For those that didn't get what I was going for...the stuffed dog in the picture invokes a feeling of safety in a small child, it was not the child who was being personified.
While I think your photo is sweet, for me, the challenge was to use inanimate objects and since your shot has a human in it, I have given it a lower score.
The quality of this photo doesn't quite look right. The child's face looks to me to be over-exposed and the entire image appears to have quite a bit of noise.