Initiate "Operation Lovey"

After suggestions from Mindy and Erin, I have decided that Isaac needs a sleeping buddy of some sort (aka a "lovey", though we will limit the use of that word because I think it sounds dumb). Especially with his cold, it has become devastatingly apparent that Isaac can't comfort himself when he wakes up at night. Whereas before he was waking up every three or so hours, you know, a normal sleep cycle, his cold forces him to stir whenever he has snot issues, which is a lot, and he absolutely refuses to go back to sleep without some big-people help.

Both Mindy and Erin attribute some of their sleep-through-the-night successes to having an object of sorts that their boys are attached to. Isaac never made a bond by himself to a particular blanket or stuffed animal, so we went out to Target tonight and bought him a lovey (shudder) starter kit. For the blanket end of things, if that is what works for him, Dad picked out a plain green number, but one that has a velvety side with satin trim and an all-satiny side. In case he would prefer an object of sorts, I found this neat "teething blanket" that is just a little square of low-pile veloury-material, about the size of a washcloth, that has a little stuffed donkey head on one side and a diagonal rubbery bit on the other end for his chewing pleasure. Wish us luck...