"Scratchies"

As many of you know, Aubrey has a little obsession with "scratchies" -

meaning the paint/texture that is sometimes of shirts or clothes.

She often likes to scratch it as a way of comfort, 

usually when she is drinking her sippy.

Today during church she had on a really cute dresss...but NO SCRATCHIES!

In the event that she does not have scratchies, she tries to find them

on others or anything she can find.

We tried to encourage her to use her Minnie Bag since there

was some sparklies on it, but that would not work.
And Mommy and Daddy did not have any on their clothes either!

UNFORTUNATELY, she quickly found scratchies...

ON HER PANY! 

So here she is, lifting up her skirt, scratching her panies

since the Dora pattern was textured.

Oh. My. Goodness!

How do you keep a stressed out 2 year old away from her scratchies?!

YOU CAN'T!

She threw a fit and insisted on using her panies as scratchies.

After trying to distract her, finally Steve just held her

(away from most in view)

and let her scratch her panies for a few minutes.

It looked SO inappropriate that all I could do was laugh!

Ugh, it looks like we need to make sure that future outfits

(when we go out in public)

have scratchies on the outside, else she goes on the inside!

LOL.

Sorry, but I had to document!