Ode to Two Bear

**Two Bear was a gift from my great aunt & uncle when I was two.

It was two o' clock in the morning and I've had a bad dream, the kind that makes you afraid to go back to sleep. So I tiptoe in to Madelynn's room to check on her. And laying in her crib with her is my Two Bear. I stop for a moment to think of all my memories and the places Two Bear has been with me and all the fun and comforting times I had spent with that bear. Loveys are sometimes call security or transitional objects because they help children feel secure as they make the transition from mom's safe embrace to the bigger, scary world. It made me happy to think that Two Bear could help comfort my sweet Madelynn. So as I watched Madelynn sleeping with Two Bear in her arm, somehow it made me feel a little safer and I could go back to sleep.