Jacey was born the day after Easter. So, she of course received many stuffed animal bunny rabbits as gifts. When she was about 3 months old I started putting one of the bunnies in her bed with her whenever she would go to sleep. I thought it would help her forget about her binky that kept falling out. If I had only known then how attached she would become to the bunny I would have NEVER done that. That poor bunny was attached to her side from then on for the next 2+ years. I can’t tell you how many countless hours where spent searching for the dang thing when it was lost just so that she would/could sleep through the night. Some nights Jacey would wake up balling because her bunny got lost under the covers and she couldn’t find it. We tried many times to replace it with new bunnies and even bought the exact same one when Easter came around again. She would have nothing to do with them. We had to take that darned thing with us everywhere she went; church, nursery, vacations, etc.....
I remember one night we searched high and low and couldn’t find it only to find out she had left it in my friend’s car. What a miserable night that was. She cried herself to sleep and then came and slept with us during the middle of the night.
Now, the bunny wasn’t all that bad. It definitely came in handy when I needed to bribe Jacey to behave or when she got hurt and needed comfort only the bunny could give her. Sooo many people told me to just get rid of the darn thing and let her get used to not having it. I just couldn’t do it. I have to admit that I was just a tad bit attached to it as well. The poor thing made it through countless travels, chewing from the dog, nights out in the gutter and 100’s of washings. What it eventually couldn’t withstand was Thad’s quad and the dog :-) Last month Thad was at his parent’s house and he took Jacey with him for a ride on his quad. Somehow Jacey touched the exhaust pipe with the bunny and burned it quite badly. Even so we still didn’t get rid of it. I actually bought batting, attempted to cut the burnt parts off, re-stuffed it and sewed it back together. It looked better than it did but was still pretty dang ugly. Then a few days later Jacey took it with her outside where Sassy (our big fat Bull Dog) sank her teeth into it and bit the butt off. At that point I just threw in the towel. I was not about to attempt to sew it back together again. So, Thad took Jacey outside and they proceeded to “shoot” the bunny with a bb gun. She thought it was funny (at the time) and at that point we said the bunny was going to heaven and she wouldn’t see it again. Surprisingly enough she has been fine every since. She has asked about it a few times but there were no tears or sleepless nights. Hallelujah!!!!! She has replaced the bunny with countless other stuffed animals (right now it’s a monkey) but none of them can take its place and cause quite the same amount of drama. I’ve included some pictures of the bunny during different phases of its life.
Bye, Bye dear Bunny. Thanks for the memories :-)
If you look closely you can see it in the bottom of the shopping cart
At Sea World in 20007
On the way to Schnepf farms
In the photo shoot (Of course)
Pictures of the bunny as it is now (We still have it, it's just hidden away)
2 comments:
R.I.P. Dear bunny.
That is too funny. Only Thad would shoot the stuffed bunny with a BB gun, but hurray for you that it's gone :)
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