People get addicted to a lot of different things these days. There are drugs, alcohol, gambling, and cigarettes just to name a couple. Then there are the Jayne girls.
Leah is addicted to her thumb and blankie. This is not too out of the ordinary for little kids. She loves to hold her blankie and suck on her thumb. When Emma was little she was addicted to her blanket as well and always had to sniff the corners. We thought it was cute and funny in a strange sort of way. She would sniff a corner then turn the blanket around to the next corner and sniff it. Then she would turn it again and sniff the next corner. She quit doing this as soon as we stopped giving her a pacifier. I do not remember is she had a specific corner she liked but was always just sniffing all the corners of the blanket. Weird. Or so we thought. Then along came Sarah, aka, the Tornado. Early on she was addicted to shoes. "Shoes" was one of the first words she spoke and she always had to be putting shoes on, taking shoes off, and putting more shoes on. But her longest lasting addiction is the most strange of all. She seems to also have a blanket corner sniffing problem like Emma did. Only she has taken it a step further. She has a definite favorite corner and stops to get a hit, I mean sniff at any and all times of the day. She can tell if it is the right corner without being able to see it as well.
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| Leah sucking her thumb and holding her blankie |
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| Sarah taking a hit from the blankie. |
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| That's good stuff! |
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| She is willing to share with anyone that wants a hit. |
Sarah is not stingy with her blankie either. Well, she will not let anyone take it out of her sight, but she is more than willing to let anyone else get a sniff if you ask her. She is happy to shove it right up in your nose! (it does not smell all that great by the way!) Early on we figured that a good washing would take care of this issue and she would stop sniffing it or resort to a random corner, but that was not the case. As you can see by the condition of the corner, she is always able to find it again. The other 3 corners look just as they did the day the blankie was made.
This is also not something she just does when she is getting tired. She has been seen walking across a room to go get something and happen to come by her blankie. She will stop to pick up the corner and take a sniff, then drop it and keep on going! We are not really concerned with this habit of hers. There are a lot worse things she could get addicted to. Maybe if she is still doing this as a teenager we will get a little concerned! Until then, if anyone has a thing for blankie corners, come on over. Sarah has a good one and is willing to share with you!
5 comments:
I noticed the author forgot to mention an addiction he suffers from. If he doesn't step forward with it, I will feel obliged to do so (hint: it involves a GPS receiver and searching for numerous containers of various sizes in all sorts of interesting locations).
I'm sorry honey but I have to correct you, Riah was the first one that had the sniffing addiction. Emma was addicted to her binky but not really her blankie. Thankfully Riah's addiction left when the binky left. We can only hope that Sarah will let go of her nasty addiction. Do they make rehab centers for this?
This is very embarrassing, but I myself, 20 years old, engaged, with a daughter actually have the same addiction to sniffing a certain blanket.
I'm 15 and still sniff my blankie, Smh it really is a bothersome habit.
Im 15 too lols I sniff the Hard part of a blanket though the edge. It just feels good Im not addicted to it but I just do it withought thinking am I a wierdo?
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