Blanket Dress

When Sarah was born, she received two identical pink minky blankets as gifts. I didn't think we needed anymore blankets, we had a ton from when Andy was a baby, and I especially didn't think we needed two of the same blanket. However, they were pink, and we didn't have any pink, so I was sure I could find a use for them. It's a good thing I kept them around, because she loved this blanket and having two meant that I could wash them and rotate them and when she started school she could have one in her backpack for nap time and still leave one on her bed.

She wasn't one of those kids that had to take the blanket everywhere with her, that would have driven me crazy plus she had Patches the cat for that (we'll talk about Patches another time), but if she was home and was cold or watching tv or in bed, she had to have it. We had to take it on trips because she couldn't sleep without it. She really loved that blanket.

A couple years ago a friend invited me to a Kelly's Kids party. Kelly's Kids is children's clothing. Adorable, but way expensive. I wanted to help my friend out but didn't really want to buy anything until I saw a pink minky dress that looked exactly like Sarah's blanket. I knew instantly she was going to love it. I wasn't wrong. She called it her blanket dress, and she wanted to wear it all the time. It really is a winter dress, because it's long sleeved and minky, but she tried to get me to let her wear it in the summer. She wore it until it wouldn't fit anymore and then she was so sad.

So this Christmas I bought her a new blanket dress in her favorite color, purple. The best part is she is now old enough to wear the double sizes, 4/5, so she will be able to wear it for a couple of years. She was so excited to put it on that Amanda got mad and jealous. Seriously. So I went into the buckets of Sarah's old clothes and found her pink blanket dress. It was a little big on Amanda, but we folded over the sleeves and it fit well enough. She wore it the whole day and they were both so happy.

Can't all of life's problems be solved with a new dress? Maybe not, but for them it seemed to do the trick.