Paige and I were looking at a Wonder Pets game on the computer with the intention of watching a movie shortly after. We finished the game and I said, "ok, we're going to get a popcorn snack and watch a movie, but first I just need to check something on the computer, so I'll put you down and you just have to wait for a minute". I started to check email or whatever I was doing, and I noticed she had started to go down the stairs. She had gotten halfway down when I told her to be careful and keep going, and that I was coming. I got up to go meet her halfway and she got to the bottom of the stairs fairly quickly (I am not super fast anymore!). She almost immediately began coming back up the stairs quickly while whining and complaining. I asked her what was wrong. "I have a rock in my nose!!", she says. !!!??? What? She had time to quickly shove a rock in her nose? She has never shoved anything in her nose before, so why she chose to shove a rock in her nose on the way to make popcorn is beyond me. And how did that happen in the 20 seconds that she was downstairs by the front door where the rock apparently was?
Anyway, I didn't believe her at first, but was pretty sure I could see something way up there. I assumed it was small and tried to see if I could get it out with tweezers. The tweezers went up and clunk! There was definitely something up there, but it filled the nostril too much to get a grip on it. She was saying "I want it out!" and getting upset. I told her I had to call someone to help me, so I called Grandma Val. While we were on the phone, Paige lost interest in the fact that there was a rock up her nose and started to do things like jump off the couch and ask if we could go make popcorn now. Since she hasn't been sick for a while she has forgotten how to blow out, and couldn't use that as a strategy. Grandma Val was asking me if I pushed on her nostril could I feel the rock, and I couldn't--it was that far up. I was about to take her to the medicenter when I remembered we had a nasal suction thing from when she was a baby. It never seemed very suctiony, but I decided to give it a try. I stuck it against her nose, pushed the bulb and out came the rock! She had a huge smile on her face when that happened! I could not believe how big it was. She obviously put it in a bit, panicked, and tried to get it out, only making it go farther and farther up.
I never in a million years thought she would do something like that! After it was out, we had a nice talk where she agreed she would not put things up her nose anymore.
4 comments:
Oh, it's huge! Hilarious. I'm glad it turned out well in the end.
Ahahahahahaahahaa!!!! This is SO funny!!!! hahahaahahaa! Oh little Paigey, what a smooch. That is the funniest thing I have heard all day!
HOLY MOLY - I had no idea it was that big!!!!!!! Love Gramma val
Carol Ann you can sure tell a story. haha, That was too funny, but serious at the same time. I'm glad Paiged agreed not to do it again. I think just about every family has at least one kid that shoves something up their nose. I can't remember which kid in our family, but I remember that someone shoved uncooked spagetti up their nose. I am not even sure how we got it out. Chalk it up as another experience with children. Glad all is well. Love Gramama
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