1.13.2009

Bagged a Rooster!

I found yet another toy for Gemma while visiting my Grandparents this Christmas, a crowing and squeaking rooster mad of intertwined loops.  While Gemma loved it - it was apparently too realistic as she felt a need to kill and pluck it.  After catching it, she bit it vigorously by the back of the neck, shook the bejeezus out of it to snap its neck, and proceeded to pluck out its "feathers".  Hmmm, little spitty bits of stuffed animal fuzz.  
And then I looked away for a few minutes and there were rooster brains everywhere!  She had entirely unstuffed the head of the rooster - no other part was treated to this behavior.  Floppy head and loose stuffing doesn't work so I removed the toy to consider the problem - head removal? Restuff?  Mom came up with the solution, sewing a tough material in a bag shape over the rooster's head!  Now it is back in business and crowing away but without the head Gemma doesn't need to kill it even though it makes all the same noises.

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