What was your favorite toy when you were a child?

My parents gave me a stuffed seal for my second birthday. I imagine that, at the time, it was as big as I was. It's about two and a half feet long (yes, I still have it, though it looks like a memory of it's former glory) and immediately "Sealy" became my best friend, protector, and champion. He was my security blanket, the one that watched over me as I slept the precious little that I did. He went everywhere with me, except school. Sleep overs were left if he was not with me. Almost never washed, I remember the first time I saw another, newer version of him in a store. I didn't recognize him. Did he not always have a neck devoid of stuffing? Was he not always just a little bit smelly? Was his face not always smushed in on one side more than the other?
I brought him to college, just as my parents had teased me about beginning when I was about ten. I bring him out of the box he is packed in (because, really, how do you display a two and a half foot seal?) every once in awhile, wrap my arms around that stuffing-less neck, and smile, thinking of all of the adventures we shared, and hoping that one day he will share adventures with my own childern.