We brought Claire home from day care at the beginning of spring break, and since she wasn’t returning to the two year old room they gave me all her stuff. When I got home and began doing laundry of clothes I forgot my kid owned because they were at day care for so long, I found an olive green very boy-looking sweat shirt. When the day care woman came to babysit over break, I asked her whose shirt she sent home. She matter-of-factly answered "Vinni’s". She’d sent home the sweatshirt of the little boy about whom my daughter could not stop talking. They were inseparable before Vinni moved into the three year room in January. I chuckled nervously and just tossed it on her floor.

Today Claire went to the three year old room officially as we returned from break (when I picked her up she and Vinni were sitting having a snack together), and tonight she jumped into her bed, grabbed Vinni’s sweatshirt off of her floor and cuddled up with it. She told me she didn’t need her regular blanket because she had his shirt. Hmmm…