J Myster And His Blanket

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When I was working at KNAZ I had a co-worker of mine give me a wonderful baby gift and I was only about 9 or 10 weeks along. She gave me the cutest little Nike baby socks and this beautiful white silk and fuzzy blanket. Its fuzzy on one side and has a duck sewn into the corner of the blanket and silky on the other side. My son has had this blanket along with many other blankets in his crib or pack n play since birth but he's always taken to this blanket. I think its because he loved the silky feel to it. As he got older and as his friend CB had a favorite blanket that she had to bring to my house, I would deter him from trying to steal her blanket by showing him he had a special blanket too. My son will be turning three in March and since he was about a year old, him and his blanket have been inseparable. Of course we can get by from taking it out on outings with us, but this blanket has had many washings. Its seen the ugly side of vomit, poop, been dragged in the dirt at the zoo, made its trek to California with us on vacation, seen the beach and the sand and kept my baby warm after a day in the surf, and its been everything to this little guy.
So last night when I was reading my J Myster a story before bed, he fell asleep in my arms. At that time blankie was on our bed because he was watching Mickey Mouse Club House while I took a shower, and then at bed time we forgot it. Now if J Myster was awake when we tucked him in, there was no way he would have let us forget that blankie. But he wasn't awake and it was forgotten, left on our lonely bed while the hubs and I fell asleep and camped out on the couch together downstairs with Baby B.

At 3 am this morning the terror in my little guy's voice from the top of the stairs would have struck fear in any parent. With his voice trembling and cracking and as shrill as it could possibly be, "Dadda Dadda where banket, where banket go!?" J Myster just sobbed at the top of the stairs. Hunky Hubs jumps up and runs up the stairs to show J Myster that daddy put it on him right before we went to sleep last night.

I could just see the poor guy remembering that he didn't go to bed with it and even though he was covered with it, he probably sat up looking for it among the sheet and two other full length blankets that cover his bed at night and not understanding it was right there all along. I don't know when he will out grow his blanket but for right now if its a source of comfort for him, I am not about to take that away from him.

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