Cocokid#2 when she was about 14 months suddenly developed this runny nose and really bad breath. I found myself apologizing to the nursery leader, "She's teething, I'm really sorry about the breath." Finally after almost a week, it got so bad I grabbed her by the face and yelled, "What the freak is the matter wi---" and I see this mass up one of her nostrils. I go get the tweezers and pull out... are you ready? ... a piece of grey, rotting chicken!

The smell went away immediately. This girl also stuck dry beans in her ears (that we were playing sorting games with) that I was able to get out and swallowed all her brother's pool balls from his miniature pool table - ball bearing thingeys that were painted... He came in and asked me where all his balls were. I went in to the dining room table and *she* was under the table and I thought, "Oh, great." Took her in for an x-ray and there they were, all over her intestines, like 10 of them. I had to check her diapers to make sure they all came out. But cocokid#1 never played with his pool table again.

Wow! I didn't know kids liked to put things up their nose so well.

Hiccups, your children have scientific minds!

hiccups wrote:

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Yuck, Coco. And speaking of yuck, my oldest just said, "I wonder what poo would look like under the microscope..."

NO. Just NO.

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That could be a lucrative career choice manifesting early that you could be squashing there...  Someone has to be a proctologist, just like someone has to be the lab tech to look at the poo slides...

Not only boys...I always used to stick the little colored pegs of our Lite-Brite set up my nose and had to go to the doctor to get them removed. It took like 5 nurses to hold me down, and I was only 4!

That's one of my mom's favorite stories.

Perhaps I could use the excuse that I have 3 older brothers?

Well, I wanted to make sure I knew where they were, for starters. The clinic had the x-ray "on display" for laughs for like 3 months... too bad I don't know how to post pictures up here... Anyway, I think the balls may have had lead paint. And about coins, the Dr. said not to worry unless they start giving you change...

I think if you've got something foreign stuck in yer intestines or colon, you're more likely to get cancer or other "odd" growths, too. Sort of like people who've had colon cancer shouldn't eat raspberries or blackberries because the seeds get "stuck" sometimes and cause problems down the road...

I couldn't find whichever thread talked about scouts... I just wanted to mention that "today's featured article" on Wikipedia, is about Robert Baden-Powell

-- Edited by PollyAnna at 23:18, 2007-07-31

So do you think that it warps kids to tell them to just tough it out?

What if you tell them they'll have to sleep in the bathtub if they don't empty the dishwasher before they go to bed...

--Ray

Besides, blood, boys also do messy very well. And when your two year old comes up with orangish yellow all over himself and announces he's been painting, this is not a good thing. This is punishment for withholding coco puffs.

I am thankful that there were only two eggs left in the carton.

Yesterday I turned my back for a moment and the two and a half year old had this huge pile of flour going on the flour. Our german shepherd's head was white from sticking his muzzle in it.

Not even half as many as 50 cats. And no, he isn't neutered. He loves kitties, even though they don't love him.
We keep meaning to get him neutered one of these days.

Okay, so I'm with the two little boys at WallyWorld today seeing if my 4.19 bread went down. It did, to 4.16. So I bought up like all the loaves on the shelf! J/K. Anyway, we run into this gal from the ward and we chat a little bit. As we're walking away, the 3yo says, in his normal voice which is like 20 decibels higher than everyone else's normal voice, "Is that a girl or a boy?" Yeah.