TATTY TEDDY

Every child has to have at least one teddy bear so, I had been looking for a really special one for Dominick. I found this gray teddy bear with a blue nose and thought it was so cool because you rarely see gray teddy bears. Sooooo...of course I bought it for him. Well the bear came with a little story explaining how he became gray with a blue nose, and I thought it was even more special after reading the story.

A Grey Bear With a Blue Nose?

The oldest smallest house you can imagine was about to be knocked down. All the things that once made the house nice and cozy had been thrown outside and piled up in the front garden, from the soft springy bed the owners slept in, to the old wooden floorboards they used to walk on...

...and even, surely by some mistake, a little brown teddy bear. He was trapped amongst all the other unwanted things, and couldn't move.

Then one day...a very, very cold day, something fell from the sky,...a little snowflake. It landed on the teddy bear's little nose and was then followed by many more. He began to get very cold, very cold indeed. More and more snow fell, heavier and heavier. The little bear was now so cold that his nose started turning blue...

...so cold that his brown fur started turning grey. He was cold, unloved and all alone in the world and felt very, very sad.

Winter finally passed and the weather got warmer. One beautiful spring day, a little girl was playing by the house, when she spotted the gray bear in the pile of unwanted things.

He was like no other bear she had ever seen, and she pulled him out from where he was trapped. She dusted him down and lifted him high in the sky to look at him. "A grey teddy bear...with a blue nose?" she thought, "How strange!"

The teddy bear wanted to cry. He thought she didn't like him and would throw him back with the other unwanted things.

"But he's lovely!" she continued, and she fell completely in love with him. She ran home as fast as her little legs would carry her, to see if her grandma could patch him up, as a lot of his stuffing had fallen out, and he was very much in need of repair.

She looked on as her grandmother replaced his stuffing and patched up his holes. His stitches had started showing where the fur had worn away, but the little girl thought he looked perfect.

It was all cozy and warm in the little girl's house and the bear felt cozy and warm in his heart. However, his nose was still blue and his fur was still grey, and they would never return to brown. He was unique amongst teddy bears. The little girl gave him a great big hug. She loved him more than anything else in the world...her little, grey, blue nosed...

...tatty teddy.

And here is Dominick's first Teddy Bear (Tatty Teddy)!!!