Loveys

Before I had children I read all about loveys. The blankets or stuffed animals or other such things that kids carry with them always like Linus' blanket in the Snoopy cartoons. My first child didn't really have a lovey until we got rid of the pacifier (I guess that was her lovey.) Then she became attached to her "Puppy." Puppy is a larger beany animal that one of her grandmas had given her shortly after she was born. Puppy was left one time in a hotel in Alabama. That was the one and only time Nature Girl ever had to go without Puppy. In the event that Puppy didn't make it home I searched all the local stores and the Internet for a replacement. They don't make Puppy anymore. After a phone call to the hotel Puppy was "put on an airplane" and sent home to us. Thankfully God looks out for the little things too! My middle girl has her soft blankie. It IS soft and it is lavender and has her name on it. She would take it everywhere if I let her. But, I can't keep up with the kids much less all the things they would like to bring with them even if it is just to the grocery store. The little guy has "Ya-ya" which is Lion. It is very soft on the outside and has satin on the inside and a soft lion's head on the top of it. By child number three we finally decided we were going to take the advice of all the books and buy two loveys for Boop so if one got lost we would have another. Well, when we tried to buy a duplicate the only place we could find it was on Ebay for almost three times its original price. We decided to take our chances . . .