Pot Belly …..The Pot Belly Bear

This is Pot Belly, I have had him since 1980 I was 6 years old when my grandparents got him for me. I loved this bear he and my stuffed leopard are the only things I have of my childhood before we moved in with my grands permanently.

This bear went everywhere with me, I took VERY good care of him. I even had jammies with his face on them LOL (come on I was 6) after I outgrew them I put the shirt on him that helped keeping him in such great shape!

Now when you are 6 to however old I was when I put him away; you don’t think I need to keep this in order to pass this down to my children. Yet in 2014 there I was getting into a box I hadn’t opened since I moved out of my Grandparent’s house 22 years ago.

Pot Belly’s Second Life

When I decided to post about him I took a few of the now pictures I wish i could go through all of my pictures and find more through out his second life but trust me it happened.

After the split in 2014 the first weekend away from me Phoebe was having nightmares and there was nothing I could do. (We did change the schedule up a bit to help her and have yet to change it back). When the girls came home and Phoebe was too anxious to fall asleep that night well, this was how the divorce was affecting her she never showed any other signs that she was upset over it. But she was 6 years old and she didn’t know how to express it that’s when I opened the box.

I told her when I was little I had Pot Belly with me at bedtime always and he kept the nightmares away. She took him and hasn’t slept without him since. It’s been over 4 years she is 10 now and yes I might have just ratted her out but I’m pretty sure her friends don’t read my “lame” blog LOL !

So here he is well loved, broken whiskers, one eye and a chewed bottom paw (thanks to Sid)