The Thing With The Shoe

A few weeks ago, I proudly commented to a friend that Nathan does not have a "lovey" (for those of you that don't know that term...a lovey is a stuffed animal, blanket, or toy that a lot of kids fall in love with and HAVE to carry it everywhere. They just cannot live without it, and it is the end of the world if it gets lost, left or breaks.). Well, I should have said "Nathan does not have a lovey...yet." because in the last few days he has really taken to a couple of things. The first thing that has major potential to being his lovey is this little bear/blanket that "Auntie Val" bought him when he was born. Its half bear, half blanket and it has his name and birthday on it. I have put this bear/blanket ON his bed out of his reach to keep it nice, as a keepsake. Well, he has begun to take it down and sleep with it. We are now to the point where he HAS to have it when he takes a nap and goes to bed...and he has started wanting to take it out of his bed and bring it with him downstairs. It is VERY cute by the way! He just hugs on it and loves on it.

The second "potential" lovey is his....shoe. Yes, one of his little crocs. Yesterday, he started carrying one shoe around wherever he went...and he wouldn't just carry it, he would put it on his hand and "carry" it on his hand. I desperately need to get a picture of this, as it appears this is going to be a keeper (he woke up this morning looking for his shoe and immediately put it on his hand while eating breakfast etc...).