So, we just got home from Texas on Thursday night and, like most mothers, I was hot to trot on the laundry because really... kids are disgusting and just a tad dirty. I noticed that Avery's favorite blanket (which she must sleep with every night, a la Linus) was ridiculously smelly and gross and needed an urgent trip into the washer. I was able to sneak the blanket away from her and give it a good washing just in time for her to ask for it for bedtime. I presented the newly washed blanket to her and right away she holds it to her face and sniffs in all the yummy laundry smell and promptly pulls it away from her face and yells, "YUCK... that's disgusting!" I was so confused and said, "What's disgusting? I just washed your blanket, it should be clean." She then throws herself to the floor, crying and says, "Noooo, you not supposed to wash it, it smells disgusting now!"
Hmmm, I guess she likes the scent of sweat and her own personal body odor rather than the smell of Downy's Garden Fresh fabric softener. Weird. That's my girl.
They're all the same! I have a friend - her and her hubby are both gastroenterologists... her little boy grabbed her hubby's silk boxer shorts after being washed and they became his "comfort blanket" and was called "biba". One day he cried because it had been washed and yelled "no Mummy, I wan't SMELLY biba!" which didn't sound too great being as they started life as boxers!
Posted by: Lins | November 28, 2009 at 12:45 AM
HA! I love this story! She can borrow Fischer's special blue blankets... they often smell mysteriously of pee! Although, I must say... he gets obsessed with me washing them, because he doesn't like them to be stinky or dirty. Plus he wipes his nose with them and drags them along the floor till they are covered in dog hair - so they definitely NEED to be washed often.
Posted by: Lisa | December 20, 2009 at 11:53 PM