Connor's Babies

Connor is just obsessed with his stuffed animals. He sleeps with a dozen of them, but he also insists on dragging them around wherever he goes.

He has 3 that he must have with him at all times: Piglet, a cat and a turtle. The cat he calls "Meow".

One of the amusing rituals of our house is Connor waking up in the morning and from his nap. He gathers his animal friends in his arms and we have to manage to get him and every one of the animals out of the crib. It is very cute watching him toddle out of his room with his arms so full of furry friends he can't even see where he's going (gotta get a picture of that!).

As a mom of a boy, I wasn't sure I'd see the kind of nurturing you expect to see with girls (cuddling baby dolls and so forth). So it really warms my heart to see Connor be so sweet and so attached with his "babies". We often catch him pretending to share his juice with Piglet and making his animals give each other kisses. Of course, he also stuffs them into his trucks and zooms them around the house. He is still a boy after all! :)