Real, not for decoration

Last week SPL fell down — which is pretty par for the course these days. He did cry a bit more than usual, but since he’d been playing in the dirt, I didn’t notice his scrapes until a little while later when they started to bleed (oops!). Thankfully it was just his left hand and a small scratch on his arm.
He’s been really good about wearing his band aids for the most part (he was briefly in the "band aids as decoration" phase but that seems to have waned) and letting me keep his hand doctored.
And he does love the Sesame Street gang so that helps :-).