Whether your baby’s lovey is currently your TV’s remote control (see that hilarious photo recipe in my book, Your Baby in Pictures), a baby doll, or a family of stuffed squirrels (you can’t make this stuff up), you MUST capture kids and loveys.

FUNNY STORY BEHIND THE SQUIRRELS

Every child’s lovey has a special story.  You want to capture the heart of that story.  You may be asking ‘What’s the story with the family of squirrels?’  After all, many kids find teddy bears to be their loveys.  But squirrels can work too, yes?

I would always see these two squirrels playing in our backyard, running up and down our large evergreen tree.  One day I made a comment to Brian about it.  I told him how amazed I was by all the energy those two squirrels had.  They never stopped playing!  He paused and looked at me a little funny.  He said “You know that those aren’t probably the same two squirrels you see every time.  For all we know, there could be a dozen squirrels in the yard.  But they all look the same.”  I don’t know how else to explain my reaction other than I felt like someone had CRUSHED my imagination!  More than two squirrels?!  What?!

The Birth of Flopsy and Mopsy Adventures

Well, I redeemed the situation the only way I knew how.  Storytelling.  The kids were still sharing the same room in bunk beds, so every night I would tell them a story about two adventurous squirrels named Flopsy and Mopsy who lived in our backyard.  Flopsy was the more mature squirrel that was always having to bail Mopsy out of trouble. Their adventures started with our backyard as the setting, but as we traveled, Flopsy and Mopsy traveled too.  Whenever we’d see two squirrels run up the evergreen tree, we’d stop homeschool and cheer Flopsy and Mospy on.

A year ago, I spotted these stuffed squirrels in the window of a teddy bear shop.  I realized I had been telling the kids Flopsy and Mospy stories for years.  I had to get the squirrels for Blaze because he loves stuffed animals like nobody’s business.  Ever since then they have become his loveys through and through. He calls them “his family of squirrels”.  How can I NOT capture it?!