If you haven’t read about Jayden’s toenail yet, you might want to read it first. 

When Jayden had me put on his socks after the “surgery”, we found out this evening, that he never wanted to take them off.  The socks were obviously what was making his toe feel better.  I got him back up on the counter this evening to show Royal what I’d accidentally done, and as soon as I got the sock off, he started whining and kicking his foot around saying, ’sock on, sock on’.  After we got a quick glance at the dried, bloody thing, I grabbed the sock and Jayden perked right up.  He stuck his foot out and said, ‘bye bye foot’.

Later on in the evening, Jayden was obviously getting tired (it had been quite a traumatic day), he kept crying over little things, so I suggested, ‘how about a bath?’.  All the sudden, all the tears were gone and it was, ‘come on, mom’ and ‘come on, dad’, as we headed up the stairs.  We get the bath going, start taking his clothes off, ’till he was down to his diaper and socks.  We pull his socks off, and all the sudden he can no longer stand on his hurt foot.  He holds it up in the air saying, ‘toe, toe’.   Even taking off his diaper and mentioning the bath again couldn’t stop the pain of his now dried, bloody toe being exposed to air.  So, I suggested something again.  I said, ‘do you want your socks back on?’.  Jayden said through his tears, ‘yes’ (sniff, sniff).  So, I put his socks back on and I said, ‘do you still want to take a bath?’.   Jayden said, ‘yes’ this time with no tears.  (magic socks, I tell ya).  So, in the bath he went.  Check out the feet.

Getting out of the bath was a little traumatic, since we had to take the wet socks off.  But things got a little easier when Jayden realized his ‘jams’ (pajamas) had ’socks’ (feet pajamas) attached to them.  It was tough getting wet feet into his ‘jams’ though, since he wouldn’t let me touch them with a towel.  Obviously I’ve traumatized him with this whole accidental ripping off of the toenail thing.  I hope he doesn’t have an issue with me (or air for that matter) touching his feet forever.