Comfort in a can (of peanuts)

Charlie has never been one for comfort objects. He does not have a special stuffed animal or book that he cannot bear to part with. He hardly cared when I took his pacifier away when he was eight months old. That changed this week.

We were grocery shopping and Sam gave Charlie a can of boiled peanuts to throw into the cart. Instead of tossing it in, he clung to it. While walking around with it he would randomly give it kisses. He screamed when we had to give it to the cashier to scan. He was in love.

We thought he would let go of it on the car ride home, but when we got home he was still cuddling it. He took it to nap time with him and even took it to a birthday party on Saturday.

Charlie left it in the living room during naptime yesterday and Sam opened and ate the peanuts. Charlie (thankfully) hasn’t missed it yet.

In other news…isn’t this the cutest picture of Noah EVER?