Like a Security Blanket, But Shinier

Today while cleaning my room I found some of last year's Christmas card pictures. I handed one to each of the girls and carried on with my sorting. Later, when I put Sophie down for a nap, she asked me to hand her the picture in her bed. I did and then left it there when she went to sleep.

Tonight after she was tucked into her bed I watched as she stared at that picture. She named each one  of us as she pointed, "Mommy, Daddy, Baby, Peta, Pooca, Phoebe." It was adorable.

A short time later, Bryan went in to console a now-crying Sophie. He found the picture and, not knowing that I had given it to her, and in an effort to prepare her bed for sleeping, he tried to take it out. That was a mistake. "No! My Mommy! My Daddy!"

He left the picture.