This morning

Every morning when Avery up and gets out of bed he brings a collection of toys, blankies or other sundry items out of his room. Its a morning ritual and the amount of things he is carrying usually correponds to how exciting the previous day was. For example, when Nanny was here with us over Christmas, Avery would come out of his room with his arms full and overflowing with his new toys and games. Most days he has a race car or maybe his UPS truck or maybe a stuffed animal. If he every comes out of his room empty handed we know its going to be a very bad day.

The other day I was digging through his bin full of stuffed animals, looking for I don't know what, and I came across a Curious George back pack (or pack pack) as he calls it. Its not just any old back pack, its an actual stuffed George that hangs on your back like a real monkey. And George has a little back pack on too. We got it as a hand me down from our next door neighbors grandson. I'm sure they had no idea how crazy Avery is about Curious George. Anyway, the Curious George pack pack has been Avery's new BFF for the last few days and he was insistent upon wearing it to bed last night, not just taking it to bed, but actually wearing it. I think we ended up taking George off of his back so he could lay down, but I'm fairly certain that he slept with Avery last night. So this morning as we were getting ready for work I heard Avery come out of his room and head up stairs. He had his George pack pack. When he got up the stairs he unzipped the inside of the bag to reveal his white blankie and then he undid George's little back pack to reveal his brown blankie (actually they are the same blankie, I'm just not sure why he calls them different colors). He also managed to pack up a few race cars and a helicopter and a few other small toys. So I could only imagine Avery sitting in his bed (waiting for the 6 on his clock so he could get out of bed) packing up his George back pack full of goodies to bring upstairs.

It was quite simply adorable.