This is my sweet boy Porter when he was about 7 months with a blanket that my mom made him. My mom is a wonderful Grandma who has made a special blanket for each of her grand babies. We mothers get to pick out the materials and design and she lovingly makes a beautiful heirloom.
I remember picking out the material for this blanket. We were living with my mom at the time because we had moved out of our house in preparation to move to Utah. We went to an old fabric store that was probably opened in the days of the pioneers off of Main Street in Mesa. It didn't take long for me to find what I was looking for. The train design was perfect. I was lucky enough to get to quilt it with her. We had a wonderful time working side by side on the blanket.Hayden never took to his blanket but Porter sure has. From the beginning Porter has dragged that blanket all over the place. He LOVES it! The poor blanket has been threw it all... its been , taken camping, taken to school for show and tell, taken to doctor visits, thrown up on, peed on, turned in to a superman cape and loved to pieces. My mom has mended it several times and it has been washed hundreds off times and now it is really falling apart. Today I looked at it and almost wanted to cry. Some of it is beyond repair and the fabric on the back is getting so thin it is worn through in places. What do I do??? I can't take it away from him, he would freak out and go through serious withdrawals. I can't let it fall all the way apart because I want to save it for him. I just don't know what to do. I could try to fix what I can but it will just get worse. Does anyone have any suggestions on weaning kids off blankies? He will be 6 in May, is he getting to old for it? I haven't had to deal with this one yet.
This is how Porter sleeps every night. Snuggled in his blanket and all other covers squished to the end of the bed. He refuses to use any other blankets or covers except for his blankie. I have to go back after he is asleep and cover him back up. But inevitably when I get him up in the morning its back to just that blanket again.
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2 comments:
Cute blanket. It's too bad it's getting so tattered.
I had a blanket when I was younger and it got really bad, my mom ended up making a pillow-ish kind of thing and enclosed the blanket inside like the stuffing. That way I still had my blanket but it was more portable. Does that make sense?
Dont take it away. I still have a banket that I sleep with and I am much older than 6. Granted I don't have a baby blanket, but it is just a soft blanket that I love and I fall asleep much better with it. Maybe try taking him to the fabric store to pick out his own material and make him a new comfortor, something that he can't drag around as easily. When I was young I had a blanket too. My mom and grandma would cut from the edges to patch the middle until my blanket was the size of a hankerchief.
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