Inventory

A count of the stuffed animals on Fiona's toddler bed Sunday night:

• Rojo (a red dog)
• Sunshine Dog (yellow dog)
• Tia cat
• Tio cat (two small stuffed cats from her aunt & uncle)
• Sleeping Pooh
• Sprinkles (I don't know what he/she is)
• Uniqua (from the Backyardigans)
• Roo
• Tigger (a very large stuffed animal)
• Big Eeyore (a very, very large stuffed animal)
• Baby Eeyore
• A small Eeyore
• An even smaller Eeyore
• Figment the Dragon (very large stuffed animal)

So, that's fourteen stuffed animals, including three that would dominate the space on my bed, let alone Fiona's.

In the middle of the night she flung her door open and came into our room to announce "My dragon fell!" Why she figured it was easier to walk into her parents' room than to just pick the dragon up off the floor herself is beyond me, but I suspect toddlers are instinctively driven to look for the way that most inconveniences their parents.

As we put Fiona (and Figment) back to bed, she saw Owl sitting on top of the box of animals. That made fifteen.