dilemmas in parenthood.

she is seriously the cutest thing ever.

and now has a fascination with the camera, likes to say 'cheese' as big as she can, and then look at the picture i just took of her. she is also trying really hard to say, 'Lucy'.... it sounds kind of like 'i-cy'. =)

as far as parenting goes- we pretty much breezed through Lucy's 'infancy'. 

she was seriously the BEST baby ever!

slept great- ate ever 3-4 hours- was and is still super social, loves people, healthy, etc...

honestly- you can see how i'm scared to have another one?

my luck is sure to end soon.

well- i think it has.

Lucy has entered 'toddlerhood'.

I can take the tantrums, the coming and going of biting (as soon as i bite her back she stops for a few months- but just recently bit me again! the turd. i bit her back, and it stopped again... huh.), among other grand things she is going through right now.

we have a major problem though.

MAJOR.

Her blanky.

When she was like a month old I found this old dolly blanky of mine. I guess my grandmother had made this for our dollys when we were little. It was super little, thin, and I lovingly gave it to Lucy to start carrying around with us, because I thought it was so cute!

Here is the blanket in January-- yes she was like 11 months old, and that was only like 10 months ago.

Here it is now:

You can't really tell in this picture- but it is no longer pink- more of a grey color. it has holes all over it, it is in about 6 pieces- this is the 'big' one, which is about 5 inches wide.

Long story short... Lucy is OBSESSED with it!

and it is totally dying!

But really- like 3 times in the last week she has woken up in the middle of the night crying because she can't find it in her crib! (because it is so small and is slowly withering away!)

I go in there and she is like patting down her whole bed searching under blankets, her pillow, etc.... saying, "no, no, no".... she is just beside herself with grief searching for this blanky- as soon as I find it, bam... she is fine, lays back down and right back to sleep.

She likes other blankys, sure-- but nothing compared to his one. we did sew it back together a few months ago, but it jut fell apart again.

I currently have 2 'big' pieces of the blanky and she seriously clutches to it for dear life.

She holds the whole blanket tucked away in her chubby fist, and smells it, and rubs it against her face in order to calm her down. 

I can't describe it- but she is in love with this blanky. and it is really sweet, but I'm really worried because...

Give it like 2-3 weeks and this thing will be dead! Gone.

What do I do?

help!

and just cute lucy at cheer practice the other day... she LOVES pom poms. =)