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Time for the Mickey Doctor
Jared has a stuffed Mickey Mouse that he loves. In fact, he almost loves it too much. After several years, Mickey is showing his age. At one point, we thought we'd lost him at the Jewish Home where we hang out, but a frantic trip all the way back found him sitting on the bench right where Jared left him. After that, I went on eBay to find another one, just in case. Well, now, I think it's time.As we were winding down and getting ready for bed, I asked if he thought Mickey would like to go to the Mickey doctor and get all fixed up. I pointed to the repair where his scarf had come loose from his sweater and had been sewn up by Jared's aunt. I noted the strings hanging from his hands where the decorative stitching had detached. He agreed, but I could see the tears welling up in his eyes at the thought of being apart from his beloved Mickey.
I promised him that Mickey would be back before he got home from school, good as new. He asked if Mickey would like it and I said he would, that I'd even make sure they gave Mickey some ice cream. He told me that Mickey doesn't like ice cream -- his tone implying that even someone as dense as I should know such a basic fact of the universe. So I asked what he would like. He held Mickey close and said that Mickey would like a cookie. I think that can be arranged.
This is turning into a much bigger deal than I expected; I sure hope he doesn't read this before he gets older. Still, I think he'll be happy to have Mickey back to his old nearly-new self and I, for one, will be glad to have him cleaned up. Of course, I don't think we'll ever really get rid of the original. Would you?
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
9-19-2007 @ 11:32AM
Joy said...How imaginative (spelling, sorry???) of you. I wish I'd have thought of such a thing. I would FOR SURE hold on to the original. Someday when he's grown he will love to see that. Let us know how Mickey made out and if he liked his cookie.
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9-19-2007 @ 1:29PM
DaMoKi Bob said...I agree with your thinking. This is why I still have a blanket from when I was 6 or 8 years old... at least what is left of it.
The national pastime is not baseball, it's being a pack-rat, (rentable square footage of storage space in the USA has increased over 700% in the last 20 years.) That's real inflation... but at least we have our stuff!
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9-19-2007 @ 1:35PM
Jill said...Of course I'd keep it!
I planned ahead and got doubles from the start. Each boy has two identical loveys in rotation. Supposedly they can't tell them apart. Except the day that my 6yo said, "That's weird. I cut the tag off Puppy and now it's there again!". (I've had to do a tag-ectomy" on the other one since then, and I think, like knowing about Santa, he'd rather not know why this odd occurrence happened!) If both loveys survive their childhoods, I'll reveal the twin to them sometime. I haven't quite figured that part out yet.
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