meet bridie bear

Quincy is enamoured with the seven-and-a-half-year-old neighbor girl, Bridie. Often in the afternoon they meet up at the fence while the three dogs have a barking contest. She hides under the stairs and crawls under our deck and pokes sticks through for him to grab. He likes to copy her and once wanted me to give him his digger shirt off the wash line so he could show it to her. If she is playing in her backyard, he just stares. She has friends over to play a lot, and if we're out, she always brings them up to the fence to introduce us. She invited him over once to play and he didn't want to come home.

When we walk past her driveway, he points and says "Bridie". And when we are on the deck and she isn't out, he goes looking for her.

He definitely thinks she is all that.

He started playing with this bear the other day. When I told him that Bridie and her family gave it to him when he was a baby, he aptly named the bear Bridie. Now Bridie Bear goes for rides on his ladybug and occasionally shares his snack.

So without further ado, meet Bridie Bear...