Whats the most unusual/cutest thing your child brings to bed

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My dx son 4yrs last night brought his Disney 'Cars' to bed with him, all 19 of them!! !

Sometimes he brings all his power rangers or a book on insects/spiders!! ! I assume this is a security thing, he hasn't taken to a teddy bear, in fact I think he hates them!!

Anyone else have stories on unusual 'comfort' items taken to bed at night time? I think this is soooooo cute xx

hmm well I'm not a parent but I bring my Coraline key with me to bed every night. The other night I was very very upset when I couldn't find it and I barely slept but in the morning my mother helped me find it and my sister had taken it so now I have it again, and I tied a yellow and black string (because yellow is the best) around it and tie it around my wrist so I'll never lose it again! I also sleep with my iPod under my pillow, I don't do this much anymore though. And I have to sleep with all my books I'm reading above my head. =]

I'm not a parent either, but I have to admit I'm a college boy who still sleeps with an apatosaurus plushy. I don't think there's ever been a night in my life where I didn't sleep with something.

I'm twenty and I still sleep with a stuffed porcupine and two small stuffed flamingos. And the remote since I leave the TV on all night.

One of my guys has a major thing for crocodilians, and takes a 2 foot, hard, rubber croc, this weird squishy alligator toy that is about 1 ft long and his Webkinz croc to bed with him. He also has a blanket and small black stuffed dog that both have a similar texture, which he takes to bed, carries around the house, rubs on his lips when stressed out etc.

When he was little he loved to sleep with his metal Thomas trains. Ouch!

if we let him it would be every hard plastic animal and dinosaur he owns. (probably hundreds) We try and pick our battle with about 10, but they are in no way "cuddly"

My 10yr old son takes ; a stuffed toy Kangaroo rat, a stuffed killer whale, his nintendo ds, the remote control, his latest book and a drink bottle. Oh he also often has his pipe cleaner stickmen with him.

My 9 year old picks a transformer (toy not electrical stuff). The "cute" thing would be that he can't sleep with anything on his bed. Right before he falls asleep he will throw everything but himself and his one blanket on the floor.

My 12 yr old son sleeps on top of a sleeping bag in his bed, he doesn't get in it but sleeps on the top and then puts his blanket on top of himself, he likes the silky feeling of the sleeping bag underneath him

my son used to go to bed with an assortment of books and his favorite blanky....daughter is surrounded by stuffed animals & books..........hubby surrounds himself with pillows ( 1 under his head, 1 over his head, 1 between his knees, 1 behind his back, and 1 in front of him)

I love these! Nate hasn't gone to bed with anything unusual but when he was two years old, he liked to sleep with his cars surrounding him - all lined up. At least ten cars.

You see......there is so much to make us smile too!! Great, really great stories. I love the fact that everyone has their own unique 'comfort' toy!! I must admit, I also sleep with a teddy bear (stuffed animal, to those who live in the US), so i really get the need to have something there as a comfort!! Keep the stories coming, they are really making me smile and cheering up my day xx

I do, or did, all of that myself. When I was young I would set up about 20 stuffed animals in a specific order (depending on who was friends with who, they all had personalities) beside my pillow and then I would tuck in my favourites with my "blankie" and go to sleep, usually in a strange position

Now I sleep in a sort of fort of pillows with two on each side of me and one under my head. Sometimes I'll grab a stuffed animal to cuddle, or one of my cats, and I just recently got a 4 foot tall stuffed furry dog that sometimes replaces the pillows on one side of me. Also, one or more cats sleep on top of me most nights but that's their choice so it doesn't count towards my strange sleeping habits.

I also have always had my favourite books around me while I sleep, either on a shelf above my head or beside my pillow.

A couple of years ago, when my son was 3, he fell in love with Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer after having seen the original 1960's animated classic. A few days later, he saw a small stuff deer at the store that he just had to have. It didn't look like Rudolph, more like Bambi but he had to have it anyway. He named him Rudolph and he became his closest companion and was always with him, especially at bed time. We had a ritual where my son would read (or pretend to read) to Rudolph a bed time story, then tuck him in and kiss him. Then I would do the same for my son. It made going to bed easy because we had a nice, predictable routine.

Well, wouldn't you know it, one day my son lost Rudolph and after hours of searching we came to the conclusion that my son accidentally dropped in the parking lot in the mall. Of course I drove around and couldn't find him but I did find the exact same stuffed toy. I brought him home and proclaimed, "I found Rudolph!" My son gave me and the toy this look of "Who the h*ll is that?! That's not Rudolph!" I tried to convince him otherwise buy telling him that I gave him a bath so that's why he looked newer. It didn't work. My son slept with the impostor. Or at least I think he did. For all I know, he stayed awake, watching the stranger in his bed. The next day I found the REAL Rudolph stuffed under the car seat. I switched him for the impostor without my son knowing and a few minutes later I heard, "Rudolph's back! Rudolph's back!" I still have the other one; I guess I'll save it for the grandkids if I'm so lucky.

The other thing he takes to bed is trains. He's a train nut. It used to be toys trains. But then he'd play with them, making really loud "Choo, choo" noises for an hour or more. Then he'd drop them in the dark and then start crying until we found them all and put them back in the bed. That wasn't working so we convinced him to take pictures of the trains to bed instead. That was fine except the rustling of the paper would wake him up or he'd accidentally rip them and then start crying. So our next strategy was to have him pick a train picture, usually something off the Internet, then we print it out on iron on transfer paper and iron it onto a t-shirt. Now he sleep with one train shirt on him, one in his hand like a security blanket, and Rudolph tucked under his chin.

The last thing he wants, usually only when he's sick and has a stuffy nose, is a flower made out of tissues. For some reason my son likes flowers. We have roses in the back and when they bloom, he likes to go and inspect them. I think he's really intrigued by the variety and intensity of the colors. One day his visiting abuelita was playing around and made a origami flower out of tissue paper and gave it to my son. He was trilled. So now on occasion when he's going to bed he'll ask for a flower so I'll fold and twist a piece of Kleenex into something that looks like a carnation. Sometimes he'll for two, one for him and one for Rudolph. I imagine as he's falling to sleep, he's rubbing the flower on his face and looks something like Ferdinand the Bull.

Until he was around 3, Alex carried one of these things with him everywhere, and always had one in hand (even when sleeping):
Plastic spoons (the durable, baby ones)
Wooden mixing spoon
A whisk

We used to have backup ones to switch the ones he'd been carrying all day out to be washed- it was like in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indiana Jones is swapping out the bag of sand for the idol...

Nowadays he has a million and one stuffed toys, but he always needs a small stuffed penguin (who is different from the other penguins, as he can fly...Alex came up with that one..) and a kiss that I blow to him (he cups his hands around it and then puts his head on his hands for sleep.....)

I think anything that he was even remotely attached to when he was smaller we have doubles or triples of as we feared him misplacing his most loved things (baby bjorn who made his spoon of choice wound up sending me a bunch of spoons for backups, at no charge- the particular spoon was otherwise only sold in dish & utensil gift sets, and we only needed so many plates...)

I'm not a parent either, but I bring my little McDonald's Sid doll to bed with me. You can see that sweet little huggy guy in my avatar. :O)