…and I had to take him to the Doc to get it removed.
Here’s a picture! (Of the shoe, on tissue, with my finger for perspective)
I got a semi-frantic call from the missus. Here’s what transpired. My daughter was playing with her Barbies, the boy got hold of one of the little shoes, and was putting it in him mouth. The missus told him to stop, and asked him to hand it over. Instead he ran under the dining room table and when SmithWife was finally able to coax (drag) him out, the shoe was nowhere to be found. But my son kept sneezing and rubbing his nose. SmithWife, fearing the worst, asked him where the shoe was. He pointed to the appropriate place and exclaimed “Nose!”. Then sneezed again.
So, she called the Pedi, while I made arrangemnts to leave the office early and help out. We were the stars of the Pedi office, as everyone present wanted to get a first-hand look at the little boy with the shoe in his nose! The nurses were all pretty cool about it, I was joking about it. The doctor was an ass. But he got the shoe out, so I guess that was his perogative.
About a year ago, my boy stuck a crayon in his nose, but it didn’t stick. More recently, he drank from the toilet. His other exploits include pulling the living room and dining room drapes down. This past week he finally figured out he can climb right out of his crib, and has done just that approximately 1,000 times since Sunday night. My wife and I are sleeping with one eye open these days.
Winston Smith aren’t little boys great. You never know what they are going to do next. My son pulled a 27" Sony TV down on himself when he was only 18 months. Tragedy was only adverted as the TV stand hit into a box with a monitor and the TV slid right over his head. The TV alas did not survive. My Nephew as a 3 year old somehow got my sister’s car into neutral and it rolled down the driveway and into the road. Thankfully no cars were coming.
Family joke that originated with my dear departed grandmother: “Don’t stick any beans up your nose…”
Last week, I heard a page for the local EMS service. A 2 y. o. kid stuck a bean up his nose. I was still laughing 10 minutes later because of 1) Granny; 2) my kid at that age stuck a peanut butter sandwich in the tape slot of the VCR; and 3) I’m a student EMT.
My aunt, for some reason, cautioned my sister not to stick beans up her nose. And so my sister stuck a jelly bean up her nose. My sister told this story with her two year old son present. He stuck a bead up his nose. I assume at some point my nephew will tell the story to someone and then a child will nosify something else that is close to, but not quite, a bean.
The bead thing required going to the hospital to have it removed. This same nephew also ran away repeatedly between the ages of one and two. Yes, one and two. He often took my little brother, who is a year old than him, with them. We had to have very elaborate means to keep them from sneaking out.
Eh. Reminds me of a story. My dad was delivering something to a friend and little three year old me started playing with the handbrake. I managed to get it off enough that it rolled down the hill into a tree. Beyond the tree was a sheer 100 foot drop onto a beach.
From the ages of 3 to 10, my brother used to sleepwalk and leave the house. He would get up, get dressed, open the door, unlock the front door, and leave the freaking house all while asleep.
My mother had some truly elaborate locks n’ booby traps in place to prevent this.
This is why I love the Dope so much. I just got off a three-hour conference call with Sweden to troubleshoot a software problem, and for relaxation I get to eat lunch and read “My son stuck a Barbie shoe up his nose.”
When Hallboy was in preschool, he had a habit of sticking tiny rocks in his ears. The first time, the peditrician’s office sent us to the ER to have them remove it. The second time, the peditrician’s office sent us to the ER to have them remove it. The THIRD time, the peditrician’s office had purchased a Water Pik (which is essentially what the ER was using to flush it out of his ear), so we didn’t have to make trip to the ER.
He’s almost 13 now and nothing goes near the ears (except for his hair, which is growing over his ears, and down to his shoulders…) :dubious:
See, this thread relaxes and entertains you. I have a seven-month-old son who’s about to start crawling. This thread scares the ever-living crap out of me :eek: .
My sister used to stick those magnets from the refrigerator letters up her nose. I don’t think she ever had to go to the doctor, though.
I once saw a comic who had a great bit about his brother shoving Cocoa Puffs up his nose. Finally he reached his nose’s capacity and couldn’t get the Cocoa Puffs out. So Mom had the solution: just grabbed his nose and pinched a few times. Crunch, crunch, crunch. “And then my brother started crying, and chocolate syrup started running out of his nose!!!”
When The Kid was little she had a serious thing for orange tic tacs. Loved them so much she wanted to ingest one nasally.
While I was driving 60 miles an hour down the freeway.
She immediately started crying when she realized it was stuck. I asked what was wrong, but she could only blubber and say “tic tac”. I pulled over to the side of the road, turned around to look in the back seat…
Did you know orange tic tacs + snot turns an almost dayglo orange? Like hunters orange. All around her nose, down her chin.
After I quit laughing we managed to remove it. Old should be thrown away toothbrushes make excellent fingernail cleaners, btw.
It was either here or in some parenting mag, I remember reading about this kid that always was stuffed up.
Was treated for a variety of things ( allergies/ sinus infections, IRC and the whatnot) and the kid was always congested. No other symptons, Jjust congested.
Somehow or another and xray was done on this kid and it was discovered that the bean he shoved up his nose was firmly lodged as high as it could go and had started sprouting.
::::gag:::::
I am very grateful that my kids were not obsessed with shoving anything in their nostrils, ears or wazoo’s.
I do not understand your joke?
