What's the strangest thing your kids have taken to bed?

I think the orange from the play food set is our new winner. If I try to return it to the basket of play food, Bea gets all upset and says "ooos" and signs orange and wants to put it back in her crib. I've also been waking up to "Oooos!!", as it has rolled out of the crib in the morning. Ainsley wants to take wipes with her, but I refused. She's going through a weird wipe stage where she wants to carry one around all the time. Previously, our winner was that snowman Christmas ornament, and they each wanted the grapes from the play food one night, luckily there are two of them.

 

Jade sleeps wearing her polka dotted "beach hat."

 

I think the winner in our house is dominos. But there are many close seconds such as rubber lizards and plastic dinasaurs (yes I have girls). The weirdest thing is that the girls often sleep in my bed and so I wake up with critters of all shapes and sizes.

 

The boys have taken their golf bags to bed (plastic) or the attachments tubes from the vacuum..... Strange kids!!!

 

Baby Spoons...

My son sean thinks its funny to collect them, put them in the shopping cart and push them around...one night he had to take them all to bed..I think there were about 15 or so...I went up there to check on him, and there he was with all his spoons surrounding him like a protective barrier... :laughing:

 

Yeah, mine now take a wipe and/or a tissue with them almost every night, LOL. For the most part mine just want to take books, plus all their stuffed animals/babies that stay in their cribs all the time. A few times they have wanted to go to bed wearing bibs. :laughing: Strange little creatures, two-year-olds!

 

Mine just started wanting to bring a toy to bed with them. So far, I've kept a couple of plastic animals from their Noah's Ark set in their room and I'm able to trade any unsafe selection they've made for the plastic animals. They have a lot of choking hazard cars courtesy of the inlaws and I refuse to let them have those in bed (and this is what they usually choose, of course). So far, they trade without fussing most of the time because getting to have a toy at all is a new treat and they understand "no cars in bed, here's an elephant, what does the elephant say?". They are so busy making elephant sounds that they forget all about the car. I usually find them in the morning bouncing their animals around the crib and giggling at each other which is a nice switch from them removing their clothing as soon as they wake!

 

Mine have taken mostly toys to bed so nothing really weird. Kira when she was 2 always took a pasta cook book to bed, it had no pictures in it either so I don't know why she liked it so much. That lasted for over a month until I convinced her to take something else.

 

No really wierd things for my girls, but my friend at work has a daughter who likes to take anything she receives as a gift to bed with her. Even new clothes. She is just so grateful that she doesn't put gifts down all day, then insists on sleeping with them during the night. She has slept with her new dollhouse, a little suitcase she got just before they went away to Toronto, and the badminton set they got for the back yard. I think it's hilarious!

 

They also went through a short phase when they brought a wipe with them. Other than that nothing really strange... just lots and lots of stuffed toys and books.

 

My oldest daughter was one ODD kid - she loved science,nature, lizards & snakes. I was in college when she was a preschooler & one of my class mates had created a science project that he gave to Jessica. It was a cat skull in a Pyrex cube. All the parts of the skull were labeled with the bone names. 4 year old Jessica LOVED her cat skull in Pyrex. She carried it everywhere & slept with it every night. She could recite all the scientific names of the bones. She left it in a restaurant one night & I had to call the restaurant & ask "Did anyone find a cat skull in a Pyrex cube?" Luckily I was able to drive to the restaurant & pick it up so my girl could sleep!

My twinkies love to sleep with Thomas the Train Take Alongs. Because they are metal with edges I take them out of the bed & put them on the window sill so they can get them in the morning.

 

The cutest/weirdest phase was when Mari had to collect every cow-related item in the house and sleep with it. She has a stuffed cow she named Peter, and she (yes, Peter's a she) was Mari's binky buddy (build-a-bear toy with the binky stuffed inside). One day she decided Peter was lonely and needed friends: the Little People farm cow, a smaller stuffed cow, a few other plastic cows, and a small stuffed donkey (??? maybe she was collecting ruminants?).

 

[SIZE=12pt]Blake LOVES the wisk at the moment. He will just carry it around with him all day and of course he has to sleep with it too!

On a side note, last weekend I finally pulled the changing pad off of the dresser to put away in storage and proped it against his bed and forgot about it. I put him down for a nap and when I went in to check on him he and pulled it into his crib and was sleeping under it!! He is a crazy kid! LOL[/SIZE]

 

My girls went through a phase when they had to take a big pile of panties to bed with them. They wanted to take them in the car and out and about as well! At night, if some of them fell out of the crib we'd wake up to cries of "My panties! My panties!" Of course, they didn't want to actually wear them yet. We let them take the panties to bed and in the car, but I couldn't let them take them into stores and to playdates! That would be too much! I'm talking armfuls of about 15 panties a piece!

Now one twin in mostly potty trained so she doesn't carry them around anymore. The other twin who hates the idea of going on the potty is still carrying the panties around some.

 

Both boys went through a phase (at different times) of taking the couch throw pillows to bed. Mostly they have toys. Right now Nick has about 20 matchbox cars and a huge little tykes car carrier (doesn't fit the short side of the crib). Alex loves the tunafish can strainer (why I don't know) and the corn on the cob butterer thing so those sometimes ends up with him in bed.

 

Some of these are just hilarious... a cookbook? a cat skull? I'm laughing just thinking about these! Somehow we've avoided this phase so far. Before they go to bed, I ask them to leave whatever they are playing with on the coffee table. They've never had a problem with that (I'm sure I would have let them take most things with them if they really wanted). However, because they leave behind their favorite things, they have to say goodnight to each and every one of them before going to bed. So, they go around the playroom and living room saying "night, night bear. night, night spoon. night, night crayons." I'm thinking it would be easier if they took them to bed (not the crayons, of course!)... it would definitely take less time

 

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My girls went through a phase when they had to take a big pile of panties to bed with them. They wanted to take them in the car and out and about as well! At night, if some of them fell out of the crib we'd wake up to cries of "My panties! My panties!" Of course, they didn't want to actually wear them yet. We let them take the panties to bed and in the car, but I couldn't let them take them into stores and to playdates! That would be too much! I'm talking armfuls of about 15 panties a piece!

Now one twin in mostly potty trained so she doesn't carry them around anymore. The other twin who hates the idea of going on the potty is still carrying the panties around some.


OMG! :rotflmbo: Thank you for the laugh! That's the funniest thing I've ever heard.

 

keys. ethan does NOT sleep in his bed without a set of keys!!!

 

A pot -- actually, the bottom half of a steamer set. It is THE pot, for when they're throwing up, and after any bout with a virus, Rosalie wants to keep it in bed with her for a couple of weeks.

 

I am totally cracking up about the cat skull. :rotflmbo:

We have avoided this phase so far. Amy sleeps with a terrycloth drool bib, but that's been going on for months -- it's just her standard lovey. (When she gets upset during awake time, she has to wear it around her neck like a cape.)

I have resisted letting them take anything to bed -- it never even occurred to me to let them -- but that may be because they haven't really insisted yet. One time I did let Amy go to her nap with a book, but she napped really badly that day -- may have been coincidence, but I haven't let her do it again. Otherwise, even the things they are really attached to have to get left behind when it's time to go brush teeth. Then we go straight to the bedroom without passing through the room where all the toys are.

 

Lets see/ They have taken, spoons, pinwheels, rocks, pinecones, pails, tissues, hats, backpacks, playdough in the shape of animals, my knick knacks, pictures, and of course a huge assortment of toys.

 

Jesse just HAD to bring a straw to bed earlier this week. He had been playing with it all evening and wasnt about to give up such a good time just for the sake of bedtime !

 

And I though my DD was strange for wanting to sleep with a plastic pick-up truck! I finally had to take it away because I got sick of her crying "Car! Car!" every time it fell out of the bed. She tries to "sneak" her purse into bed with her, but I always make her leave it in the living room. She carries it everywhere with her and picks up random things throughout the day to put in it. You wouldn't believe the stuff I've had to clean out of it!

My DS is perfectly happy with his BoBo (teddy bear) and his eeny (blanket), but also has to have these when he isn't in bed.

 

These are really funny!


Our strangest item is a Turkey Head. :icon_eek: Before you get grossed out it's made a foam. It was the head to a piñata from Thanksgiving. We had a special Thanksgiving dinner with all the foriegners who work at the university. And this one guy made this great Turkey piñata. The girls really liked it, and while they had seen many piñatas before, they were quite tramatized when we all started bashing it. Gabby was crying and one guy picked up the head, which had fallen off and gave it to her. It was about half as tall as her and very ugly with bulging eyes. She loved it, and had to sleep with it for about a month afterwards.

 

Amelia loves to sleep in her Daddy's Texas A&M hat! Future Aggie????

 

Too funny! So far, mine have just brought more and more stuffed animals to bed with them-Katelyn had five in there tonight and Jessica had their standard three. Jessica is obsessed with "cook" and wants this soft spoon and bowl with her at all times so she can cook soup and chicken, lol. She's tried to take it to bed, but I've refused so far.