Meet Bo-Bo.
Ben befriended him about a year ago and has been attached ever since. Bo-Bo is a necessity at nap and bedtime and a constant companion in and out of the house. Once the two of them became tight, in a genius mother move, I found another “Bo-Bo” on e-bay. He’d been discontinued and I wanted to be sure to have a spare in case he ever got left on an airplane or thrown off a boat or somehow misplaced. I alternate between the two so they both are faded, stinky and well loved. I can’t even tell who is the real one and who is the impostor.
So smart, right? Right.
Wanna know what wasn’t not so smart? Leaving the spare Bo-Bo in the closet so that Ben could discover him and gleefully announce “another Bo-Bo? We have two?!!”
Damn it. Guess I wasn’t cut out for the whole genius thing after all.
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Doh!
Yeah, I’m not good at putting things away either. My children ALWAYS discover them. Sigh.
This is so funny… of course he found it…
When he found the Faux-Bo you should have explained that that was Co-Co, Bo-Bo’s brother from back in Tennessee and he was just visiting for the day. Then Daddy takes Co-Co the Faux-Bo to ‘the airport’ the next morning and you’re all set.
Too bad there isn’t a professional public relations person in the house to have helped. Oh, wait…
Regardless, it was still a brilliant idea!
Damn it, Scott. That was perfect. I’m going to begin the phase-out today using that story! Bye, bye, Co-Co.
We also had two Bozo bears for my elder daughter but she is now 4 and 1 Bo was much more worn than the other so we couldn’t use both of them. Then Boris came to visit – he’s Bo’s cousin and he is now my younger daughters teddy!
So funny. Damn smart move in the first place. Slight slip up in the hiding department.
Stinker has a bear that’s so freaky looking he calls him Buggy but thankfully Buggy didn’t go anywhere with him. Just needed him at bedtime.
Good luck with Co-Co’s trip to the airport
You are very smart. When my daughter was small, she left her very well-loved and worn Care Bear at a local Taco Tico. We went back instantly but I shudder to think what would have happened if someone had kidnapped Cheer Bear.
Have you not learned by now that nothing you can do in motherhood will ever EVER go as planned? The minute you accept that it all becomes kinda easy!
My daughter is obsessed with her penguin, Charlie. Thankfully we bought him at our local aquarium, but as luck would have it, they’ve NEVER stocked that particular style of penguin again. I’m screwed if Charlie ever disappears.
Good luck with phasing out “Co-Co”!
same thing happened to us…2 bun-buns go every where with us. I have been searching for extras but so far no luck.
Scott is a genius!
I had never asked- when when you went to PA and “lost” him, where did you ever find him…?
D- I left him at home when we went to PA. I don’t know what I was thinking. I specifically put him out so I wouldn’t forget. I’d grabbed a different bear for the baby, so Ben used him for those days. He kept asking for the “Real Bo-Bo.” It broke my heart!
Once, we left “Ducky” at a hotel. Luckily, the staff sent it back to us. (After I called and begged 4 times and sent a check for postage.) My little one was waiting by the mailbox everyday for 2 1/2 weeks. I was wishing that I had a spare. There is no way that I could have gunked up the spare as much as the real Ducky anyway. He is well loved.
All these bo-bo, co-co, ducky, penquin stories are breaking my heart!!
Thanks for the laugh, scary mommy!
Best laid plans…
On Christmas Eve, The Hubs and I stashed a bunch of stocking items in the closet that holds the vacuums…it’s downstairs and could be easily accessed after the kids went to bed.
We had a Christmas Eve gift exchange at our house because I was on bedrest with the twins and not exactly mobile. Well, MiniMe loves to clean so Grandma got him a play vacuum. Which he decided he needed to put away in the same closet as the big vacuum.
Ooops.
I’ll join you in the genius club.
My nephew had a blankie he called “Dee.” Don’t know why. It wasn’t a whole blanket–just part of a thermal blanket with some satin trim on the edge. My SIL literally cut up the entire blanket, so that if Bobby lost Dee, or Dee got particularly stinky, etc., she’d always have a spare. It worked, too!
Oh no! That just ruined your whole plan! I hate when that happens!
This is so funny, especially the part about how they are both faded, stinky, and well-loved!
I wish I could find a spare “Puppy” for my youngest. Its all I can do to pry him out of her sticky hands to throw him in the washer!
I had to put out a call when we needed a back-up for our daughter’s Most Beloved teddy bear, which to our horror had been discontinued (thanks a lot, Ty). We eventually had no less than FIVE back-up bears, thanks to diligent, eagle-eyed family and friends, as well as two lookalike but not exactly the same bears from a well-meaning aunt.
Within a couple of months, the kiddo was sleeping with five of the identical teddies AND the two faux-teddies. We kept one stashed away where it still remains in its original packaging, tags on. Over the past 3 years, we’re down to two original bears and the two faux bears. I have no recollection of what happened to the other three……..
Oh, and by the way, I totally just grabbed a button for my blog – too cute to resist! Thanks!
Heather– that makes me feel so much better! Too funny!!
(And the button looks fabulous on your snazzy site!)
Haha, yeah I had the great idea of buying my daughter another one of those little blankies with the animal head and satin around the sides… well she’s 6 (eek!) and still sleeps with both of them! Wasn’t one of them supposed to get lost?!
Ok…so I got here through the crystal ball…and this post is so for me!!! My son had a boo (bear) that was dressed up as a baseball player. He loved his boo. I knew another was going to be a necessity when the original wore out. So I bought another and hid it. He found it. He then had two baseball boos (and a football boo…) He still has them, too. He’s 20…