Most kids you know from the time they are born get adapted to a lovey and will need it every place they go right? I always tried to get my girls to love a favorite blankie just as I did when I was a little girl. My girls would never want anything to do with a blankie. I would buy several and even made them myself but nope… they just weren't going to have it ;).
After a couple years, Madisyn did finally want her Wiggles Blankie at night, but that only lasted about a year or so until she proclaimed loud and clear that I don't need that blankie mommy and threw it at me LOL. She gets her 'tude from her mommy 
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After my second daughter was born Lyndsee… I of course tried different blankies with her too but nope she didn't want my ole stinking blankets either HA! She wanted something that she could have anytime at the drop of a hat and it would never get lost. Ta DA… here is Lyndsee poo's lovey:
That's right her mommy Jen!! Let me explain this… when she was about 5 months old she would have to have my hair when she would nurse or fall asleep. I just thought it was her natural way of holding onto me. Guess what she still has to have my hair… if she gets hurt, or just wants to snuggle or when she goes to sleep or when she wakes up in the middle of the night she has my hair. Sometimes even if she sees a person she doesn't know she gets up in my arms and goes straight for my hair. Now I think this is just the cutest thing ever and it warms my heart that I am her lovey except at 3am in the morning when I get woke up from a deep sleep with fingers in my hair hehe and I go crazy until I realize its just my precious 2 year old hehe.
I know the other night Scott was just waking up to get out of bed to go to work and Lyndsee had rolled over to get her daddy's hair thinking it was mine. He said he laid there just a few more minutes until she drifted off to a good sleep before he got up. I was so proud of him and that warmed my heart when he told me… 🙂 He has always be a big fan of our co-sleeping even if the couch has to be his bed at nights when the girls kick him out of bed 🙁 LOL.
So what about your child? What is their lovey and does any of your children use your hair as their lovey?
Devon’s lovely is one of those birth certificate pillows. He has carried this thing around ever sense he could walk. He calls it his “Baby”. He loves to hold it and smell of it. He gets hysterical when he can’t find it. It now has holes in it that I have repaired many times, my mom even made him small pillow cases for it. Its nice to know he has this, however I hope he will soon out grow this I don’t know how much longer the pillow will last.
Abby’s is a baby afghan that took me 6 months to crochet (before I had kids). Big lesson learned – do not let your kid get attached to something that would be impossible to replace! LOL She’s still pretty attached to it, but it never leaves the house. Hannah’s only loveys travel with her – her thumb and her belly button. She’ll stick one thumb in her mouth and the other hand on her belly button. It’s how she sleeps even. I haven’t been able to put her in a one-piece outfit or pj’s since she was a year old because she then can’t reach her belly button.
Becca doesn’t really have one yet, but there’s a stuffed dog that she’s started carrying around and she gathers up a big pile of doggie and blankies whenever I get her out of her crib in the morning. So we’ll see. 🙂
Cindy… that is so sweet though.
Deb.. OMG I didn’t know there were others out there that loved their belly button. I’m sort of ashamed to admit this hehe but I play with my belly button STILL at times and my oldest little girl has the attachment to her belly button.
We could never put her in sleepers as a little baby cause this very thing!
TOO NEAT that someone else’s little girl does this as well.
never heard it called a lovey before you..hehe. My brother had a blanket…I had my thumb! lol My Nickers had snoopy’s for a bit and then that stopped. Now he is back on the snoopy kick. My baby doesn’t have anything, really. Both boys suck their thumbs, though.
I never heard the term lovey either…anyway my daughters “lovey” must be her pacifier, which she calls “pac pac”. She doesn’t use it all day, but at night she asks for it by name. I know she is a little big for it, and the end of pac pac is near..lol On another note, my daughter also loves to play with my hair.
What’s funny is that I have 6 children–5 boys and 1 girl (not in that order) and out of all of them, the girl is the ONLY one who has developed a lovey that she must have with her all the time! It is one of those Fisher Price Security Blanket Bunnies. I received it as a baby shower gift with my eldest and just kept passing it down from baby to baby until my daughter “adopted” it for herself LOL. They each had a teddy bear of their own or a cute stuffed animal they liked, but my daughter is the only one who “claimed” this bunny as her own and would carry it with her all the time. 🙂
Aubrey had a bear – she carried it everywhere for a long time and how even at 8 she sleeps with it – sorta LOL he’s usually on the floor – and she does not HAVE to sleep with it, but likes to if it’s around!
Zachary has me – that’s all he has LOL, if he’s worried, wants to go to sleep or needs “something” I am that for him, either to nurse or to just hold him….