the story of bobby...

when makenzie was six months old, michael's cousin sara sent a box of clothes and things for makenzie. in it was a little pink puppy. i thought it was very cute and put it in makenzie's crib with her. when she got a little bit older she started holding on to it when i would get her out of the crib. she loved holding it and loved having it in bed with her. it became her "lovey". right before her first birthday on the way home from oklahoma we left it on the airplane. i was really disappointed because it was the one thing she cared about when she was sleeping. my mom ended up finding the same puppy but it was blue. i figured at that age she wouldn't care about the color. it was more about how it felt that made it recognizable to her. and again she was attached. when she was about 16 months old she was sitting in the high chair and said "bobby go?" but i didn't know what bobby was. she kept saying it and i thought she said puppy, meaning copper and penny. when i took her out of the high chair she went and found her blue puppy and said "bobby". it was so cute and it stuck, he became bobby.

bobby has been like a sibling to makenzie. forever he is the one she cares the most about of all her stuffed animals and things. she talks to him as if he can hear her. she doesn't do it quite as much now but she still talks to him alot. she's always excited to tell him things and show him things. it's really cute.

as time when on and the love for bobby grew i knew it was important that i had more than one on hand. it is made by gund, but it is the 2004 version of the "my first puppy" and it doesn't look the same anymore. my mom found a few more at the store near her. and then i ended up buying a few off of ebay and then michael's cousin, sara, ended up finding another just last year. it's a good thing because we have lost a few. we lost one at the dmv, one at the grocery store and one at a shopping center. the time we lost it at the shopping center she was older and was devastated. after searching i convinced her that we had lost it but that the store would mail him back to us. she was so relieved. knowing i had another one at home that trick worked. she still talks about when he got mailed back to her.

she doesn't know we have more than one bobby. she knows she had a pink one when she was a baby but that's all. one time when she was about 2 i was holding her and she said she wanted bobby. so i walked over to the couch and handed her bobby. we walked back into the kitchen and she saw in her diaper bag the other bobby! her world collided! the look on her face was priceless, she kept saying, there is two bobbys!! luckily she was young enough to put one away and it was out of sight, out of mind. i kind of can't believe it has never happened again.

the other day bobby got dirty and she wanted him to be clean. so i said i would wash him and bring him to her in bed when he was dry. well, i forgot about the laundry and when i went to check on her before going to sleep she woke up and said, i need bobby! i had 2 that i was interchanging but they were both dirty and being washed and were still wet. so i went and got out the bag of bobbys that i have. i grabbed another one that i thought looked about the same as the others. i took it to her and in the dark, with only the light of a night light, she looked at him and laughed. i said what? and she said, bobby looks funny and different. oh my gosh!! crazy girl some how could tell that! i thought it was so funny and the idea of this blog came to mind.

right now we have 7 bobbys. hahahaha! 3 look about the same, the one she's using right now. 2 of them pretty haggard, and 2 of them are new.


here are the three that look about the same. one of these was the one from the other night that she could tell he was different.


look at the brand new one, isn't he the cutest!!!


here is a new one next the the worst one. this is one we had for several months and didn't have one to trade it with. isn't it amazing how worn he gets!


so, that is the story of makenzie's best friend. hopefully she won't see this post!! :) it will be funny to tell her someday of all the bobbys she had.