Kyle and Owen both have loveys (attachment objects). I’ve posted about this before. Kyle has had “Honey Bunny” since the first day we met him and gave it to him. Owen has “Lovey Lion” — which he ‘chose’ as his lovey (i.e., began needing it to fall asleep and did not want to part with) since he was about 10 months old. Owen’s is actually a giraffe, but we don’t care– we’ve always called it Lovey Lion and my guess is that we always will. When they started daycare, at age 12 months, I wanted to have loveys for them in their daycare cribs that we could just leave there (so that we wouldn’t be constantly worrying about getting the loveys back-and-forth). We already had a second bunny (that was originally intended to be Owen’s), so that was no problem for Kyle. But I went
crazy trying to find an exact duplicate of Lovey Lion for Owen. But I did, and they eventually came to call their daycare loveys “Honey Bunny’s Twin Brother” and “Lovey Lion’s Twin Brother.” When they stopped going to daycare, just after they turned 3, we brought their daycare loveys home. And since then, they have both slept with both of their loveys every night (and taken them everywhere we’ve travelled to, etc.). So… Kyle has “Honey Bunny and Honey Bunny’s Twin Brother” and Owen has “Lovey Lion and Lovey Lion’s Twin Brother.” It was really important to all of us that Meera had a nice lovey to attach to. When I was pregnant we went to our favorite boutique shop in New Hope and we picked out Meera’s lovey…. a beautiful soft white rabbit blankie thingy. Starting when she was around 2 months old I began placing the rabbit lovey blankie thingy right next to her face in her crib whenever she was going down for a nap or to sleep for the night. Right around when she was 12 weeks old I started to notice her falling in love with it. She would rub her face and hands on it, etc. And she’d smile and coo when she’d see it. I brought it with us when Meera and I went to New Hampshire for Karen’s funeral. The rabbit gave Meera great delight and comfort on that trip. And it was right around then that I knew that Meera was really attaching to it. She now cuddles up to it when she sleeps in her crib. And she smiles and ‘talks’ to it often. And she loves to try to put the arms or ears of it into her mouth and chew on it. So, Meera has her own lovey. Kyle has named it “Fuzzy.” Officially it is “Fuzzy Bunny” but we call it “Fuzzy” or “Fuzz Fuzz” for short. đŸ˜‰ We’ll see what happens down the road, but just in case this really is
it for Meera, I wanted to post these photos of Meera sleeping snuggled up with Fuzz Fuzz in her crib at age 3 months old.
Kyle and Owen both have loveys (attachment objects). I’ve posted about this before. Kyle has had “Honey Bunny” since the first day we met him and gave it to him. Owen has “Lovey Lion” — which he ‘chose’ as his lovey (i.e., began needing it to fall asleep and did not want to part with) since he was about 10 months old. Owen’s is actually a giraffe, but we don’t care– we’ve always called it Lovey Lion and my guess is that we always will. When they started daycare, at age 12 months, I wanted to have loveys for them in their daycare cribs that we could just leave there (so that we wouldn’t be constantly worrying about getting the loveys back-and-forth). We already had a second bunny (that was originally intended to be Owen’s), so that was no problem for Kyle. But I went crazy trying to find an exact duplicate of Lovey Lion for Owen. But I did, and they eventually came to call their daycare loveys “Honey Bunny’s Twin Brother” and “Lovey Lion’s Twin Brother.” When they stopped going to daycare, just after they turned 3, we brought their daycare loveys home. And since then, they have both slept with both of their loveys every night (and taken them everywhere we’ve travelled to, etc.). So… Kyle has “Honey Bunny and Honey Bunny’s Twin Brother” and Owen has “Lovey Lion and Lovey Lion’s Twin Brother.” It was really important to all of us that Meera had a nice lovey to attach to. When I was pregnant we went to our favorite boutique shop in New Hope and we picked out Meera’s lovey…. a beautiful soft white rabbit blankie thingy. Starting when she was around 2 months old I began placing the rabbit lovey blankie thingy right next to her face in her crib whenever she was going down for a nap or to sleep for the night. Right around when she was 12 weeks old I started to notice her falling in love with it. She would rub her face and hands on it, etc. And she’d smile and coo when she’d see it. I brought it with us when Meera and I went to New Hampshire for Karen’s funeral. The rabbit gave Meera great delight and comfort on that trip. And it was right around then that I knew that Meera was really attaching to it. She now cuddles up to it when she sleeps in her crib. And she smiles and ‘talks’ to it often. And she loves to try to put the arms or ears of it into her mouth and chew on it. So, Meera has her own lovey. Kyle has named it “Fuzzy.” Officially it is “Fuzzy Bunny” but we call it “Fuzzy” or “Fuzz Fuzz” for short. đŸ˜‰ We’ll see what happens down the road, but just in case this really is it for Meera, I wanted to post these photos of Meera sleeping snuggled up with Fuzz Fuzz in her crib at age 3 months old. 