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Attachment to kitty a little too...attached

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Nolan has been carting around his bedraggled kitty since he was about three months old. "Kitty" was actually once a very handsome faux feline, complete with a beanbag for warm-up in the microwave.

Now, woefully, he is a one-eyed, rumpled eyesore. I can't get him away from Nolan long enough to wash him, so currently his mottled fur is covered in spaghetti sauce and banana-strawberry vegetable juice. He smells like death but Nolan loves him.

Kitty gets thrown over the edge of the crib every morning, to signal Nolan's daily arrival into the land of the awake. Kitty must accompany Nolan in his high chair, in the car, at storytime, for walks in the park. My kid seems to be increasingly attached to kitty, and now insists that kitty come with him into the bathtub every night, with disastrous results for the cat.

The other morning I left for daycare without kitty in the car, and we weren't more than 5 minutes away from the house, when a pathetic little voice in the backseat started reminding me,"Keee.Keeee." Of course. Kitty. And we had to go back and get him.

Does your child have a favourite stuffed animal? I am hoping the Internet will tell me that Nolan will cease to carry this thing around by the time he is 16.

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