Connor has a few favorite stuffed animals, like blue bear, doggie, tiger, and the ultimate one lately: Monkey.  In the recent past, Connor could be easily distracted and be switched from one to another.  But with Monkey, he has been more attached; he calls him “Baby”.  He always needs to find him before bedtime.  Connor is allowed to bring a toy to school for naptime, so he loves to walk in with monkey every morning and places him in his box.  At the end of the day, as soon as he sees me and screams cheerfully “Momma”, then he rushes to his box to pick up monkey to go home.  The other day when we tried to launder Monkey as he was getting so dirty, Connor just did not want to be apart from him.  We encouraged Connor to put Monkey in the washer himself, but he refused.  Logan tried to help too; he told Connor that his Teddy and Dino had their bath recently, and he volunteered to let Teddy go for another one.  We were hoping that Connor would put both Teddy and Monkey into the washer, but he tricked us, only placed Teddy in and took Monkey away.  We finally had to wait until dinnertime to get the job done.