"Stuff" Bumblebee

Let me introduce you to Hayden's new best friend.
This is Bumblebee, Stealth Bumblebee to be exact. Hayden got him for Christmas and up until a week or two ago, he didn't really care that much about him. He'd play with him occasionally when Jackson was playing with Transformers, and he'd take him some places because he wanted to be like his brother and Jackson can't leave the house without a toy, but in the last two weeks, Stealth Bumblebee or "Stuff Bumblebee" as Hayden calls it, is now Hayden's new best friend.

Hayden has learned from his older brother that when you single out a toy as your favorite toy it has to go everywhere with you. Everywhere. AND you have to sleep with it. We have taken "Stuff" with us every time we go to the car, to Grandmas and even inside the library and the store. I knew he was developing a serious attachment when he said he wanted "Stuff" in his bed to sleep with and then it stayed there.

He usually says he wants to sleep with a toy, mostly because Jackson sleeps with about 5 toys in his bed, and then when he lays down he promptly throws them onto the floor. But not "Stuff". This one has stayed in the bed for 3 days, and is now on his pillow just waiting for Hayden to smack his head on him when he flops around in his sleep. I have snuck in to his room and put it on the floor so he wouldn't roll onto it, but then he'll wake up in the middle of the night and come in my room saying he "Lost Stuff Bumblebee."

You can imagine the trauma we experienced the other day when we couldn't find "Stuff" anywhere. I looked for that thing all morning and he whined about it all morning. Every other sentence was, "Where is Stuff Bumblebee? Are you looking for it Mom? Did you find it?" I thought it was lost forever but then finally, finally, after Hayden went down for a nap and I went to make myself some lunch, I found it--in the pantry!

I was so happy, and then I realized he probably left it there when he was trying to sneak some treats without Mommy knowing. Stinker.