Blue Bear

At the first visit our little guy had with his mom after coming into care she sent him back to us with an adorable teal colored bear. E obviously loves this bear. We figured he either loved it so much because it came from her or because he had had it before he came into care. (When I visited with mom last week I asked her about the bear and she said it was his and that he had always had it.) We took it with us to our photo session that we had a week or two after E came to stay with us. We knew we would give mom some of the photos and thought that she would like to see her baby with the bear she gave him. The bear sits in the corner of his bed and we have only played with it a handful of times. It is a spot in his bed where he never really sees it since he just takes up such s small portion of the bed and doesn't roll around in bed. Last night however he was trying to put himself back to sleep after having only been asleep for a few minutes. Needless to say he wasn't happy about going back to sleep without help. I was watching him in the video monitor as he pitched a fit. He managed to scoot himself to the top of the bed. He was has rolling his head from side to side and throwing his arms around. All of a sudden it got quiet in the monitor so I looked at it again and he had his head turned hard to the side and was touching Blue Bear. He continued to contently rub Blue Bear's fur for about 20 minutes until he fell back to sleep. He was so peaceful and calm. I could tell he was really thinking while he rubbed the bear. It about broke my heart to see him rub that bear with a thoughtful look on his face.