Transitional Objects and Separation Anxiety

Since Linus has started with assisted walking, he clings more to Lovey and needs Bink in his mouth much of the time. If he is standing at the settee and playing with toys on it, I have to make sure he has Lovey or Bink before I can leave the room. If I don't, he gets distressed and cries. When I sit on the floor by him while he plays at the settee, he will turn and step toward me every few minutes just to touch me. Then he returns to playing. Last night he woke up twice in the night and it was hard to get him back to sleep. He wanted us to hold him and he cried rather hard when we put him back in the crib. We tried just leaving him there to cry himself to sleep, but it didn't work. We finally just brought him to bed with us. Needless to say, we are all tired today. He didn't seem to be teething so we wonder if he woke up and had separation anxiety. Raising a kid is a lot of guesswork.

In this picture he is standing by the pants I sewed for him. I'm disappointed in how they turned out. They are too big in one respect and too small in another. I was so proud of making him nice pants, but now I think I'll stick to buying him pants. At least they'll fit and he won't look goofy.