Moosie

Kayleigh most favourite toy when she was a child was a little brown moose (it may have been a reindeer) that her nanny bought for her from AVON - probably cost around $14.95. It was one of those toys with stuffing and the little beanies inside of it. Kayleigh was about 4 when she got it,. the same time that Natassja got a similar one, but a dog, which she cleverly called 'Doggie'.

Kayleigh loved her Moosie, she took it everywhere. It was that well loved his stitches were coming un-done. Moosie had many operations - one in his antler, two legs, and arm and his neck. Kayleigh once left him behind at the Lanyon Marketplace newsagent. She cried when she realised after we went home. I rang the newsagent, who had found it and we went back and picked him up.

One day at Bunnings, Kayleigh had been chewing on Moosie eye, and it fell off. Kayleigh screamed. The pitch of the scream made Terence thing someone had hurt Kayleigh or she had broken something, or someone had tried to grab her. What actually happened is Moosies eye had fallen off. Completely gone - rolling around the floor in the nursery section at Bunnings Tuggeranong. We found poor Moosie's eye, but as a click together one there was no way we could re-attached it. Terence did the best he could by using the end of a black pen and sewing it on as his eye - Kayleigh was happy although Moosie looked a little strange.

Moosie finally fell apart a couple of years ago and we had to say goodbye :(