I draw the line!

Eli sleeps with quite a collection of "friends".
He has 2 "RedKite" teddies- the Belly bears (they have bells inside them). He has "Pinky" who is a purply coloured teddy/cat/thing Roz T gave him when he was born. Deb gave him Mutt & Bull, and MakkaPakka, I gave him IgglePiggle for Christmas. Wormy came from Jacob's friend Dave for a first birthday present. He claimed Brandon off Jacob- poetic justice seeing as Jacob claimed Brandon from one of my house mates about 10 years ago. Fuzzy came from Poppa & Granny Kay. Froggie lived in the car for a while but at some stage made his way into bed. And he's added one of my pigs to his collection. And of course, the old faithful cloth nappy. MORE than enough friends to sleep with.
When Eli goes to bed, there's always a 5-10 minute silence at first, which we've recently discovered is him collecting his friends around him and arranging them, then he decides who's being cuddled- usually a belly bear, and always the nappy- before he goes to sleep.
Nights when he can't go to sleep quickly, we often listen to him singing and twirling the belly bears around. Nice.

Now, I recently mentioned Eli & Trev's morning routine.
Trev gets Eli up abouty 6.50am, changes his nappy, gives him a drink of milk & dresses him. Trev has breakfast, then they both come down and wake me up. Trev gets dressed for work, they both go brush their teeth, then go outside to feed Kasey, which is my cue for getting up. Not a morning person.
My pillow is a pig. Mum brought me a biggish pig a few years back, designed for kids to lay on while they watch videos or whatever, and I sleep on her. Charlotte. I haven't named any of the other myriad pigs around the place, just this one, around the time Trev decided he didn't like the pig looking at him when we're in bed, and I used to think Charlotte was the pig in Charlotte's web, so it kind of stuck. Yes, I know you're all snorting!!!

WELL, Eli decided last week that Charlotte should live in his bed. AND I DRAW THE LINE!!

Trev thinks it's HILARIOUS!!

Y'know, I will vomit in the shower every morning I'm carrying him in my womb and avoid my favourite cheese; I will forgo sleep and me-time; I will forget about current music lists and TV shows and watch Play School (even though it's as boring as bat shit, no-one on it can sing, and WORSE- it's on the same time as Entertainment Tonight!). I even faced my needle phobia and dealt with the whole slice and dice deal- not that I had any choice, but still, I was so brave- even AFTER our neighbour told me the story of her sister's guts spilling out from ruptured caeser stitches- well, not brave exactly, but I didn't completely lose the plot.

HOWEVER, I WILL NOT ELI SLEEP WITH MY CHARLOTTE!!!

Am I being petty? I have such a bad history of sleeping, that I insist on my stuff (Charlotte & blanky), although I forgo one when we travel. If he can have 62 friends, can't I just have one???