drama.

so i realized that i have not yet told you about the drama we had at the wedding last week.  we had arrived at the reception and cole was hungry since it was way later than he normally ate, so i put him in his little booster seat and started feeding him a piece of bread and some string cheese.  it was SO loud in the room with all the music and people and we were busy chatting with people around the table and people coming up so i was definitely not paying too close attention to what cole was doing because he was just happy and eating.  


i look down and cole looks up at me smiling.  i notice a little something in his nose.  it looked like a booger, but whiter.  see where this is going?  cole had stuck a piece of string cheese up right nostril.  seriously?  here?  at the wedding reception that had barely begun and we were starving?  so, we were faced with a dilemma.  do we try to get it out here or go home to get the aspirator or worse yet, go to the emergency room?  we did not want to go anywhere.  i already said we were staving.  selfish, i know.  but i must admit that i have had to get boogers out of cole's nose before with my finger.  gross?  so be it.  i thought i could get the cheese out of there too.  because the texture is probably close to the same.  still gross?  i know.  it comes with the parental territory.  so, i tried.  i failed.  the cheese was too big (we did not know it at the time though) and i could not get it.  in fact, the cheese succeeded in going up further.  applause to the mother and her brilliant plan. 


fortunately, at that moment, i saw dr. cutbirth.  he is my dentist but is also a world renown oral surgeon.  dentists go to med school don't they?  maybe a version of med school?  i am not really sure.  something to look up later on.  anyways, i digress.  so i explained to dr. cutbirth what had just happened and told him he was our only hope before going to the emergency room or something.  i have no idea what the lasting complications of having cheese stuck up your nose would be but what if he snorted really hard and it went up even further?  but dr. cutbirth quickly pulled out a toothpick from his pocket (thank you Lord for texas men and their need to always carry toothpicks around with them) and he told me to hold cole's arms and torso still.  was he serious?  he leaned cole's head back and held it tight and he took that toothpick and slowly pulled the cheese out of his nose while cole was screaming bloody murder the whole time (although no one could hear it because it was that loud).  note:  i would NEVER have allowed anyone else to do this but since he is a surgeon, i trusted him completely. the cheese was over 1/2 an inch long.  


lessons learned?
- always carry a toothpick
- do not give cole string cheese that i have strung; instead cut it into pieces too large for the nostril
- always watch your kid while they are eating
- know a good surgeon

goofy kid.