There was great weeping and gnashing of teeth
It was a sad day in Mudville yesterday. Mumbles, our Manchester Terrier mix, occupied herself upstairs for quite a while. This is never a good thing. Today it was a very bad thing. Here is the evidence:
Megan, my 9 year old, discovered the damage to her green squid. Sum total of damages: missing top part of head, unstuffed, chewed on one leg. Despite assurances that I could fix said damage, Megan still had a very heartfelt cry. "Why?! Why?! Why?!" Mumbles, quite smartly, had made herself scarce during the whole discovery and mourning phase. It has taken me all day to come up with a recovery plan that doesn't involve knitting the squid again. I made the mistake of describing my plan to Megan -- One should never start a sentence about a beloved stuffed animal with "First I'm going to cut off the top of its head." (No more weeping, but if a face could ever embody horror...it was hers.) If if pick up the stitches and just knit up to a point, restuffing before sewing shut, I think green squid (Odd, it never had another name.) will just about be back to normal. Oh, one of the legs needs replacing too but it is just an i-cord so.... I guess I'll cut off the old leg (more cutting off squid parts, yikes) and give it a new one. Wish me luck!
Megan, my 9 year old, discovered the damage to her green squid. Sum total of damages: missing top part of head, unstuffed, chewed on one leg. Despite assurances that I could fix said damage, Megan still had a very heartfelt cry. "Why?! Why?! Why?!" Mumbles, quite smartly, had made herself scarce during the whole discovery and mourning phase. It has taken me all day to come up with a recovery plan that doesn't involve knitting the squid again. I made the mistake of describing my plan to Megan -- One should never start a sentence about a beloved stuffed animal with "First I'm going to cut off the top of its head." (No more weeping, but if a face could ever embody horror...it was hers.) If if pick up the stitches and just knit up to a point, restuffing before sewing shut, I think green squid (Odd, it never had another name.) will just about be back to normal. Oh, one of the legs needs replacing too but it is just an i-cord so.... I guess I'll cut off the old leg (more cutting off squid parts, yikes) and give it a new one. Wish me luck!
Perhaps this will cheer your spawn:
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama.php
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