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Goodbye puppy!

Caleb was our first child to have a real "favorite" toy. Ashlyn was really close to a small doll named Molly for a few months, but it never stuck like this puppy. His official name is "ba ba" ever since Caleb was about 1. We have lost the puppy before and spent hours looking for him. Caleb just LOVES this puppy and sleeps with him, chews on him, and just wants to take it everywhere. Well, he has survived the past 4 days without him. We noticed he was missing about 3 days ago, but wanted to see how he would react. He never brought it up! Yesterday, we spent a vast majority of our morning looking for it and decided he is hidden a little too good this time in our house. We know it wasn't taken anywhere this week so it is here somewhere. John and I have decided to utilize this opportunity :) We told him the puppy has gone bye-bye and to start sleeping with a couple other animals (the ones with no real attachment). He is okay with it so far. We do hope to find the puppy so we can pack it away in his special box to show him later in life. So for now, goodbye puppy!

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Anonymous said…
good for caleb! josie would throw the biggest fit if we lost bunny...again! bunny got left in st. joe one night and i drove all the way back up there to find her. i'm proud of caleb going to bed without him...josie would just die. amazing how attached to things they get. precious children!
Jamie said…
I know exactly how that is. Raquel has a shi-shi (her blanket) that she LOVES! If it gets lost, she is beside herself. She has to have it to sleep and would hold it and chew on it all day if she could. We recently banished it to her room and I sometimes find her in her in there getting her 'fix'! She is starting to realize she doesn't need it as much now because she is a 'big girl' but in the end she still needs it to fall asleep. Oh well, I'm sure she'll give it up soon. She certainly can't go to kindergarten with her blankie hanging out of her mouth!