Meet Blue Blue Blankie.

after much demand (erin) i've decided to create this blog to share stories about logan. logan has aquired the nickname linus from steve & i due to his constant companionship with his favorite blanket, Blue Blue. we've tried several times to get rid of blue blue or trade him in for something new, but repeated attempts were closely followed by repeated rejections. Blue Blue is here to stay, whether we like it or not.

for those of you who haven't had the pleasure of being introduced to 'blue' (as its called around our house) i'll explain a little about it. or him. logan refers to blue as a 'him', and when asked how he knows if a blanket is a boy or a girl, the answer is simple. blue is a boy color, so that makes him a boy. duh mom. blue was a baby gift i got when i was pregnant with logan. actually, i got two of the exact same blanket, so technically there are 2 blue's, one at daycare and one at home. obvisouly the persons who got them for me had no idea that i hate winnie-the-pooh, because the blankets have small squares on the bottom with pictures of pooh and the rest of his annoying gang. when logan was smaller he loved playing with the fringes on the ends of the blanket, and over time became inseperable from it. the blanket has been dragged through dirt, used as a super hero cape, napkin, kleenex, mop, and just about everything else logan has thought of. worst of all, he gets chewed on. i'm not sure why, but logan certinally enjoys it.

now that we've given up trying to persuade logan to let go of blue, we're focusing on trying to get him to stop putting it into his mouth. if we tell him to take it out of his mouth he responds with "i'm going to chew on it when i'm in my bed and the door is closed and you can't see me." smart kid.

mom & dad's attempt of getting rid of blue blue. part one.

on christmas eve steve & i sat down with logan and told him that it would be a really nice thing to do if he left blue under the christmas tree for santa to pick up and take to a little baby who doesn't have a blanket. we tried to bargain, saying that santa would probably even leave a giant remote-controlled trackhoe for him if he let a baby have blue. logan went with the story for a few minutes, and then abruptly rejected it. leaving santa under the tree is a no-go. after winning the battle, logan went to bed happily with blue blue. the next morning, after Logan found his trackhoe he looked at me and said "see, santa gave me a trackhoe anyways, & i didn't even give him my blue."

mom & dad's attempt of getting rid of blue blue. part two.

technically, we weren't actually trying to get rid of blue, we just tried not to go out of our way to accomodate logan & blue's demands. logan loves to try anything he can think of to avoid going to sleep. about a week or so ago he came out of his bedroom, after supposedly going to sleep 45 minutes earlier and told his he couldn't find blue. fed up that he's out of his room steve told him he was going to just have to go to sleep without blue and look for him in the morning. logan was NOT happy. for the next five minutes or so all we could hear coming from logan's room was "blllllllllluuuuueee blllllllllllllluuue where are you? bllllllluuuuue bllllllllluuue i miss you" sob sob, cry cry. over and over, and suddenly the crying stops, and in chipper, clam, doesn't-sound-like-he-was-ever-crying voice we hear "oh, there you are." logan had blue back and was fast asleep within a few minutes.