Double Fisting

Miss M sleeps with three special "lovies" (small, silky blankets with animal heads attached). Not one, not two, but three - two Target variety, and one random. She adores her security blankets, and I must admit that I adore seeing her sleep clutching one, with the little satin ribbon wrapped around her fingers (something I used to do as a child as well). Cute! Anyway...

This morning I pulled her out of bed and she was a little cranky. She's been out of sorts every morning this week since we finally stopped giving her a morning bottle (she is not very happy about that). She pulled one lovie out of bed with her, took a little milk out of her sippy cup, and decided to walk around her room. She made a beeline for the crib and asked for her second lovie (almost identical to the first), which I freed for her. She spent the rest of the morning, and the car ride to daycare, and the walk to the classroom, and the time getting settled at daycare, clutching both lovies, one in each hand - the green one in the left hand and the pink one in the right. Breakfast was the only thing that made it OK to put them down, and even then she wanted to hold them in her lap as she ate. She's never done this before. I guess sometimes you just need to feel a little bit more comfortable, a little bit more secure.