blankie fetish

oh yeah. the munchkin apparently inherited that from me. i remember being 4 years old and this sweet little old lady at church bribing me with a teddy bear "if you promise not to bring your blanket with you to church anymore, i'll give you this teddy bear". i saw only gain there so, of course, i took the deal.

well, now mine's got the blankie problem too. it remembers me of that scene from Mr Mom when Michael Keaton is trying to convince little Kevin to give up the "woobie". he said "one day you'll be strung out on bed spreads and you'll find yourself on the street trying to score an electric blanket" (or something like that)

she gets the least bit sleepy and i hear "get my blankie" and God forbid if we're not equipped with a blankie. so we take a blankie with us everywhere.

she had never been really attached to a particular blankie until the past 6 months when she had to have this one blankie that had fat little angels on one side and shooting stars on the other and it was blue, the material was cotton. it was super cute!

this leads me to her next habit which is chewing on everything that fits in her mouth and some things that don't. she has all of her teeth so this habit is baffling. eventually, she murdered the cherubic blankie by chewing multiple holes in it. she proceeded to stick her fingers through the holes and rip the blankie apart like a freshly gutted rabbit. sickening isn't it?

point 3: i decided to further explore domestic life and sew her a new blanket. i had bought a mini sewing machine on eBay for $35 and had used it for small projects and another failed attempts to sew her a blanket. so i spent my July 4th making her a blankie during her nap.

it has smiling multi-colored stars on one side and pink polka-dots on the other. (she picked the stars herself) the stars are cotton-fleece and the polka-dots are 100% cotton.

she hasn't really formed an opinion of it yet.