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by sassandspice
”A portrait of our children, once a week, every week, in 2013″
Lily loves her (NICI) Tiger. It’s her comfort toy, her best friend, her constant companion. She won’t go to sleep without him and he even goes to daycare. She has had him since birth. Correction: She thinks she has had him since birth, as we lost her original Tiger in Malaysia.
We were half way down a mountain on a bus when sudden panic set upon us as we realised Tiger wasn’t on board. After frantically ringing around various bus companies to see if anyone had picked him up, we started to give up hope until we learnt that there was a NICI store in KL which sold Tiger.
Lily sobbed herself to bed that night, waking up every half an hour calling out for her beloved Tiger. She just didn’t understand why her best friend wasn’t around for the first time in her life.
So even though we were still broken from the night before, we woke up super early to go to the NICI store in KL, but we left even more broken when we found out he was sold out. But my parents came to the rescue, as they happened to be meeting us the next day, and picked up a similar looking Tiger from the NICI store in Singapore. And even though initially, Lily kept turning her nose up at his ‘new’ smell and throwing him out of her bed, she eventually warmed up to him when we came back home.
Before having kids, I never would have thought I would have this much drama over a soft toy whilst on holiday. And after losing the original Tiger, we thought maybe we made a mistake with getting her so attached to him. But he became our comfort too, knowing that she would stop crying as soon as he was around and fall asleep. Knowing that she had something familiar when she was away from us at daycare and helping her during her separation anxiety.
And when she yells out ‘TIGER’, I throw him to her and she nuzzles his arm, and I know it is one of the purest forms of love. And hopefully this form of love will develop with real friendships in the future
Do your kids have comfort toys or blankets? Did you ever have one growing up?
Linking up to the Che and Fidel’s 52 portrait a week challenge
We are onto our 3rd CR bunny in a particular pattern.
X 2 lost at the airport on different occasions by yours truly.
I’ve just bought another 4 but in different patterns as you can’t get the one we had/have anymore.
The 3rd will not leave the house and we will trial the other to see how we go.
What are we thinking when we keep giving the child one particular toy?!?!? Oh well. It’s kinda cute too!
Aww I can really see Abi with a bunny! I have a lion and a cheetah from the same company but different sized tigers but she knows the difference!
How adorable! I had a small pillow as a safety blanket as a child. It went with me e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e, local and international. Until it fell to pieces, literally. Hahaha
Awww I’ve never heard of a comfort pillow before. At least it would have been useful on the plane!
What a sweet sweet story! My daughter had a baby doll that she carried with her everywhere. We made sure we had several of them just in case….
I’ve learnt my lesson and bought some more tigers too!
I love that you recognise the love she has for her tiger and let her have it at the (shock) age of 2! My kids have only ever been attached to my boobs so they aren’t that easy to loose but if they did get attached to anything I’d let them have it! And why do they always go missing on holidays, the times you need it the most! I remember being 12 and my sister leaving her snugly at Brisbane airport we didn’t realise until we had been driving for an hour so turned around and searched but it was gone.
That is handy that your kids were attached to something that you would need loose! I don’t what it is about holidays either. Perhaps because the routine goes out of the window and you are out and about frequently and often carrying multiple bags, so it becomes very easy to forget something!
Logan is just attached to his dummy(ies). One in the mouth the other in his hand. What age did Lily really start to attach to Tiger?
At around 8 and a half months. The same time she started self-weaning and attending daycare. So major change in her life!
Bebe is attached to London Olympic muscat, which we picked in last minute sales! .it goes everywhere with us, and I am worried if we loose it there is no replacement in Japan! So going to check Amazon!!
It’s such cute photo of Lily with her tiger, babies from so early know all about the attachment and caring feelings through these cute friends…I find it so cute when they hang onto their lovely dovey attachment things
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Oh how cute! It’s going to be hard to find a replacement (being a unique item) so best to start buying them off eBay before they disappear everywhere!
That’s so sweet! The older two had comfort toys but Eve has never bonded to any particular toy, sometimes I wish she would.
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Such a sweetie and so happy that you were able to find a replacement