Flying Mut
Inspired by:
Mom saves the day!
Nov 2nd, 2007 by tressays
Here we have pictured my son John at 10 months old during January 1988. He is pictured with Mut. When John was 6 months old, we wheeled him in his stroller up to the toy section of JCP where he picked out Mut. John also named him Mut. Mut is from a line of toys called Puffalump. When relatives saw how much he loved Mut, John was bombarded with Puffalump toys. None of them ever became a favorite and they are somewhere in the attic.
Fast forward seven years.
By now Mut is withered and heavily mended and sporting a homemade green outfit. His original outfit became too worn to stay closed. In those previous 7 years, he seems to have learned to fly.
John and Mut were outside playing. Mut had the odd idea to fly toward a tree and he became stuck. You can see that once stuck, Mut forgets how to fly and he hangs on for dear life. John tried to rescue him as you can see in the image that he is jumping, but he just cannot jump high enough. Mom (me) is called into action. Somehow, we managed to get him down without injury, but of course, a photograph was essential to commemorate the event.
Whoops my story isn’t as long enough!
filler image: My backyard as it looks 11/13/07 
If you have photographic evidence of flying stuffed animals that you rescued after first taking a picture, feel free to copy Tresses, I did.
Donna Young
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My daughter has a Puffalump. She calls it Puffy, and she still sleeps with it.
I’ve had to rescue beloved animals but not from trees and I never did take any pictures
I’ll be sure to do so if this ever comes up around here in the future. Of course now that my son is taller than me and my daughter is getting close to my height it is less likely that they’ll be coming to my rescue - son already does to take care of bugs in the house, still no pictures though 
I don’t have any flying Mut or Snowflake stories, but I have certainly enjoyed yours & Tressa’s photos!
Love the splashes of red in your backyard….further proof that we live on the wrong side of the state!
I have not yet rescued a stuffed animal from a tree, but I am sorely tempted to throw Anemone’s Sherm in one just to watch her jump for it.
John was such a cute baby!
Sheri you do live on the wrong side of the state.
Melanie, you should to that!!
I love it, Donna!
What does possess a child to throw their precious loved one into a tree? 
I remember the Puffalump dolls. I don’t remember who had one, but someone did. They were nice and squishy and good to love on.
I forgot to mention that I love the story.