Gracie has a Pooh Bear lovey that she carries around everywhere, and I do mean everywhere she goes! She also has to have Pooh immediately if she gets hurt, embarrased, or tired! I have always been able to keep up with Pooh Bear until recently and we have certainly had some serious scares. First, we were in Wal-Mart last Friday doing that fun weekly grocery shopping, when she decided that she is too big for the buggy...I knew this day was coming but I was hoping it would be more like after Colton makes his arrival. Finally, I let her walk with me and she does good but gets easily distracted, she had to have Pooh Bear to walk with her, even though Mommy tried over and over again to tell her that Pooh really needed to stay in the buggy. As we are finishing up with our groceries on my favorite aisle...ice cream aisle...I noticed that she didn't have Pooh Bear, so I frantically started looking all over the buggy and it wasn't there, so I asked her "Where is Pooh Bear" and she replied with "I don't know" and even shrugged her shoulders. At this point I felt like I had lost a child, yes that is how important Pooh Bear is. I started back tracking all through the store and still couldn't find it and finally I decided we would have to go to customer service to see if someone had been nice enough to turn it in, so we went back down the Easter Candy aisle, yes they already have Easter stuff out and when we past the suckers...there sat Pooh Bear on the shelf! I was so relieved and she picked it up and started hugging Pooh Bear. Even though she is 2, I tried to explain to her that she has to keep up with Pooh Bear or give it to Mommy! It was a great grocery shopping day!
Second time Pooh went missing was Saturday, yes the very next day...Are you seeing a pattern? I knew that Pooh Bear was in the house because she hadn't been outside with it. Hayden and Gracie were both in the car buckled up because we were going to eat dinner with friends. Mark and I were frantically running around the house looking in all the famous hiding spots that we usually find Pooh Bear and I was going crazy because I knew it had to be somewhere in the house. Finally, we went outside with flashlights, yes it was already dark and searched all around the yard and still nothing. After about an hour or so, Mark told me that I had to give up because we had to go meet our friends and eat! I wasn't happy about it because I knew she was going to be asking for Pooh Bear especially since she was tired and riding in the car but I decided that we would stop at Wal-Mart and try to find a replacement until we could find Pooh Bear. We ate dinner and then I ran in Wal-Mart and got a replacement, which I figured she would trow back in my face because it was blue and an elephant, but it was all I could do at this point. When I got back to the car she was very pleased with her new elephant and immediately went to sleep with it! Mark asked me if she would have put Pooh Bear in our dog's cage that he had given to our next door neighbor earlier in the evening and I thought about it for a minute and realized that yes, she had been playing with the cage earlier in the day! At last hopefully Pooh Bear was at our neighbor's house, so on the way home we stopped at our neighbor's and there was Pooh Bear in the cage with the dog! Hip Hip Hooray! I was so relieved, but apparently our neighbors thought that it was one of the dog's toys...it was soaking wet with slobber and very dirty, so before I told her we had found it, I stayed up while everyone else was sleeping soundly to wash and dry Pooh Bear before morning! The next morning she decided that she really liked elephant and didn't need Pooh Bear, I must say I was disappointed but I knew she would eventually change her mind, so I packed Pooh Bear in my purse so I would have it. As of today she carries both Elephant and Pooh Bear around everywhere we go! Oh well maybe I have a better chance of keeping up with one of them!
It is amazing how attached they get to things...Gracie has had Pooh Bear since she was 3 months old and she loves it so much and even though she loves Elephant too...I don't think she will ever truly replace Pooh Bear!
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