Five's a Crowd

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Our girl's crib is becoming a crowded place. We've always had the Purple Baby (or as I'd like to say Baby #1), and the Duck (known only as "Duck" - an item that Jessica detests by the way "not cute enough"). Now she's started to add to the rotation. So at bedtime she has Duck, Baby #1, Paci(fier), blanket, music on ....and now we have Donald Duck! and Baby #2 (although Baby#2 is becoming number one in our girl's heart). But that's not all! She also must have the tiny, tiny, brown, knit blanket for Donald Duck and Baby #2. It's getting out of hand.

As you can see in the picture, she sleeps just fine amid the throng. She does have some OCD tendencies (these all come from Jessica). Notice how all of the Babies are on one side of the bed and all of the Ducks are on the other. Separate but equal apparently. Ducks have no civil rights.
Here's the bottom line, she sleeps. And as long as she sleeps we might invite a flock of ducks into her bedroom if she asked for it.

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