Comfort toys. DD2 seems to be needing hers more. Any ideas?

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DD2 (2.5) has 2 identical (we learnt from DD1!) elephant toys she is very attached to, she cries if we go out of the house without one, and most ofthe time she carries it out herself anyway. They come to the park + get filthy, they go to bed with her, they now have to eat tea with her too or she won't eat.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind washing them or a bit of dirt, that is why she has 2, but she is slowly seeming to become unable to do anything without them.

Phase? Normal? Should I find something else to worry about

sounds completely normal. ds is 4.6 and still has his mumu's (although they dont have to go everwhere now!) fortunately they are muslin squares and easily replaceable (in fact father christmas got him a 6 pack the year before last as they kept getting left places and lost). He wouldnt go anywhere without at least one, and he would wear it round his neck like a scarf so it wouldn't get dragged around and also so it was near.
my suggestion would be to get a stock of them in for emergencies

I got them from mothercare, DD1 also has an elly but they changed the style so I am stuck with what I have!
DD1 sleeps with hers and plays with him in the hosue but she never had to take it everywhere with her so I was unsure what was 'normal'! Thanks.

Ds has always seemed to go in phases. He is 3 and at the moment rather likes taking his doudou out with him. A 4 year old introduced me to his hippo the other day which he still took everywhere and a boy at toddlers tried to steal dd's lion because it was very similar to his and he had just started leaving his at home

Ds has 3. We had 2 but lost one so got another spare. THe lost one turned up a few weeks later but ds never accepted the 3rd one and then aty some point decided that there was a right one and a wrong one with the remaining 2 I don't know how he could tell the difference although it is obvious now that one is rather more loved! He only accepts "wrong doudoud" if "right doudou" has been sicked on or something.

yes sounds normal and you are more sensible than me for having 2 of the same as my dd became almost obsessively attached to an ikea blanket! It got dragged everywhere and has been on many adventures!!!