Tiger has a new trick.
It is called: SCRATCHIES!!! And it involves, well, scratching. Specifically of her nose and sometimes chin. With her tiny fingernails.
HARD.
Until, sometimes, there is blood on her little Tiger face.
Cackle Mummy and Daddy Bear are usually very encouraging of Tiger and any way she chooses to express her little self. We clap when she rolls. We cheer when she pushes her little self up while on her tummy. We even applaud "burpies".
But Scratchies? We are notsomuch happy with this new game.
We are now filing Tiger's little fingernails every morning. We are re-filing, if needed, after bathies. We are mittensing for every nap.
But still, somehow, Scratchies are happening.
Tiges now has two war wounds on her little nose and one on her little chin. She looks as if she has been crawling through a particularly brambly bramble patch. And, while Daddy Bear keeps assuring Cackle Mummy that a scratch here and there is NORMAL, Cackle Mummy hates seeing blood on her baby.
Even if her baby seems blissfully unconcerned.
But then, Cackle Mummy reminds herself that it is only a scratch. That there are parents in the world dealing with much worse injuries and illnesses and even, as we have seen so tragically over the past days, the loss of their precious little ones.
It's only a scratch.
It's normal.
And Tiger DOES NOT CARE.
And, somehow, the Scratchies only serve to make Tiger look even cuter. They're little battle scars. They make her look tough.
And she will get more Scratchies, bruises and scars as she grows up (especially if she has inherited her Uncle Lil Bro's daredevil genes). She will fall from trees. She will trip on her laces. She will taunt Mephistopheles Danger Gordon until he whips out his ninja claws.
It is all normal. It is part of life. Part of experience and, even though CM will wince whenever she sees blood on her tiny girl, it will mean Tiger is living and experiencing.
And that is lovely.
~ Love, Miss Cackle x
5 comments:
Mmmmm wonder why she is scratching, have you tried some vaseline or body butter on the chin and nose, perhaps the skin is dry.
Other than that I think you have it all covered, nails trimmed, filed, gloves etc.
Good luck
Glad you were feeling well enough for a blog. Look foreward to seeing the Poppets battle scars. Love her and her mummy
Poppy S
Her skin isn't dry at all. It's more an "I'm tired so I'm going to rub at my eyes and my nose just seems to be in the way ... but now I like it!!!!" thing :o)
Hopefully they're gone by the time she sees you!!! Blogged from bed today :o)
They do stop doing it to themselves eventually - a lot of it is just about hand control :) Little rascals, always making us worry in one way or another!
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