I feel the need to record this for posterity. Plus then when I send a packet of Band Aids (wiggles ones at that) to Andrew and Christine when their first baby is 3ish there will be recorded somewhere why I am being so mean!
So we have band aid issues.
It all started when we stopped over in Sydney at Andrew and Christine’s place on the way home from Queensland. My newly three year olds didn’t know what a band aid was before that and boy do I miss the innocence! I have to admit I don’t even really know how it came about but for some reason one of the girls was offered a Wiggles Band Aid by Uncle Andrew and it has been all downhill from there.
Now they are obsessed with band aids.
Every day they find a new injury that HAS to have something stuck on it. And every night we have the same dramas about said band aid coming off in the bath!
I tried to instigate a ‘no blood no band aid’ rule… but that was never going to work. Izzy would go to great lengths to convince me there was in fact blood… she would squeeze her finger until it went bright red exclaiming ‘look red blood’. And Zoe would be fully convinced that that dot of texta on her palm was in fact blood.. despite the fact that is was green. And there is no arguing with a three year old on these matters.
“It is blood.” that is the only response you will get…. oh along with some wailing about neeeeeeeeeeeeding a band aid and it hurrrrrrrrrrrrting.
These days I can’t even mention the words ‘be careful you might hurt yourself’ without it being an open invitation for a band aid.
“But you said I hurt myself”
“No I said you MIGHT hurt yourself”
“Look I did hurt myself I neeeeeeeeeeeeed a band aid”
I swear we are keeping the band aid companies in business. I just don’t feel it is worth the fight to not give them a band aid, even though part of me recoils at the idea and wonders what with the band aids and their love of medicine what kind of hypochondriacs I am raising here.
At least so far I have NOT been suckered into buying Wiggles band aids…. or any other band aid with some cutesy kiddy picture on it designed to totally suck you in to paying 5 times more than you normally would. My mother has though! I have however been suckered into the multi shaped packs and of course everyone wants the spots or squares and so we are left with loads of boring strips that simply will not do for that ‘spot of green texta on the finger that is about to fall off if it doesn’t get a spot band aid on it this absolute second’.
Band Aids and Whoopee cushions… Andrew and Christine I am keeping a list you know!
what, no reference to the little mole book, or the little inside out elephant book yet?.
where do I send the really LOUD toys?
:)
LOL…oh gotta love Wiggles bandaids, don’t tell them but there is also Hi5, Shrek, Princess, Mickey Mouse, Neon Colours…
ah see the Mole book we love and I think we’d have the current poo obession with or without that.. the elephant book they simply don’t get and their Great Auntie Di has dibs on noisey toys!
Oh and my sheltered children don’t know what half of those things are yet Jodie… but I always wisk them past the band aid isle just in case! LOL
Mitchell is *exactly* the same with bandaids so I was PMSL at your description :) I also have the “no blood, no bandaid” rule and he’s always trying to convince me “but it’s beeeeeeeeding, Mum!” Luckily DH gets them for free from work. Oh, and don’t get suckered into the picture ones, they don’t stick as well either, so you have to replace them 10 x as often. At least Mitchell likes “Daddy work bandaids”…
Ahhh will blushingly admit that we have Cars bandaids here (as well as Wiggles ones LOL) and I LOVE them!
The Cars ones are a different brand though and they are clear and they do not come off for days and days so at least we’re only going through a few a week now!!
hehe Lauren is quite obsessed with them too, but not to that level … YET! Maybe I should nip it in the bud now!
My girls are 1 years old and I am now hoping we can make it through their entire childhood without introducing any bandaids. Great post.
So funny, the things kids get a kick out of! What about stickers? Cheaper, and they come in all kinds of fun shapes and colors. Or would they feel jipped? Maybe you could put a little piece of cotton in the middle of one . . . Or you know, just go with the bandaids. Surely they’ll grow out of it eventually, right?
Don’t worry Kate, it’s just a stage LOL. My kids insisted on Wiggles & Simpson bandaids and i dutifully kissed and covered invisible scratches and texta spots but then all of a sudden they couldn’t care less about them and now they are sitting in the bathroom cabinet, unloved and unwanted – sigh!
Have a great weekend
Amandac
LOL Kate yes been there and done that and thankfully it’s not so bad now they are older…..lol. Although I still have to have bandaids in the house because they are used very regular and every now and again we need to get the pretty ones…..lol and 3 of my kids are teens. :)
Ummm….you’re welcome! Any other bad habits that you’d like us to introduce your kids to? :-D