Had a sweet moment with Jellybean today. She's gotten to that phase where she's pretty much deathly afraid of painful alcohol swabs on cuts, but unfortunately since eczema runs in the family, open cuts are kind of a norm with us. Literally had to chase her around the house for a few minutes to get her to clean up her cut and she got mad and started bawling before finally giving me the silent treatment. Normally it's pretty frustrating (and Filipino parents are notorious for telling you to suck it up), but thankfully I had an old cut that was still healing myself. Opened up a swab and cleaned my cut in front of her and she asks, rather meekly, "Does it hurt?" And of course, you don't lie. You tell her it does, but only for a bit, and sometimes, blowing on the boo-boo makes it all better. A little patience and understanding goes a long way, as Jellybean's now cleaned-up cut can attest to. 💙 #unclethings
