Do Your Children like to Sleep with Odd Things?

My 3 y/o daughter has what we call Squishy, it's a micro-bead tube like pillow, and she has to have that (she's had it since she was a few months old). Her other must have is a 2.5 ft long stuffed hippo, and her pillow (with her tinkerbell pillow case...and i'll tell you she has to be right side up, if that image is upside down she will tell you it's not right).
Besides her must haves she gets in the habbit of "needing" to sleep with whatever she's into that day. It could be a pair of sun glasses, a toy, a stack of books, a pair of shoes, a plastic spoon, etc. The last few days she has been sleeping with a cup of goldfish crackers. She doesn't eat them, just cuddles the cup. Odd, but whatever gets her to sleep. =)

For a long time my daughter slept with really weird things. I wished I had written them down because I don't remember them all! I know she slept with a shampoo bottle for a while. Then with a brush. For a while she liked to sleep with the foam letters that went on her floor mat. Once a baseball.

Now she has a specific blanket she sleeps with. It's too small for her, but if we try to put her to sleep with any other blanket she will get out of bed a chuck it out of the room. We live in Florida so it's not really a big deal.

My favorite time though is she had a baby doll that she slept with every night. Then I guess they developed some bad blood because she would toss it out of her room before she went to sleep. I guess they made up because she slept with it again last night.

Who knows what goes through that child's mind. ;)

My DD made a tambourine out of beans and paper plates in Sunday School and slept with it for two weeks. She's also slept with blocks and rubber dinosaurs.

My sister used to sleep with a brick...until she was holding it above her and singing to it, dropped it and broke a tooth.

My 2 y/o has had a blanket for the longest time, the cruddiest thing, not even soft. She likes to feel it in her fingers, and hold it over her eyes to fall asleep like you said. It seems to attract a lot of dog hair but she doesn't care. Awhile ago she added a big soft stuffed pig to the mix. Not to mention she has a pacifier so every where she goes its "Baba! Blay! Pig!" Like, where are they, I can't move on to the next place without them. She finally learned how to say blankie instead of just "blay", and has also added a couple more favorites to the mix. I put her in to her bed and it's "Baba! Blankie! Pig! Frog! Pillow! Bunny!" She must have all these things to fall asleep. I've noticed lately she's shortened it to just "stuff"... I go to get her out of bed in the morning and she's saying "stuff! Stuff!", like don't forget my stuff! I have to pick up each thing and carry it downstairs with her, because there is no way she can even hold all those things, It is getting quite comical. My older daughter just had a "puppy", it was much easier.

I think it's really cute that your son is sleeping with his sister's cloths for comfort!

Its cute.... one day you will miss them being this way.
Yes, kids are like this.

My kids sleep with stuffed animals, and things that are "cozy" to them. My daughter, is known to take my well used t-shirts (which have my smell on it) and then put it in her stash of items she sleeps with.
She has a huge bundle of things she sleeps with. And it ALL, means something to her.
My son does that too. And he also puts toys in his bed too.
Its cute.
And every night before they go to bed, they arrange their items (each item is placed carefully around their bed), and then they go to sleep.
Real endearing if you ask me.

Our 6 yr old daughter likes to sleep with whatever book she read before going to bed.

The weird things are the things she doesn't want to sleep with or even in her room while she sleeps. We'll set her in bed get her mush haves, Panket (Pink Blanket) and Momma Kitty, who, by the way is, wearing an old pull up and is called Dream Fairy at the moment. She will with in 5 minutes get out of bed open the door and chuck some random toy outside her room. At first we didn't know what she was doing, we thought she was trying to sneak out, avoid sleep and we'd g to correct it and there would be a melt down. All she needed to do is banish "whatever" for the night and she'd go right to sleep. It's always something different but it's always something. Last night it was Blue Dinosaur who had been the "Chosen One" during the day.

We now call this phenomenom, Baby Feng Shui.

My youngest (about to turn 2) likes to have a book with her and a 'silky' blanket (she rubs the silky part). My oldest (4) likes to have her stuffed lobster and her rubbery rat.

ETA: When the youngest was wee, maybe 6 months, she would not sleep unless she was covered up with dad's t-shirt. That lasted for a few months.

Nothing!! My 5 year old told us a while back that he has never liked that we put his stuffed toys in his bed, and can we please put them in the toy box, instead. lol He is down to a sheet and a comforter, which he likes to use to cover his head when he sleeps. Of course, the other morning I went to wake him up, and ended up seeing his stinky feet on his pillow instead of his handsome face! Kids are just crazy!!

My 3 y/o sleeps with whatever he was last playing with ~ usually a batman toy.
My 7 y/o sleeps with a little stuffed armadillo that our friend from Venezuela sent him, a panda bear from Panda restaurant my mom got him and a triceratops dinosaur I bought him years ago. He tucks all 3 into his night shirt so he doesn't lose them in his sleep or fall on the floor.

My son has always liked to hold onto my hair when he sleeps. He twines his fingers up in it because he says it's soft and silky.
When he got too old to sleep with me all the time, he started taking my silky robe to bed with him to rub between his fingers.

My girl has been set since pillow pets came out.

My kids are 12 and 9. They both still sleep with blankets they've had since they were toddlers. However, the funniest stage they BOTH went thru was when they were around 7 or so, they would put ALL their stuffed animals on their bed and sleep with them. I'm talking like 40 or so...crazy! I have pics of their little faces in the middle of all the animals...so funny and cute!

My son is just like your youngest! He will sleep with whatever the object of the day is -- a contact lens case, a particular Matchbox car, his sister's hairbrush, you name it. I draw the line at really tiny objects (like the marbles from Hungry Hungry Hippos) or things that could hurt him somehow (the balloon animal he got at a restaurant).

M. gosh! i have to bring her back to her bed over and over. d rater her sleep with an old milk crate or something odd=) although as much as it drives M. nuts i know i';m going to miss it soon...i mean shes 5 how much longer can it last? i hope not too much=)

That is too funny!

My son who just turned 2 yesterday has to sleep with lots of blankets. In his bed there are like 8 smaller sized blankets and then his lovie blankets he calls his "Buppy" and now recently he has started to love his stuffed monkey we got him when he was born. Before bed he always grabs his buppy and monkey for sleep now. It's cute.

I thought my 6 year old was the only one that slept with wierd stuff!
He sleeps with about 20 "buddies", stuffed animals. He also has his shells and rock collection on his bed along with a cash register (with fake money!),his go go's (these dinky little character guys) and his soccer ball. I don't even know how he gets comfortable since his bed is taken over by "stuff".
L.

@MandA My husband says "She must have got a charge out of it!"..

Books and tons of them.. Even when we put them away after we read them.. In the morning there were tons of them all over her bed..

She is in college and still has at least 3 in the bed with her..