Why can't there be a Girl Guide badge

for applying Tegaderm? This would be a useful life skill. Down with birdhouses and knitting and skating...

Sha has his Christmas photo tomorrow and I can't exactly take him looking like the littlest Hobo! So Sha and Ma wrestle on the couch with the Tegaderm. Sha is getting smarter by the day (or night as the case may be) and spends the entire time, after midnight, picking at his tape on his nasal prongs. Tegaderm...for those of you who have never had the pleasure...happens to be the stickest substance on earth. It clings to itself and will not come apart, resulting in another one having to be cut and reapplied. Sha is very quick and is very aware that he does not like having his prongs taped. I think it is the only time I have witnessed him trying to get away from me!

His Tegaderm, this morning was all curled around the edges, which means, during the quiet of night, Sha has picked at it and then it has picked up dirt and lint and some black stuff....really not the things Christmas photos are made of.

Sha is now ready to go for tomorrow am...if we could only agree on an outfit.