Blanket Statement

When I was a baby my mom used to cover me up with a yellow blankie and say "night night!" Soon the yellow blankie was known to me as Night-Night, and I carried it everywhere. I slept with it until...well, if you must know, I slept with it until a few weeks after Betty was born. Last summer I put Night-Night away for practical reasons related to nursing and just never got it back out again. I pulled Night-Night out today while packing and am trying to decide the proper place for a well-loved blankie to spend its retirement.

Meanwhile, despite already being a devoted thumb-sucker, Betty may be finding a blankie of her own. The thing is, we never actually cover her with a blankie. As helicopter parents, of course we use sleep sacks. Like a 21st-century Linus, Betty is showing signs of an attachment to her sleep sack, pulling it out of her crib and cuddling with it on the floor.