Toes

[ailbhe]

I trimmed the children's nails again today - that's almost a week since the last time. I'm really hoping that more regular trimming will help. I've always had very straight, tidy toes and toenails, and fairly ok fingernails. Rob has curly toes and bitten fingernails. Linnea bites her fingernails and both children have weird misshapen toes and toenails, though their toes straighten out every time I buy them new shoes.

They used to fight nailclippings like crazy, and so I slacked off, doing one or two nails each time and hoping they all got done in a random pattern over time. But now I'm tackling the problem head-on.

And I've discovered that a small nailclipper is insulting, because it implies that Emer is Not A Big Girl. I guess that's useful data.

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Elena has always fought nail-clippings with great passion, but eventually relented on the fingernails. Toes were still awful - like, with both of us holding her down bodily. I finally have bribed her with nail polish - if she will sit still and let me cut them all to my satisfaction, she can have fingers and toes polished with any color she wants from my arsenal of nail polish (I have a few conventional colors and a handful of wacky ones). She loves this, of course. This morning, I cut her toenails and she marveled that it didn't even hurt!! Then we painted all 20 nails "shiny blue".