The Horror

deakon loves his "night-night" so much

he thinks the purpose of it is to make holes and pick out all of the batting so he can roll it around in his fingers while he sucks his thumb. after choosing this blanket and insisting on doing this to it, my mom started patching it every time he would come over to be watched. it became a work of art. BUT... after being away from home for 9 months... with me, who has no desire to learn how to use a sewing machine, this became the fate of the beloved blanket:

AND... that picture doesn't even show all of the tiny holes for ones fingers to stick into. right after i took this picture, i ended up cutting the ratty ends off of the left end and thus invented what deakon calls "baby night-nights" and we are glad because they are great for traveling in the car with.

as soon as we got to utah, my mom started blanket project 911... but quickly determined that she could no longer just patch the holes. we picked out some fabric to replace the back side of the blanket and she went to work:

deakon was worried at first about his night-night not being accessible at all times, but quickly got excited for gamma to fix it. After it was all done, i am pretty sure he asked her to fix it some more a few times.

i don't have a great after picture right now because deakon is taking his nap, but here is a weird shot with it and in the post below you can kind of see what it looks like in his crib:



wonder what the actual blanket looked like before the abuse?
see: VIDEOS and watch the top one of Deakon waking up in his crib.