyway its in his class pictures, its at family holiday pictures, pretty much where ever he went max had to be there!
ReplyDeleteWe have "Mink". Mink is a blanket that my son NEEDS to have when he's tired/sleeping. We had an accident with kool aid one night, and Mink needed a wash. Griffin cried and screamed and tried to get us to pull Mink out of the washer and dryer for about an hour and a half or so. It was so sad. I'm hoping some day I'll find another Mink so we can have a back up.
ReplyDeleteI wish he had a stuffed animal though, because that's a lot more portable and less likely to get dragged on the floor than a blanket.