blankets

For anyone who has known Tatum for any amount of time, you know that she loves her blankets!  She has 6 fleecy/silky blankets and slept with then nightly!! When she was little, we never left the house without one or two of these blankets.  Her love of these started when she was tee-niney in the NICU.  Actually- the first time I held her, I was using one of these blankets.  Everyone of her blankets have a story and we LOVINGLY remember where each of these blankets came from.  We even had professional pictures made at 1 year old with one of these blankets....

Fast forward to about a month ago:  Tatum got a BIG GIRL bed from my dad.  And that first night she slept with the blankets.  And I think that was the last night.... She didn't need them anymore.  What happened to not being able to sleep without all 6 blankets??  I wish I could remember the last night she wanted her blanket(s)- wish I had taken a picture to remember when she obviously grew up over night.  This past week, we cleaned up her room and boxed up some things that we didn't play with anymore.  We boxed up some dolls and toys that were mine from childhood that she is gonna save for her babies.  I washed all the blankets and asked if she wanted to out them away.  She said she wanted to save them for her babies, but wasn't ready to put them in a box but didn't want to sleep with them- could we just put them where she could see them if she needed them.

Whew- there's still hope she's not grown yet! And I'm so glad that she didn't want to box these blankets up- I think I need them!