a story of one toy

What can make any child and especially a sick one happy? A new toy.

This time it was a toy, which we were to make ourselves.

My daughter A. got a present, which we never came around to use.

Here's the mysterious box.

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A.was quite determined announcing that she was on the way to make her own “Boli-boli” – teddy’s name on the package, which in Polish means ”hurts-hurts.”

We started with some linguistic elaborations. After some thinking A. has announced: the name “Boli-boli” is similar to ”Aj-bolit” (for those who has no idea what I am taking about: Aj-bolit in Russian means ”auch – it hurts” and it is a name of a doctor in a famous poem by Chukovski).

“A sick bear for a sick girl” – A. concluded.

We unpacked all the parts and it was time to figure out which was which.

As we found the head A. decided that “Boli-boli” lacked eyes and a nose.

Buttons came to be useful. After quite an exciting search we had Pink eyes, glittery eye, eyes in the shape of a baby bottle, in a shape of a butterfly, and a train.

We had to get it right though! I had to ask A. which colors the eyes could be: green, grey, blue and hazel, was the answer. A. gave it a second go and produced two huge blue eyes and a brown nose.

 Meanwhile I was sewing on the buttons, “Boli-boli”'s legs run off. We had to be quick!

A. was determined to try to sew herself. This is how it looked like.

After puffing and sighting the first leg was attached to the tummy. The second one followed.

 The bandage came last and A was all set to play a nurse with her new patient.

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