Sesame Street Friends

I had to post a picture of Will's collection of animals (and a doll) that he carries around with him because it cracks me up. I know kids usually have a favorite stuffed animal (or two) but Will has 12 favorite stuffed animals. The collection has stemmed from his obsession with Sesame Street. Will can't just carry one or two, he has to have all 12 of them at all times. The only problem is that he can't carry all of them at once so in order to bring them into another room, he has to make about six different trips back and forth because he takes them two at a time. He knows exactly how many he should have and if one is missing he runs around the house until he finds it. Sometimes he gets tired of carrying all of them himself and hands them to Eric or I and then grabs our hand and bring us (and the animals) someplace. The stuffed animals have added about 10 minutes onto bedtime because first we have to make sure all the animals are acounted for and then he has to put them in some sort of order on his bed before he will go to sleep.

We are still working on all the sesame street characters names and so far he has three names he can say (in Will language). Cookie=cookie monster, Deo=Elmo and Lala=Abby

And to think that I had been worried that he didn't have a favorite stuffed animal he liked to sleep with. Looks like I don't have to worry about that anymore!

Here he is carrying half of his collection

Transporting the collection to the kitchen