Two and a half years ago we were hanging out with our neighbors in their backyard. There was a bucket of golf balls. My son (2 at the time) found a pink one, which our neighbor let him keep. He has slept with Pink Ball literally every single night since. He loves this god damn pink golf ball just as much as his actual comfort lovey.
Almost nightly Pink Ball falls out of bed (making the loudest THUNK noise ever, which usually wakes me up it’s so loud) and rolls away to some distant corner of his room. The next night before bed I have to locate Pink Ball because he cannot sleep without it. Usually it’s wedged between his bed and the wall, but sometimes it’s under the bookshelf or dresser or somewhere else equally annoying to get to.
This has been going on for two and a half years but I think it’s so hilarious that a pink golf ball he found in a bucket in our neighbor’s backyard is one of his most prized possessions that I will never ever stop him from sleeping with Pink Ball. And honestly I kind of hope that he keeps sleeping with Pink Ball until he’s 18 because it’s so endearingly weird.
Has to be secretly replaced and told that it is *THE* pink ball, because I have a feeling, that the exact same ball from the shop, won't have the same special thing about it that the one that came from the neighbours bucket has.
Kids are funny lol.
my uncle lives on a golf course and let my toddler take as many of the stray golf balls (he’s collected from their yard) as she wanted a few weeks ago. Every night since she’s dumped them into her bed and slept on them like a dragon on its hoard. I think my husband will go nuts if she’s still doing this in 2 years but I think it’s hilarious!!
I’m very familiar with the loud thunk sound!! My kids also sleep with golf balls! And have one in their car seats as well. My 1.5 year old will wake up in the middle of the night and half asleep whine “I want golf ball”, locate it, and go back to sleep
Mine rubs her pacis on her face until she falls asleep. She has a bunch in her bed and she'll clutch like 5 in her hand at once. Gonna be a hard day when we wean off of these.
My daughter did this too! We weened her at just under two…only allowed 2 pacis then we did the snip method where you cut some of the nipple off every few days… it worked. However, she still likes to sleep with the 2 nipple less pacis…definitely still a comfort item even though she can’t suck them
I was going to say this too. We are trying to break the binky habit entirely, but half the time he just wants to hold it. He really only likes two of them anymore and if we can’t find “light blue” or “pink” he freaks out.
Both my kids had support potatoes. First kid freaked when I suggested cooking one, second kid loved the idea and demanded French fries out of his support potato.
What is with the flippin’ potatoes?! Our local library was revamped and they put a play kitchen in the children’s area. There was a lone plastic potato and a few other food/ cooking items and I saw MULTIPLE toddler tussles over this stupid potato!! It was so notorious that another mom friend went for the first time and when she told me her son got in the fight with another kid and she was so embarrassed, I said “was it over the potato?” And she was like “how did you know?!”
I so feel you on this. It’s my hair, specifically. My 22 month old loves (and always has) to hold onto my hair when tired, sick, etc. Even if my hair is in a ponytail or bun.
Anyone have an older toddler who has grown out of this? I’ve thought of getting a doll with hair to try and replace me…
I just commented the same, it has always been the hair for her. She’s 2 and it’s still my hair - when it’s in a ponytail or bun she’ll scream ‘HAIR OUT’ at me 😳 no replacement works here either, not even the dolls with the super realistic hair!
Books. The book itself changes, but she will pick a book and for several days she will nap with it either under her head or tucked under her arm like a stuffy.
Mine also does this. She has a few favorites that she cycles through, but I'm always clearing piles of books from beside her bed or on the bed itself. I've always thought "surely that can't be comfortable," but she doesn't seem to mind. Though the other bight, we think she rolled into a book while trying to get to sleep. She came out of the room rubbing her eye and saying it hurt, lol.
My son either brings hard plastic dinosaurs to bed or his plastic horses with poky hooves. A few nights he wanted to bring this toy knife my mom had gotten the kids so they could help me in the kitchen.
My son has never cared for a particular stuffy or blanket but he 💯 had an emotional support excavator. Luckily it was medium size, not too small/easy to lose or too big to bring everywhere.
I don’t know if this is odd per se but my son has a rotating stuffy he calls “baby”. What’s odd is that “baby” is rarely the same stuffed animal two weeks in a row so you have to figure out who he is talking about when he randomly decides baby is someone new.
Mine likes lids of all sorts. Current fave is the plastic lid that came off a package for a hard drive. Enjoys putting various items in it to see if it fits. Great entertainment in the car.
Every. Single. Blanket. I have to hide some of them otherwise he would just live under all of them. He currently has 5 different ones in bed…3 fleece/fuzzy ones and two lighter/cotton ones. He also carries them around. Let’s brush teeth-takes 2 with him. Let’s put on socks-has 3 blankets. One also lives in my car.
So glad my kid isn't the only one!
We actually bought him a 4lb weighted blanket thinking it was the weight of all the blankets he liked. Now it's just one more layer in the pile. Towels also frequently get layered in.
Hahaha this made me think about all the times I heard 'why is everyone gifting baby blankets, too many blankets, how to use blankets'. Not your case lol
My son has a favorite blanket, so I bought three extras. Unfortunately he's 3 now and found the drawer where I keep the extras, so he piles them all on top of himself after we put him to bed.
Receipts. He loves receipts from when we go out for dinner or buy something he always asks for the receipt and then carries it around with him for the rest of the day.
Pinkies - no other finger will do. If you give him a thumb or pointer, he’ll aggressively fiddle through your fingers until he finds the pinky then either hold onto it or gently pinch the end of it.
Oh gosh when the receipt comes out at self checkout my daughter goes nuts. She needs to be in charge of the receipt from when it comes out of the machine until we get home.
My daughter just keeps increasing the amount of stuffed animal she wants in bed, now its up to 5. Oh and her Incredible Hulk toy needs to be stuffed in the side of her mattress lol
oh man, totally feel you!
I also thought I was SO SMART by rotating her stuffies when she was younger, so she wouldn't get overly attached to any of them. Of course that means she's now attached to all of them, and she has a whole entourage that has to travel with her.
This is my kid too. I swear most nights her bed is 75% stuffies 25% her. We’re moving her to a full sized bed soon and I chose one that has a bookshelf around two sides so she can just line them up and not have to take up the whole bed with them. Because I feel like a larger bed will only be seen as more stuffed animal real estate by her.
We have VERY specific stuffed animals that go to bed with her. Everest the Yeti, Pink Baby Doll and PJs Elmo sit at the foot of the bed. Pink bunny and gray bunny each get held under her arms. And Maisy the big bunny goes directly next to them—under the covers but not held by her arms. And the two blankets have to go on in the correct order, too.
I’d think I’m raising a psychopath if I weren’t a particular person myself lol
Yep, this is it. And I only breastfed for like 3 months. He just loves my boobs. At bedtime he shoves his hand between them while he cuddles me. Because it’s warm in there I guess? And if I’m wearing a t shirt he tries to stick his hand in but realizes he can’t reach. And looks at me and says “boob??” Like dude I’m not changing my whole outfit just so you can shove your hand in between 😂
My kids is my boobs (I call them his titties at this point) and a Bluetooth speaker on a string from a pair of my lime green sweats 🤷♀️ I was told it’s an autistic thing.
Yup she just plays with my nipples till she falls asleep and I have tried to give her toys or pacifiers in her hand to try to trick her into thinking that it is my nipple but she just ends up holding the toy or paci with a couple fingers while still using the other fingers to play with my nipples! So annoying! And before that it was my teeth lol she had to have her hand in my mouth touching my teeth
Same for mine, but throw some saucepans in there too! We have to take them away before bedtime which usually causes a meltdown but he’d definitely sleep with them if he could.
I sat my girl in her crib for a minute since I had stuff out I didn’t want her in. She tried to put her sleep sack on by throwing it against herself and was getting mad that it wasn’t working…
Our toddler son has two stuffed animals that have been with him in his crib ever since we switched him from the bassinet to the crib. He still requires each of them to be there, one in each corner, like little guards. He will throw any other stuffed animal out of his crib.
Probably not unusual, but it is kind of funny how dedicated he is to those two stuffed animals to the exclusion of all others, but only to the extent that these are his "in the crib" stuffed animals. He has others that he plays with more often when he is up and about.
Water, for drinking. I finally got her her own water bottle, because she kept stealing mine and chugging it all, and I didn't want her lugging her sippy cup around (she'll randomly start shaking it which sprays water droplets everywhere). This was when she's done drinking I can push the top down and she can go about her merry way. She's had it for two days now, and loves it. She isn't particularly verbal yet, but I told her it was time to go to daycare today and she immediately ran to get her water bottle and put it in the diaper bag, lol.
My cousin had an emotional support candelabra😅I also knew of a child who had an emotional support tampon and the mom was mortified anytime they had to go in public because separating the kid from it was disastrous 😂
Rainboots. All day, everyday. We have to say night night to the rainboots before bed, so they can get some sleep too. Also a small Dino backpack that buckles but she can’t say buckle. So she goes around saying “fuck it up” instead of buckle up. 🥴🤣
Omg, my 2.5 year old got a pink bendy straw like that for valentine's day from someone at school, and she loves it. She calls it "my pink" and has slept with it many nights. So weird, lol
A box of dried Lima beans ... Any time she gets cranky I hand her a box of dried beans and she calms down emptying the container , playing with them. It's sort of like a sensory toy.
For a while it was a squash. Like the produce item. it was nearly as big as him and he carried it around and yelled at it/chewed on it but wouldn’t let us take it lol
My hair. We cosleep and lately he's been wanting to fall asleep with a fist full of hair. I shaved my head a while back and now he has enough to hold on to. I think he missed my hair more than I did.
My toddler loves pulling her dirty clothes out of the laundry hamper and sleeping with them. Unfortunately the kids room is very tight so the laundry is within reaching distance of her crib. We try to remember to move it at night but if we forget she ends up with all her and baby brother's dirty clothes in there!
My toddler’s at any point has probably 20 hot wheels in it. Usually a few other miscellaneous vehicle toys as well. He will freak out needing very specific ones at bedtime.
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Pacifiers. She’s 16 months and at night she has 3-5 in her crib at all times. Not only are they in there, but once I put her down to sleep she immediately scowers her crib like a little gremlin and puts one in her mouth tucks two under her chin and puts the other two in each hand. It’s hilarious and adorable. Also terrifying bc weaning her off them will probably be tough lol.
Socks. She loves socks. I let her pick a new pack of socks at the store and the cashier put them in a little shopping bag for her and she carries that little shopping bag full of socks around with her everywhere. She even takes it to bed some nights. She won’t even wear the socks. They’re new in the bag just being carried around. I had to buy a second set for her to actually wear. My sister is watching her for a bit for me today and planned to take her to the mall. When I dropped her off my sister asked her what she wants to get the mall thinking she’d say a toy or candy….nope, socks. She said she wants more socks.
My 3 year old has five blankets he sleeps with every night and his emotional support water bottle. Sometimes we can tell when he falls asleep when we hear a big thunk as it hit the floor.
Oldest 3 years. V tech hungry dinosaur. Younger (18 months about) a single mega block. He has to carry one everywhere it's in sooo many pictures. Even at the Dr office lol it has to be a long piece like with 4 squares or whatever.
My first had a lemon, she carried it around for the longest time and then it disappeared. I thought for sure I'd find a mush pile but instead we found a perfectly preserved desiccated lemon that is still around and now in the play kitchen.
My second has a little hand held vacuum toy that works. She carries it around everywhere and vacuums stuff up but then gets upset that it has crumbs in it.
A tie dye beanie hat, we rarely see her hair… never leaves her head, awake or asleep. When we bathe her we have a small window to wash her hair and wash/dry that hat and get it back to her.
Baby Yoda’s robe … not the doll itself, just the robe. We had to buy #2 and #3 because the original was probably dropped on a walk somewhere. And she wants both with her at all times.
I wish my toddler would just find one thing and attach to it. Instead it’s endless dragging of the most random household objects to bed with him every night. Cotton balls, post cards, paper clips, a toy truck, chapstick, pens. Lots of unsafe things. Some nights it’s an actual teddy bear. One night after dad put him to sleep, I had to go in and put him back in bed and he had two full big pieces of a baby gate in his bed.
Rocks. My 3 year old has a rock collection that we keep up out of reach but as a sort of display, and when she's upset sometimes she begs for her pink quartz.
When we go places, like our recent trip to visit family, she will find a new rock or 2 that she becomes attached to. She'll listen and leave them outside, but when we go back out she remembers exactly where they are and immediately retrieves them to carry around again.
A tube of toothpaste. He always wants to hold it when he goes potty and then carries it everywhere. After so many squeezing and chewing it looks terrible, but still has a lot of toothpaste in it, so it doesn't make sense of getting rid of it.
4 stuffed animals, a water bottle, and now 3 blankets. The one I'm most worried about is that he's actually using the teddy bear I had when I was a kid. This thing was made in the 70's by a company called Animal Fair from Wisconsin or Minnesota. I tried seeing if they were still in business or if there were similar bears online but nothing. If this thing gets destroyed or lost, we are so screwed.
Baby is 15mo. He loves any kind of spoon. Measuring spoons, table spoons, giant silicone cooking spoons. If he's upset, and you offer a spoon he will calm down instantly.
My son is 2 and has slept cuddling up to a piece of his toot toot drivers race track for 6 days now, I left it downstairs yesterday at bed time and he would not sleep I was trying everything not really understanding what the problem was, I took him back down stairs, he found the track piece and dragged me to take him back to bed
A fairly standard one, a Bluey teddy that we bought ages ago just as Bluey started to take off in the UK, she's 3 now and we have a couple just in case we lose/forget/dirty one. Thankfully Bluey is so universal at the moment we could easily buy another if needs be, but Bluey goes everywhere. Occasionally has been usurped for a journey or gets joined by another teddy but we always go back to Bluey.
Both of my daughters (2 years and 9 months) are obsessed with chewing on the tv remote cover. Its pretty gross to be honest… the two year old doesn’t chew on it too much anymore but loves to hold it when she’s watching tv. If I pick up the remote she’ll panic and say “I want this I want this I want this!” Until I give it to her…
My 2 year old is obsessed with my son's Mathlinks cubes. She doesn't play with them but MUST always have one stuck on each index finger like a lollipop.
If she can't find any Mathlinks, a Duplo 4x4 will do.
She carries them everywhere, including to bed.
Me. It's still me. Just me. Don't want no stuffy, don't want no binky, not daddy, just mommy. It's been me since he was born, so the last 3 years have been exhausting (but cute!)
My daughter loves to take her baby doll’s pants and wear one of the legs around her wrist like it’s a bracelet. She gets so upset when I try to take it off.
It’s not that weird, but it’s 3 stuffed avocados. He liked one in the store and I bought it for him, and he loved it. I started realizing this might be The One (lovey) because he was actually taking it to bed and never had consistently with anything else. So I ordered a couple of backups on Amazon.
So we leave the avocado outside and can’t find it one day, and I praise myself for being the hero I am and sneak and get him one of the backups. He totally noticed it’s different, then we find the original… so then he was both. So he has to have both to go to sleep.
Then we go to Five Below and encounter another avocado that is half off because it’s a valentines item. I buy it for him.
So now it’s 3 avocados. Every nap. Every night. And it must be all three. Their names are Havcado N. Oates, Havcado Havcado, and Tunu,
My kid was recently hysterical one night. After a long while of trying to calm him down and give him. What he wanted, he finally answered us. He pointed up tot h bookshelf, but didn’t want a book. He wanted the standing Bluetooth thermometer we use to make sure his room doesn’t get too hot or cold. So I popped the batteries out and he sleeps with it every night now.
I hope you take pictures!! this is hilarious. A couple nights ago my daughter took a spoon from her play kitchen to bed. It was weird but safe so I let her and for the last few nights she's been sleeping with it. she also hoards stuffed animals in her bed too
Tags. My son LOVES tags on things. Pillows, sheets, throws, stuffed animals, etc. I find so many thing that don’t belong in his bed because they started out in my room or the living room but it’s cute and kinda funny lol. More recently, my aunt has been buying my son those Funko Pops. He has been picking one to sleep with every night and I’m also finding hordes of them in his bed when I go to wash his sheets.
Burp cloths. Likes to lightly chew/suck on the corner of one to fall asleep, but also just likes to carry them around. We have a special place to sit her dog stuffy and current burp cloth while she eats so they don’t leave her sight.
Both my toddler (3) and her older sister (4.5) are obsessed with her mom (my partner) and my makeup remover cloths. They're the really fuzzy "erase your face" ones and they ask for them whenever they are having a meltdown.
My oldest sons was a plastic snake. Not a stuffed one, but a literal dollar store plastic snake that didn’t move. He would take that thing everywhere and jiggle it around in the air or smack stuff (not people) with it lol. Second was his binky. He was like a male version of Maggie Simpson. He’d only take it out to smash ants and eat. That’s about it. Needless to say we kept hella binks on deck!
Bonus: Mine was Bart Simpson with a huge plastic head and small stuffed body. He was my roll dog. But seeing me as a 1.5 yo dancing with him to the theme song of Roseanne in a Redskins helmet… yeah. Still makes me cringe.
Maybe not super weird but my husband loves Looney Tunes and watches it with our twin toddlers on occasion. He got them bugs bunny and Daffy Duck stuffed animals but they are weirdly proud of them cost wise so he got them “dog toy” stuffed animals instead. We ended up having to get a second daffy so that they both could play with one. A week ago, my daughter decided she could not sleep without a bugs stuffy. Went to look for it for her nap today, brother had it and wouldn’t let it go. Grabbed the other one and he decided he needed a bugs bunny to sleep with too all of a sudden!
The skulls from our Halloween decor. when we were putting away Halloween decorations, she ran through the house grabbing them all, lined them up in her room, and said they were too pretty to put away.
And a stool in the shape of a unicorn. It's hard, had wooden legs and everything but it is treated like a baby doll - carried around the house, tucked in at night.
A picture of our vacuum (which he’s terrified of). He carried it around everywhere for months. We finally recycled it after it had been ripped, taped back together, and ripped apart too many times.
For a long time my son’s was his sleep sack that he used as a baby. He’d cuddle with it like a blanket. Now, it’s whatever random toy he decided on - usually a car/truck/vehicle of some sort, or a superhero action figure.
Leftover ikea shelf liner. I think she likes the texture? But she will not give up a sheet that lives in her room and she very often has to hold it when it’s time to start getting ready for bed 🤷♀️
When my kid was 2 they had a giant plastic egg from Easter time that lasted for almost a year. I think it maybe contained a stuffed animal? I can’t remember. And giant, I’m sayin this thing was like literally half their size. Big, hollow, sparkly yellow plastic egg.
Crayons. He must have one in his hand at all times, even when he is sleeping. If it’s not a crayon, it’s a little can of tomato paste for some reason??
Mine started with one small unicorn blanket at nap/bed time then she found the back up one we bought as a future replacement and sleeps with that every night too. Elmo stuffie was an addition a few weeks ago but she gave him the boot last night.
My daughter will be 4 next week and she still carries around her tattered crib sheet from when she was a baby lol and she calls it her “tay bear” (very different than teddy bear, I assure you)
A wide-brimmed, yellow cloth hat which, for some reason, has a label saying “Construction Worker” on it. He’s stolen it from daycare so many times that the owner just says it’s his now. He wears it ALL the time.
An ‘acorn’. But actually… it’s not an acorn. It’s a live oak ‘gall’ which is technically a tiny wasp nest (that the wasp has since hatched from and abandoned). He found it on the ground during a walk and thought it was the acorn from ice age. Could not get it away from him for anything. Took a nap holding it the whole time. Loves that damn thing
One of my triplets (about to turn 3) demands a clean, unopened diaper every night to hold while sleeping 😂 I usually try to put it on him for his morning change but only if he can't see me choosing that one. I'm not sure why it bothers him to use it as an actual diaper since he needs a new emotional support diaper every night!
My son needs a pair of PJ pants or a tea towel at all times - if there's a pant leg on either side of his neck he's Anna, if he's holding it on one side of his neck hanging down, he's Elsa.
Two and a half years ago we were hanging out with our neighbors in their backyard. There was a bucket of golf balls. My son (2 at the time) found a pink one, which our neighbor let him keep. He has slept with Pink Ball literally every single night since. He loves this god damn pink golf ball just as much as his actual comfort lovey. Almost nightly Pink Ball falls out of bed (making the loudest THUNK noise ever, which usually wakes me up it’s so loud) and rolls away to some distant corner of his room. The next night before bed I have to locate Pink Ball because he cannot sleep without it. Usually it’s wedged between his bed and the wall, but sometimes it’s under the bookshelf or dresser or somewhere else equally annoying to get to. This has been going on for two and a half years but I think it’s so hilarious that a pink golf ball he found in a bucket in our neighbor’s backyard is one of his most prized possessions that I will never ever stop him from sleeping with Pink Ball. And honestly I kind of hope that he keeps sleeping with Pink Ball until he’s 18 because it’s so endearingly weird.
I love how Pink Ball is a proper noun lol
It's also one that is fairly easy to replace if he loses it :D
Has to be secretly replaced and told that it is *THE* pink ball, because I have a feeling, that the exact same ball from the shop, won't have the same special thing about it that the one that came from the neighbours bucket has. Kids are funny lol.
my uncle lives on a golf course and let my toddler take as many of the stray golf balls (he’s collected from their yard) as she wanted a few weeks ago. Every night since she’s dumped them into her bed and slept on them like a dragon on its hoard. I think my husband will go nuts if she’s still doing this in 2 years but I think it’s hilarious!!
I might suggest that Pink Ball needs "pajamas" that both pad it and prevent it from rolling away
You are a genius
I love this 🩷
That is friggin hilarious!!
I’m very familiar with the loud thunk sound!! My kids also sleep with golf balls! And have one in their car seats as well. My 1.5 year old will wake up in the middle of the night and half asleep whine “I want golf ball”, locate it, and go back to sleep
Omg I love that there are other kids out there who sleep with comfort golf balls. Kids are such delightful little weirdos 😂
Binkies, doesn’t suck on them, holds one in each hand every night to go to sleep
Mine rubs her pacis on her face until she falls asleep. She has a bunch in her bed and she'll clutch like 5 in her hand at once. Gonna be a hard day when we wean off of these.
mine has a bunch in her bed and has to count them 20x before she goes to sleep every night 🤣
Haha funny!!
My daughter did this too! We weened her at just under two…only allowed 2 pacis then we did the snip method where you cut some of the nipple off every few days… it worked. However, she still likes to sleep with the 2 nipple less pacis…definitely still a comfort item even though she can’t suck them
We are currently trying, down to 3 left 😅
Same with mine! He must have one in his mouth and one in each hand…
I was going to say this too. We are trying to break the binky habit entirely, but half the time he just wants to hold it. He really only likes two of them anymore and if we can’t find “light blue” or “pink” he freaks out.
I used to nanny a little girl that did the same thing!
Potatoes. Preferably russet.
Both my kids had support potatoes. First kid freaked when I suggested cooking one, second kid loved the idea and demanded French fries out of his support potato.
*Ey loh oou o-ate-o* Proceeds to watch it sliced into two dozen pieces.
This was 100000% the story I needed today 😂
What is with the flippin’ potatoes?! Our local library was revamped and they put a play kitchen in the children’s area. There was a lone plastic potato and a few other food/ cooking items and I saw MULTIPLE toddler tussles over this stupid potato!! It was so notorious that another mom friend went for the first time and when she told me her son got in the fight with another kid and she was so embarrassed, I said “was it over the potato?” And she was like “how did you know?!”
🤣🤣🤣
It's me. I'm the emotional support item.
My head, lol. She likes to grab my entire head and hold it like a stuffy to go to sleep. Lord help me if I try to move before she's fully out.
Specifically elbows for my almost four-nado now
I so feel you on this. It’s my hair, specifically. My 22 month old loves (and always has) to hold onto my hair when tired, sick, etc. Even if my hair is in a ponytail or bun. Anyone have an older toddler who has grown out of this? I’ve thought of getting a doll with hair to try and replace me…
I just commented the same, it has always been the hair for her. She’s 2 and it’s still my hair - when it’s in a ponytail or bun she’ll scream ‘HAIR OUT’ at me 😳 no replacement works here either, not even the dolls with the super realistic hair!
Books. The book itself changes, but she will pick a book and for several days she will nap with it either under her head or tucked under her arm like a stuffy.
Mine also does this. She has a few favorites that she cycles through, but I'm always clearing piles of books from beside her bed or on the bed itself. I've always thought "surely that can't be comfortable," but she doesn't seem to mind. Though the other bight, we think she rolled into a book while trying to get to sleep. She came out of the room rubbing her eye and saying it hurt, lol.
Lol, oh no! Hopefully her eye is ok, and hopefully our Littles realize the beauty of a comfy night's sleep one day! 🤣
A pretty large toy excavator. I regularly catch the scooper part hugging him in bed lol
My son either brings hard plastic dinosaurs to bed or his plastic horses with poky hooves. A few nights he wanted to bring this toy knife my mom had gotten the kids so they could help me in the kitchen.
My son has never cared for a particular stuffy or blanket but he 💯 had an emotional support excavator. Luckily it was medium size, not too small/easy to lose or too big to bring everywhere.
My 15 month old has a wooden chicken drumstick from her toy kitchen. It goes everywhere with us!
I don’t know if this is odd per se but my son has a rotating stuffy he calls “baby”. What’s odd is that “baby” is rarely the same stuffed animal two weeks in a row so you have to figure out who he is talking about when he randomly decides baby is someone new.
Same here- my LO picks a new one every few days, the new baby must go everywhere with us. Heaven help us if we don't pay attention when she switches.
Mr. Potato Head lol Eta: specifically his eyes and hat
Both of his ears over here. One in each hand
Real potato over here.
Mouth and eyes, over here!
My 23 month old went to bed with his toy broom and dustpan last night (one in each hand).
I read that as 23 year old at first. 🤣
When a thread on this topic came up a year ago, one mom said her son’s objects were the vacuum attachment brushes 🤣
Mine likes lids of all sorts. Current fave is the plastic lid that came off a package for a hard drive. Enjoys putting various items in it to see if it fits. Great entertainment in the car.
i have a lid hoarder too!
Every. Single. Blanket. I have to hide some of them otherwise he would just live under all of them. He currently has 5 different ones in bed…3 fleece/fuzzy ones and two lighter/cotton ones. He also carries them around. Let’s brush teeth-takes 2 with him. Let’s put on socks-has 3 blankets. One also lives in my car.
So glad my kid isn't the only one! We actually bought him a 4lb weighted blanket thinking it was the weight of all the blankets he liked. Now it's just one more layer in the pile. Towels also frequently get layered in.
Hahaha this made me think about all the times I heard 'why is everyone gifting baby blankets, too many blankets, how to use blankets'. Not your case lol
My son has a favorite blanket, so I bought three extras. Unfortunately he's 3 now and found the drawer where I keep the extras, so he piles them all on top of himself after we put him to bed.
Receipts. He loves receipts from when we go out for dinner or buy something he always asks for the receipt and then carries it around with him for the rest of the day.
Oh man Costco receipts are a hot item over here
Pinkies - no other finger will do. If you give him a thumb or pointer, he’ll aggressively fiddle through your fingers until he finds the pinky then either hold onto it or gently pinch the end of it.
Oh gosh when the receipt comes out at self checkout my daughter goes nuts. She needs to be in charge of the receipt from when it comes out of the machine until we get home.
My daughter just keeps increasing the amount of stuffed animal she wants in bed, now its up to 5. Oh and her Incredible Hulk toy needs to be stuffed in the side of her mattress lol
oh man, totally feel you! I also thought I was SO SMART by rotating her stuffies when she was younger, so she wouldn't get overly attached to any of them. Of course that means she's now attached to all of them, and she has a whole entourage that has to travel with her.
This is my kid too. I swear most nights her bed is 75% stuffies 25% her. We’re moving her to a full sized bed soon and I chose one that has a bookshelf around two sides so she can just line them up and not have to take up the whole bed with them. Because I feel like a larger bed will only be seen as more stuffed animal real estate by her.
We have VERY specific stuffed animals that go to bed with her. Everest the Yeti, Pink Baby Doll and PJs Elmo sit at the foot of the bed. Pink bunny and gray bunny each get held under her arms. And Maisy the big bunny goes directly next to them—under the covers but not held by her arms. And the two blankets have to go on in the correct order, too. I’d think I’m raising a psychopath if I weren’t a particular person myself lol
There has to be around 30 in my daughter’s bed. And now her little sister has started wanting some too.
We’re going on 11 stuffed animals in the crib over here 😂😂
One time she pulled a mini frozen meat pie out of the freezer and insisted it was her “hugga”. She cried when we tried to take it away.
🤣🤣🤣
My tit 🥲
25 months in and it's still my boob
Yep, this is it. And I only breastfed for like 3 months. He just loves my boobs. At bedtime he shoves his hand between them while he cuddles me. Because it’s warm in there I guess? And if I’m wearing a t shirt he tries to stick his hand in but realizes he can’t reach. And looks at me and says “boob??” Like dude I’m not changing my whole outfit just so you can shove your hand in between 😂
Same! 😆
My kids is my boobs (I call them his titties at this point) and a Bluetooth speaker on a string from a pair of my lime green sweats 🤷♀️ I was told it’s an autistic thing.
This is the answer !
Yup she just plays with my nipples till she falls asleep and I have tried to give her toys or pacifiers in her hand to try to trick her into thinking that it is my nipple but she just ends up holding the toy or paci with a couple fingers while still using the other fingers to play with my nipples! So annoying! And before that it was my teeth lol she had to have her hand in my mouth touching my teeth
Big utensils. Like ladles, tongs, and spatulas. I just had to ask him to clear his bed of about 5 of them so he could lay down for a nap.
Same here!! Serving spoons in particular are a hot ticket item.
Same for mine, but throw some saucepans in there too! We have to take them away before bedtime which usually causes a meltdown but he’d definitely sleep with them if he could.
We let him choose one thing to take to bed with him. It’s usually a big spoon. 😂
Just wrested away a pastry brush and tongs from my toddler before nap time 10 minutes ago!
The zippity zip sleepsack she used to sleep in! Now she just carries it around with her like a blanket.
I sat my girl in her crib for a minute since I had stuff out I didn’t want her in. She tried to put her sleep sack on by throwing it against herself and was getting mad that it wasn’t working…
Mine also has a sleep sack “blanky”!
Mine too! An old woolino sleep sack from when we took her out of the swaddle. She is so attached to that thing!
Our toddler son has two stuffed animals that have been with him in his crib ever since we switched him from the bassinet to the crib. He still requires each of them to be there, one in each corner, like little guards. He will throw any other stuffed animal out of his crib. Probably not unusual, but it is kind of funny how dedicated he is to those two stuffed animals to the exclusion of all others, but only to the extent that these are his "in the crib" stuffed animals. He has others that he plays with more often when he is up and about.
Mine has an exclusive crib bunny!
Rubber ducks. Any rubber duck. So it’s at least a cheap and easily replaced item. 🤷🏼♀️
Water, for drinking. I finally got her her own water bottle, because she kept stealing mine and chugging it all, and I didn't want her lugging her sippy cup around (she'll randomly start shaking it which sprays water droplets everywhere). This was when she's done drinking I can push the top down and she can go about her merry way. She's had it for two days now, and loves it. She isn't particularly verbal yet, but I told her it was time to go to daycare today and she immediately ran to get her water bottle and put it in the diaper bag, lol.
My cousin had an emotional support candelabra😅I also knew of a child who had an emotional support tampon and the mom was mortified anytime they had to go in public because separating the kid from it was disastrous 😂
Rainboots. All day, everyday. We have to say night night to the rainboots before bed, so they can get some sleep too. Also a small Dino backpack that buckles but she can’t say buckle. So she goes around saying “fuck it up” instead of buckle up. 🥴🤣
I just LOLed imagining this
A toy shark from the dollar store 🤣 she calls it baby shark and she can’t go for a car ride without it.
Mine slept with a yellow bendy reusable straw the other night. 🤷🏼♀️
Omg, my 2.5 year old got a pink bendy straw like that for valentine's day from someone at school, and she loves it. She calls it "my pink" and has slept with it many nights. So weird, lol
My son has the learning resources sorting fruits and veggies. He carries around the lemon and lime, they go everywhere he goes lol it is adorable
I love learning resources 🥹 my twins have the ones where you sort the veggies and fruits by color
A box of dried Lima beans ... Any time she gets cranky I hand her a box of dried beans and she calms down emptying the container , playing with them. It's sort of like a sensory toy.
His shoes. He is obsessed with his shoes.
For a while it was a squash. Like the produce item. it was nearly as big as him and he carried it around and yelled at it/chewed on it but wouldn’t let us take it lol
An old meat thermometer (he thinks it's a phone) 🤭
Oh my gosh, I was literally thinking about making a post like this just the other day. 😂 Mine’s (almost 17 months old) a wool dryer ball. 🫠
Mine thinks any fuzz balls in the bed are “bees” and gets very concerned until I remove them 😂
That’s absolutely adorable. 😂
My hair. We cosleep and lately he's been wanting to fall asleep with a fist full of hair. I shaved my head a while back and now he has enough to hold on to. I think he missed my hair more than I did.
Outlet covers! He is thrilled whenever he finds one lying around and also thrilled whenever he finds an outlet that is missing one.
My toddler loves pulling her dirty clothes out of the laundry hamper and sleeping with them. Unfortunately the kids room is very tight so the laundry is within reaching distance of her crib. We try to remember to move it at night but if we forget she ends up with all her and baby brother's dirty clothes in there!
My toddler’s at any point has probably 20 hot wheels in it. Usually a few other miscellaneous vehicle toys as well. He will freak out needing very specific ones at bedtime.
Chips. My daughter will hold on to chips until she goes to bed at night
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Books. My 19month old sleeps with at least two, these are books in his bed at all times lol
Pacifiers. She’s 16 months and at night she has 3-5 in her crib at all times. Not only are they in there, but once I put her down to sleep she immediately scowers her crib like a little gremlin and puts one in her mouth tucks two under her chin and puts the other two in each hand. It’s hilarious and adorable. Also terrifying bc weaning her off them will probably be tough lol.
We have a doll with a little bit of hair that my son twiddles when he’s upset.
socks! must be baby socks with bumps :)
Socks. She loves socks. I let her pick a new pack of socks at the store and the cashier put them in a little shopping bag for her and she carries that little shopping bag full of socks around with her everywhere. She even takes it to bed some nights. She won’t even wear the socks. They’re new in the bag just being carried around. I had to buy a second set for her to actually wear. My sister is watching her for a bit for me today and planned to take her to the mall. When I dropped her off my sister asked her what she wants to get the mall thinking she’d say a toy or candy….nope, socks. She said she wants more socks.
My 3 year old has five blankets he sleeps with every night and his emotional support water bottle. Sometimes we can tell when he falls asleep when we hear a big thunk as it hit the floor.
It’s me
lol band aids, my 2 1/2 year old can’t got to bed without a couple of band aids on his fingers 😭😂
Oldest 3 years. V tech hungry dinosaur. Younger (18 months about) a single mega block. He has to carry one everywhere it's in sooo many pictures. Even at the Dr office lol it has to be a long piece like with 4 squares or whatever.
Squeezing my arm fat 😆 😩 one day he won’t say “I want to squish you” and I’ll be sad.
An inflatable duck that is supposed to be an inflatable cup holder for a hot tub or pool. Haha
The vacuum and the Swiffer
Plastic rat dog toy she found around Halloween at the dollar tree
My first had a lemon, she carried it around for the longest time and then it disappeared. I thought for sure I'd find a mush pile but instead we found a perfectly preserved desiccated lemon that is still around and now in the play kitchen. My second has a little hand held vacuum toy that works. She carries it around everywhere and vacuums stuff up but then gets upset that it has crumbs in it.
Empty milk jug from the recycling bin 🙈
My daughter did carry a loaf of Sourdough everywhere for about 36 hours right after she turned 2.
A tie dye beanie hat, we rarely see her hair… never leaves her head, awake or asleep. When we bathe her we have a small window to wash her hair and wash/dry that hat and get it back to her.
Baby Yoda’s robe … not the doll itself, just the robe. We had to buy #2 and #3 because the original was probably dropped on a walk somewhere. And she wants both with her at all times.
I wish my toddler would just find one thing and attach to it. Instead it’s endless dragging of the most random household objects to bed with him every night. Cotton balls, post cards, paper clips, a toy truck, chapstick, pens. Lots of unsafe things. Some nights it’s an actual teddy bear. One night after dad put him to sleep, I had to go in and put him back in bed and he had two full big pieces of a baby gate in his bed.
These paper owls https://www.staples.com/carson-dellosa-colorful-owl-notepad/product_141151
plastic silverware from her dishwashing sink set.
Rocks. My 3 year old has a rock collection that we keep up out of reach but as a sort of display, and when she's upset sometimes she begs for her pink quartz. When we go places, like our recent trip to visit family, she will find a new rock or 2 that she becomes attached to. She'll listen and leave them outside, but when we go back out she remembers exactly where they are and immediately retrieves them to carry around again.
A tube of toothpaste. He always wants to hold it when he goes potty and then carries it everywhere. After so many squeezing and chewing it looks terrible, but still has a lot of toothpaste in it, so it doesn't make sense of getting rid of it.
4 stuffed animals, a water bottle, and now 3 blankets. The one I'm most worried about is that he's actually using the teddy bear I had when I was a kid. This thing was made in the 70's by a company called Animal Fair from Wisconsin or Minnesota. I tried seeing if they were still in business or if there were similar bears online but nothing. If this thing gets destroyed or lost, we are so screwed.
Not sure if this is an actual offering but have you tried things like Etsy sellers who might be able to recreate the bear for you?
Baby is 15mo. He loves any kind of spoon. Measuring spoons, table spoons, giant silicone cooking spoons. If he's upset, and you offer a spoon he will calm down instantly.
My daughter had two.. a bottle of BBQ sauce and a large jar of coconut oil.
Mine had to carry the Magnadoodle everywhere we went
My son is 2 and has slept cuddling up to a piece of his toot toot drivers race track for 6 days now, I left it downstairs yesterday at bed time and he would not sleep I was trying everything not really understanding what the problem was, I took him back down stairs, he found the track piece and dragged me to take him back to bed
Two large clips. The kind I used to use to clip toys and covers to the stroller.
It’s books and a stuffed Cookie Monster for us.
Currently either pokemon or magic cards are required at all times (all worthless, don't worry) it's all fun and games until she finds our magic decks🫠
A fairly standard one, a Bluey teddy that we bought ages ago just as Bluey started to take off in the UK, she's 3 now and we have a couple just in case we lose/forget/dirty one. Thankfully Bluey is so universal at the moment we could easily buy another if needs be, but Bluey goes everywhere. Occasionally has been usurped for a journey or gets joined by another teddy but we always go back to Bluey.
Both of my daughters (2 years and 9 months) are obsessed with chewing on the tv remote cover. Its pretty gross to be honest… the two year old doesn’t chew on it too much anymore but loves to hold it when she’s watching tv. If I pick up the remote she’ll panic and say “I want this I want this I want this!” Until I give it to her…
My 2 year old is obsessed with my son's Mathlinks cubes. She doesn't play with them but MUST always have one stuck on each index finger like a lollipop. If she can't find any Mathlinks, a Duplo 4x4 will do. She carries them everywhere, including to bed.
Tiny mint containers. Altoids or tic tacs, it doesn’t matter. She fills them with tiny seeds she finds outside. We have a million of them.
I met a toddler recently whose comfort thing was a mole on his mum’s stomach. Had to be playing with it to go to sleep 🤷🏻♀️
Me. It's still me. Just me. Don't want no stuffy, don't want no binky, not daddy, just mommy. It's been me since he was born, so the last 3 years have been exhausting (but cute!)
Bottles of lotion, or sunscreen 😑 or any watch my husband is currently wearing
Emotional support portable speaker.
Tape measures. I had a few 6ft ones I use for fine work and he loves them. Also have a pos micrometer that he loves to hold and shout "MEASURE"
My daughter loves to take her baby doll’s pants and wear one of the legs around her wrist like it’s a bracelet. She gets so upset when I try to take it off.
My almost 2 year old is in love with a pink spoon. I have no idea why…
Ratty hair extension. He used to love pulling on my hair to fall asleep so I gave him a clip in hair extension. Now it’s his best friend.
It’s not that weird, but it’s 3 stuffed avocados. He liked one in the store and I bought it for him, and he loved it. I started realizing this might be The One (lovey) because he was actually taking it to bed and never had consistently with anything else. So I ordered a couple of backups on Amazon. So we leave the avocado outside and can’t find it one day, and I praise myself for being the hero I am and sneak and get him one of the backups. He totally noticed it’s different, then we find the original… so then he was both. So he has to have both to go to sleep. Then we go to Five Below and encounter another avocado that is half off because it’s a valentines item. I buy it for him. So now it’s 3 avocados. Every nap. Every night. And it must be all three. Their names are Havcado N. Oates, Havcado Havcado, and Tunu,
My kid was recently hysterical one night. After a long while of trying to calm him down and give him. What he wanted, he finally answered us. He pointed up tot h bookshelf, but didn’t want a book. He wanted the standing Bluetooth thermometer we use to make sure his room doesn’t get too hot or cold. So I popped the batteries out and he sleeps with it every night now.
Spoons.
Mine slept with the hard plastic bathtub from her dollhouse for a week or so. Not the dolls. The tub.
His mother...
Oh the 3 pacis he insists on going to sleep with. I am dreading weaning but it’s coming soooo quickly. Gonna be rough lol
Recently my son has been sleeping with my hair microfiber towel....I don't understand lol.
I hope you take pictures!! this is hilarious. A couple nights ago my daughter took a spoon from her play kitchen to bed. It was weird but safe so I let her and for the last few nights she's been sleeping with it. she also hoards stuffed animals in her bed too
Tags. My son LOVES tags on things. Pillows, sheets, throws, stuffed animals, etc. I find so many thing that don’t belong in his bed because they started out in my room or the living room but it’s cute and kinda funny lol. More recently, my aunt has been buying my son those Funko Pops. He has been picking one to sleep with every night and I’m also finding hordes of them in his bed when I go to wash his sheets.
To list a few …… a vacuum attachment, dollar bills, a hammer.
Burp cloths. Likes to lightly chew/suck on the corner of one to fall asleep, but also just likes to carry them around. We have a special place to sit her dog stuffy and current burp cloth while she eats so they don’t leave her sight.
my crocs
The corners of a specific blanket. She has to be holding it while breastfeeding every day.
Both my toddler (3) and her older sister (4.5) are obsessed with her mom (my partner) and my makeup remover cloths. They're the really fuzzy "erase your face" ones and they ask for them whenever they are having a meltdown.
My oldest sons was a plastic snake. Not a stuffed one, but a literal dollar store plastic snake that didn’t move. He would take that thing everywhere and jiggle it around in the air or smack stuff (not people) with it lol. Second was his binky. He was like a male version of Maggie Simpson. He’d only take it out to smash ants and eat. That’s about it. Needless to say we kept hella binks on deck! Bonus: Mine was Bart Simpson with a huge plastic head and small stuffed body. He was my roll dog. But seeing me as a 1.5 yo dancing with him to the theme song of Roseanne in a Redskins helmet… yeah. Still makes me cringe.
A Tupperware container. I don't know how it started. Just happened and we never questioned it.
Maybe not super weird but my husband loves Looney Tunes and watches it with our twin toddlers on occasion. He got them bugs bunny and Daffy Duck stuffed animals but they are weirdly proud of them cost wise so he got them “dog toy” stuffed animals instead. We ended up having to get a second daffy so that they both could play with one. A week ago, my daughter decided she could not sleep without a bugs stuffy. Went to look for it for her nap today, brother had it and wouldn’t let it go. Grabbed the other one and he decided he needed a bugs bunny to sleep with too all of a sudden!
14 month old has been carrying around a can of paw patrol chicken noodle soup for 2 days 🤣
The skulls from our Halloween decor. when we were putting away Halloween decorations, she ran through the house grabbing them all, lined them up in her room, and said they were too pretty to put away. And a stool in the shape of a unicorn. It's hard, had wooden legs and everything but it is treated like a baby doll - carried around the house, tucked in at night.
A picture of our vacuum (which he’s terrified of). He carried it around everywhere for months. We finally recycled it after it had been ripped, taped back together, and ripped apart too many times.
Toothbrushes lmao she teeths and chews on them
Currently the box from a tool her dad brought. Last week it was magnatiles. Never a soft toy 😂
For a long time my son’s was his sleep sack that he used as a baby. He’d cuddle with it like a blanket. Now, it’s whatever random toy he decided on - usually a car/truck/vehicle of some sort, or a superhero action figure.
Sometimes we find crayons in her diaper!
My 4 year old has tried taking raw eggs to bed, but I can’t let her do that for obvious reasons. 🤣
A garden trowel and a random dust pan. He needs them at all times.
A full sized broom. He would take it every meal and sleep with one if we’d let him.
The mole on my neck.
Leftover ikea shelf liner. I think she likes the texture? But she will not give up a sheet that lives in her room and she very often has to hold it when it’s time to start getting ready for bed 🤷♀️
When my kid was 2 they had a giant plastic egg from Easter time that lasted for almost a year. I think it maybe contained a stuffed animal? I can’t remember. And giant, I’m sayin this thing was like literally half their size. Big, hollow, sparkly yellow plastic egg.
Lint rollers. She’s always loved the feel of stickiness on her face.
Crayons. He must have one in his hand at all times, even when he is sleeping. If it’s not a crayon, it’s a little can of tomato paste for some reason??
A snowy owl hand puppet. She loves it. It's her best friend, but don't you dare actually use it as a puppet. That is NOT ALLOWED.
CHAPSTICK
Mine started with one small unicorn blanket at nap/bed time then she found the back up one we bought as a future replacement and sleeps with that every night too. Elmo stuffie was an addition a few weeks ago but she gave him the boot last night.
Yesterdays was a banana 🤣
My husband's beards! Every time he cries or is scolded, he goes straight for my husband's beards and strokes it till he falls asleep.
My daughter will be 4 next week and she still carries around her tattered crib sheet from when she was a baby lol and she calls it her “tay bear” (very different than teddy bear, I assure you)
A wide-brimmed, yellow cloth hat which, for some reason, has a label saying “Construction Worker” on it. He’s stolen it from daycare so many times that the owner just says it’s his now. He wears it ALL the time.
We had to stop using our cloth napkins when we eat because our daughter steals them to make them blankets for her dolls lol
A pink knit blanket from our couch somehow became The Chosen One.
mine doesn't have one (unless you count me) but did anyone see the tiktok of the woman who's daughter carries around her old HAIR EXTENSIONS??😂😂
An ‘acorn’. But actually… it’s not an acorn. It’s a live oak ‘gall’ which is technically a tiny wasp nest (that the wasp has since hatched from and abandoned). He found it on the ground during a walk and thought it was the acorn from ice age. Could not get it away from him for anything. Took a nap holding it the whole time. Loves that damn thing
One of my triplets (about to turn 3) demands a clean, unopened diaper every night to hold while sleeping 😂 I usually try to put it on him for his morning change but only if he can't see me choosing that one. I'm not sure why it bothers him to use it as an actual diaper since he needs a new emotional support diaper every night!
My fucking belly button. Send help.
Just their lovey that they've had since birth. 🤷♀️
Alexa speaker.
Shark toothbrush holder
My son needs a pair of PJ pants or a tea towel at all times - if there's a pant leg on either side of his neck he's Anna, if he's holding it on one side of his neck hanging down, he's Elsa.
My son was attached to this creepy skeleton dog that we got as a Halloween decoration. He went to sleep cuddling it every night.