"my house!"

madelyn has had another companion besides "friend" for the past week or so. i hadn't mentioned it because she seems to pick one thing each day that is going to be friend's plus one and they tend to switch every few days. usually it is a stuffed animal or a toy, but this one is so odd that i thought it deserved its own post. she has selected the ceramic (or something like that) house that holds bible verse cards on the kitchen counter. it is maybe three or four inches tall and three inches wide - and hard. she takes it everywhere. it is her choice to bring in the car (because we don't let friend ride in the car), it must be accounted for throughout the day, comes to bed for sleeping, and gets described in detail at meals. she counts the windows, points out that one window is "round" or a "circle", identifies the "chimney", "door", "bird", etc.

it seems like it would be uncomfortable to snuggle up in bed with such a hard item, but madelyn insists on having it with her. i take it out of her bed when i check on her after she is asleep because i don't want it to wake her up by poking her. but it is in one of her hands when she comes out of her room in the morning or after a nap.

her beloved companion's name - "my house". love.