First Band-aid

I'm not really sure how, but Tyler took a chunk of skin off his toe yesterday. He took a tumble as I was getting him dressed. He may have dropped a toy on his foot. Or maybe he had a blister that I hadn't noticed and the skin came off.

Either way, he doesn't normally cry, even when he skins his knees, so when he started howling, I started looking for a reason. It didn't take me long to find it. There was blood all over his little foot. I cleaned him up and went looking for the Band-aids. I'd stocked up on Snoopy and Nemo Band-aids at the grocery store after he came home from the lake all scraped up.

So I wrapped Snoopy around his toe. He wasn't happy about it, so I put another Band-aid around the same toe on the other foot. I figured if he tried to take one off, he would focus on the one that didn't hurt.

And I turned on Clifford, the Big Red Dog to distract him. It worked. But as soon as Clifford was over, he was pulling at the band-aids, so I took them off.

I thought Snoopy was supposed to make it feel better! At what age do they start coveting band-aids for imagined boo-boos? My son won't even tolerate them to keep the blood off my carpet and sofa!