The tale of Woody and Buzz

Allie loves Toy Story. LOVES Toy Story. If we put any of the Toy Story movies on, Allie is mesmerized.

We started a tradition of buying Allie a Christmas ornament every year. When we went out to see Santa the Thursday before Christmas in Carbondale, we stopped by JC Penney to look for this year's ornament. Toward the top of one of the display trees was a Woody ornament, which we thought was perfect since Allie is obcessed with Toy Story!

Grandma Durso also bought her a stuffed Clarice from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. She wouldn't let go of either Clarice or Woody! We had to sneak them away from her when it was time to see Santa.

We got home and Woody slept on the table next to the crib while Allie slept. Woody was never far away.

She even hung Woody on the Christmas tree!

Woody was plastic and part of his boot broke off. That didn't phase Allie!

One of the things Woody says in the movie is "there's a snake in my boot." Allie started saying "snake boot" over and over after we said it once! She kept calling Woody buddy.

But alas, Woody didn't leave her presence for two days, and as we were packing up Saturday morning, Woody disappeared. We looked all over the house and couldn't find him. We thought he either got packed or thrown away. Now that most of our stuff is unpacked, I'm sad to say he must have gotten thrown away :-(

Allie's asked for "Buddy" a few times since we got home. We change the subject. I'd like to try and find a replacement ornament but I don't know how much luck we'd have since it was on clearance in the first place and now Christmas is over. We'll have to get another ornament for this year. We're also going to look into getting a real Woody doll!

We lost one toy but gained another! Today at daycare one of the girls gave Allie a Buzz Lightyear to calm her down at naptime. She's been climbing out of the pack n play she sleeps in at daycare lately but she was occupied with Buzz and fell asleep and actually had a good nap!

Once she got up Buzz was glued to her the way Woody had been last week. We asked Allie who that is and she says "Buzz Year!" It was fun watching her run around flying Buzz and shouting "to infinity and beyond!" with her.

Buzz is bigger than Woody so I'm confident he won't go missing! He's going back with her to daycare tomorrow to hopefully continue to occupy her at naptime so she doesn't climb out of the crib.