What does your toddler/child take to bed?

My DD has collected an array of dolls, teddies and stuffed toys that *must* stay on her bed, along with her quilt. She trots in early in the morning with one or two, different each time, and requests who she wants to cuddle out of the pack each night. She has a couple of favourites, Freddy the dog, a little bear with a rattle (nice and easy to find in the dark!), a lamb and Oscar the teddy.

The last week or so she's taken to asking for slightly less bedtime-type companions - tonight she took her bedtime story, last night it was a pack of flash cards and before that a toy cup. Gives us a chuckle!

What does your little one like to cuddle and take to bed?

DD likes to take her Dummy & her winnie the pooh that glows & plays music. Sometimes she will take Dora with her.

her thumb!!

Imran doesn't take anything special but he usually falls asleep with the toy of the day so tonight he went to bed with a Thomas the Tank Engine take-along in each hand.

Yasin likes to take his dummy, his blankie, his puppy and the toys and/or book of the moment. Sometimes it seems like there are more objects than boy in the bed.

Darcy won't take a thing. She has a dummy but if you try and offer her something to cuddle she chucks it.

J has lately wanted to take a book to bed. He always have Suzie bear with him aswell.

at the moment its 'big narnie' (bananas in pyjamas doll) and "trauma bear"
But some days he will ask for different toys, by his names for them, which are sometimes hard to decipher. Tonight he also insisted on taking an empty bottle which he threw out of the cot after less than 2 minutes.

right now it is Buzzzzzzzzzzz peaaaaasssseee top of his lungs every night it is so very cute i love it that he has formed a bond with his toy friends

Seth has to have his lindt bunny, another bunny, his black labrador, another teddy, his dummy and his blanket. He *must* have his blanket in 30 degree heat, he plays with a corner, then finds the next corner plays with it, then moves along and keeps doing this till he falls asleep. Very cute ;)

Paris was and still is a collector at bedtime. She has these little rituals and everything has to be exactly where she wants it or she can't sleep. And the rituals change depending on what phases she's going through.

Grace has to have her dummy and her stuffed doggy....her favourite toy.

Aidyn always takes his blankie to bed these days, but over the past two years he has taken anything from cars, trains, large army tanks, books, and sometimes wants to pile his bed up with every soft toy he owns... LOL
Just recently he fell asleep hugging a massive transformer Optimus Prime toy... not a very comfortable looking thing to be hugging let me tell you!

I'm loving this thread - our babies are all so sweet and unique and quirky :heartbeat:

Danielle takes her Oogie bear. He's a little blanket with a bear head. She's had him since she was born.

She also has to take a book, which is great cause she will read it when she wakes up in the morning and give me a little more sleep!

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Just recently he fell asleep hugging a massive transformer Optimus Prime toy... not a very comfortable looking thing to be hugging let me tell you!

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I want a massive transformer Optimus Prime toy!!!!

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Julia just has her lamb :) she must go to bed and sleep hugging it. However the must have in the car is the little Elmo and Cookie Monster soft toys you can buy at Coles.

LMAO Cai, yeah I think DP really wanted it for himself but used Aidyn as an excuse to get it! ;) Its so complicated it will take Aidyn at least a couple of years to master, and I don't think I will ever figure out how to transform it LOL.

Link me up :) I wanna see what it looks like... if they made it in bumblebee I'd hug that for sure :D

Lily always takes her baby born doll, always needs at least 2 dummies. One to use and one to hold. Maybe as a compensation as Charlie doesn't have a dummy. She also needs to 'read' at least 2-3 books.

Charlie needs a bottle of milk, a fluffy blanket and his white glo bear teddy. Much more simpler!

I'll pm you the links, cause they are all on commercial sites.

let me see.... Paige has, her Ariel doll and a rag doll, Teddy bear, snuggle blankie (from my MIL given to DD not long before MIL died, so really special), yellow star projector, her "ummy" and her taggie blankie made by mummy (i made it from a square of polar fleece material a square of satin and a selection of satin ribbons, sewed the ribbons in small loops so they stick out of the fabric) I made a few of them so she has one for daycare and one for the car and a couple for home.
She loves rubbing the tags it's really cute when she gets sleepy and lies down or snuggles in rubbing the tags between her fingers.
I love our special night time routine!!!!
Paige wakes up in the morning and will spend an hour putting her dollies to bed using her taggie blankies to tuck them in....soooooo cute.

My 4 and 2 yr olds both have night night's ( cot doona's) and Brave bear and bear bear . 4yr old got brave bear at the hosp when he split his chin open and has used it ever since and bear bear was given to us when 2 yr old was born... They are also carried around the house and they are cuddled up with on the couch.. I do get tired of picking them up :)

One cute thing tho. I seriously had to wash bear bear the other morning and I hung him on the line from his ears and Jacob (2yr) poked his head out the back door and giggled and said "bear bear looking at me.. and bear bear hurt and pointed at his ears.. lol.. so cute

the night nights get dried in the drier otherwise they sit on the backstairs waiting for them to dry

Archie has to have 2 dummies and either "gigger" Tigger or "foofa" Woofa the minky dog, sometimes he needs both, atm Foofa is the fav

Maria has a bright red flanelette bunny rug with white dots on it that I never have got around to overlocking yet. She also has a primary coloured bunny rug that she will use if the red one is dirty. It is funny, any piece of flanelette that is pascal coloured is classed as Sofia's, anything that is bright is hers.

it's toy of the day here too, altho lately it's a ball. And it's so cute when i he comes in with an armful of 4 different balls and I tell him he can only have one, you can see his little mind ticking over as he decides on 'zat wun' and throws the rest out of his room LOL.

Speaking of unwieldy toys being taken to bed.. my bro's kids gave him a wooden abacus (of all things! lol) and that went to bed with him, and of course it ended up coming with him into our bed the next morning.. geez it hurts having that thing fall on my head! LOL.

But generally, it's a ball, or a car. Tonight tho it was his leapfrog caterpillar thing that plays classical music. He's only allowed one thing, coz it wakes him up having too much on the bed.

aaawwww they're all too cute :) My third (3.5) has taken a stuffed dog to bed as long as I can remember. The funny thing is that my older 2 have started copying him by finding a stuffed dog too to take with them to bed lol

Cas

DD#1 takes a soft purple rabbit who has recently been joined by a soft zebra :p I've learnt to tuck them in under the covers so we don't have an "animals over board" situation! LOL!! Stretching down between the wall and the bed in the middle of the night to retrieve animals isn't easy ;) DD#1 did try her baby dolls once but discovered that their plastic faces just weren't cuddly enough so the poor baby doll got the flick!

DS has 3 (yes, three) dummies and an assortment of soft toys which live in his bed. Then he usually tries to pull in his 8 foot long catapillar as well and rolls it around himself. I then go in when he's asleep and extract it from him. For his lunchtime sleep he takes a handful of matchbox cars, basically as many as he can carry!