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What has your 2 year old insisted on taking to bed tonight?

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BugsyDrakeTableScape · 26/04/2023 19:21

Mine is currently snoring away clasping 2 pairs of Peppa Pig sunglasses and a book she stole from nursery entitled "I can say Thank You"

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Offthexmaslist · 26/04/2023 22:05

A 30year old surveyor now but for several months as a toddler .. A brown paper bag with two King Edward potatoes that got hairier and hairier .. called Ann and Sid. .. (weren't allowed out of their bag though in case they ran away. ..

Carebearstartrek · 26/04/2023 22:06

Two cars, two duck teddies, 6 little people toys, entire CoComelon family figures, special teddy, pick car. For nap time today it included picture books. The cot has been filled with toys on a few occasions.

iwantmyownicecreamvan · 26/04/2023 22:16

Not tonight - but 34 years ago (😊) he alternating between going to bed in either wellies or his flippers that grandma found in a charity shop. I had to go up when he was asleep and take them off him. I will never forget how funny he looked asleep with the flippers making a big bump at the end of the bed.

Two-year-olds never change!

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Cosycover · 26/04/2023 22:17

A fucking spoon.

Sodullincomparison · 26/04/2023 22:26

I can’t even look in there most nights 🤦‍♀️

a lava lamp last night and a globe.

Has been known to insist on her ski jacket, stolen baubles from the Christmas tree and tubes of glitter. It still sparkles at certain angles a year later 😂

CoffeePricing · 26/04/2023 22:34

Mine is 5 but is in bed fully dressed up as Captain America and has a Spiderman Piñata, a ball, and two toy cars next to him. Love him so much

SquidwardBound · 26/04/2023 22:35

Mine has taken a red balloon to bed tonight.

Seeleyboo · 26/04/2023 22:36

Mine insisted of wearing her school uniform to bed. Shoes included. WTH. She's 6

BoatsAndHoes · 26/04/2023 22:38

A Vanish oxi-action scoop.

Chattycathydoll · 26/04/2023 22:42

Stephhh87 · 26/04/2023 20:35

This is the cutest thread I’ve ever read. My LO has a favourite yellow spoon but is not even 1 so can’t be trusted to take it to bed yet!

Mine has a favourite yellow spoon!! It’s still her favourite now she is 8, it’s named ‘the scoop’.

She was given it to eat her pudding with at a restaurant on holiday once. She loved it so much she told the waitress it was the best spoon. When it came time to leave, and obviously to say goodbye to the spoon, she cried. But the waitress said she could keep it!

She drew a thank you picture in the hotel room and delivered it the next day. A picture of her smiling and holding the spoon.

I don’t know what was so special about the spoon, it looks like a standard ikea plastic spoon, but she did indeed sleep with it all night, and every night for the rest of the holiday.

rattlinbog · 26/04/2023 22:47

Wooden rainbow and 4 plastic cars.

MyOtherCarIsAPorsche · 26/04/2023 22:50

My grandson has taken a potato to bed with him this evening.

It was on his pillow, half covered by the quilt.

Impatientwino · 26/04/2023 23:01

When my youngest was two he carried around a cucumber for a fair few weeks. Said it was his best friend. He took that thing everywhere. Bed, childminder, the garden, everywhere he went the cucumber went. I kept having to insist that it needed a little nap in the fridge 

Had to swap it out for a new one each time it got a bit soggy! Was very cute!

DancinOnTheCeiling · 26/04/2023 23:17

@MyOtherCarIsAPorsche when DD went through the scared of monsters phase I had to come up with something and said we need to make sure we have potatoes as they scare monsters away. Maybe she's passed the news on to your grandson? Grin

DancinOnTheCeiling · 26/04/2023 23:19

Ps I should've said DD took this very seriously and insisted on potatoes being in her room every night

Kyse · 26/04/2023 23:22

Fipfop · 26/04/2023 21:08

An ice pack 🤯

I put a frozen one in my bed in summer, wrapped in a tea towel. Went to the toilet, came back to find the cat on top of the ice pack, purring and chatting away to himself blissfully
Confused

Fine, I'll just melt then Grin

Readinstead · 26/04/2023 23:46

Just leaving dd's this evening after dropping my dgc home when her dp rushes out to see if 18 month old dgd's Tinky Winky was in my car. Great relief when it was found. All 4 teletubbies must be in the cot at bedtime, no substitutions and definitely all 4 - this week anyway 😁

MeinKraft · 26/04/2023 23:55

5 year old DS has gone to bed with a dinosaur that hatched out of one of those eggs you soak in water for a few days. He calls it wibbly wobbly Charlie Darley!

Fizbosshoes · 27/04/2023 00:08

When DD was about 5 she went through a phase of taking a nectarine stone to bed every night.

DS used to take matchbox style cars to bed with him, I always used to take them out as soon as he fell asleep as I thought they would be uncomfortable to roll on to.

Stephhh87 · 27/04/2023 03:03

Chattycathydoll · 26/04/2023 22:42

Mine has a favourite yellow spoon!! It’s still her favourite now she is 8, it’s named ‘the scoop’.

She was given it to eat her pudding with at a restaurant on holiday once. She loved it so much she told the waitress it was the best spoon. When it came time to leave, and obviously to say goodbye to the spoon, she cried. But the waitress said she could keep it!

She drew a thank you picture in the hotel room and delivered it the next day. A picture of her smiling and holding the spoon.

I don’t know what was so special about the spoon, it looks like a standard ikea plastic spoon, but she did indeed sleep with it all night, and every night for the rest of the holiday.

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Aw that is such a hilariously cute story 🥲😊

Teenagequeenwithaloadedgun · 27/04/2023 04:00

DS is older now, but used to scream if he couldn't go to bed clutching an empty calpol box.

JennyWren87 · 27/04/2023 04:40

My 2.5 year old tried to take his toddler sized wooden chair to bed the other night. He made space for it and tucked it in. Then squeezed himself down the bottom of the bed. Lest he disturb The Chair. I had to intervene

Mumtobabyhavoc · 27/04/2023 07:20

iwantmyownicecreamvan · 26/04/2023 22:16

Not tonight - but 34 years ago (😊) he alternating between going to bed in either wellies or his flippers that grandma found in a charity shop. I had to go up when he was asleep and take them off him. I will never forget how funny he looked asleep with the flippers making a big bump at the end of the bed.

Two-year-olds never change!

What a lovely memory. 💖

curlywurlylover666 · 27/04/2023 13:19

This is actually a really sweet thread to read x

ZacharinaQuack · 27/04/2023 13:25

Mine went through a phase of nicking a toy tractor from the older kid next door every time he went round there and taking it to bed. We had to sneak it out when he'd gone to sleep. Now he is (slightly) more amenable to reason I talk him out of taking anything hard and plastic into the cot. The toy cars all line up on the chair to 'watch him sleep'.