Thursday, July 22, 2010

Gilbert

Cam got this blue monkey when he was born from a friend of Marks. His name is Gil, so we decided Gilbert was a perfect choice for the stuffies name. Now this stuffy has the softest fur with such a light color that we decided he would live on the side of the changing table, away from all dirty hands and teething mouths. In his 18 months of life, Cameron has never been a stuffy-type of boy. Every now and then he'd give his Glow Worm a hug or try and share his paci with his Elmo, but that was about it. Until the other night.

It was a Sunday night, after a fun Cape Cod weekend with our best friends, and Cam woke up crying at around midnight. I wasn't up for trying to ease him back to sleep, so into our bed he came. At around 4 that morning, I woke up to a fussing Cammy in a puddle of puke, on my pillow. With me still on it. Yum. So I brought him to his changing table to get him cleaned up and he was in the best mood! You would never have thought that he was sick! With all his energy, we decided that the day was starting then. As we got ready to leave the bedroom, he reached out and grabbed Gilbert, and I swear, right then he made a new best friend.

Since that day, Gilbert doesn't leave his side. He hugs him to sleep, feeds him food from his shopping cart, gives him rides on his firetruck and kisses him to a sloppy mess all day long. He even brings us diapers to put on him! I love seeing him play with this little monkey on his own, without Mark or myself having to ask him to do it. I think his imagination is starting to form, which is just precious. Maybe now all those stuffed animals that he received as an infant will finally get some use!



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