Never a dull moment at my house! Yesterday Sydney comes running into the house with Payton and Brooklyn running behind her, all of them screaming and crying. They are all giving us random information simultaneously, but we got from Syd that Payton had a rock up her nose. Now there was blood everywhere, and I don't do well when my children are bleeding, so Chad scoops her up and carries her into the kitchen while I gave myself a mini pep talk about stepping up. :)
Chad looked up her nose with a flashlight and declared that there was nothing up there, but Payton was so insistent and upset, not to mention the breakdown Brooklyn was having over the rock that I took over. I swabbed her nose with a Q-tip and some hydrogen peroxide and then made Chad hold the light while I pushed her nose up and back and peered inside. Sure enough there is this dark pebble lodged waaaaaay back in her right nostril, and she must have been trying to claw it out because there was a lot of blood and her nose was in pretty bad shape. She is a bleeder.
I went into "clinical" mode then, and ordered all of the unhurt screaming children to go outside, made Payton lay back on the counter and close her eyes, and made Chad go get the tweezers and bend them way out and then back together at the tip (for more resistance and a better grip) and then proceeded to dig around in her nose for about five minutes until I extracted the nasal intruder! Go me! the fact that I did it without tears or fainting is such a big thing(and I am talking about me, not Payton)!! The child was so grateful to be free of it that it broke my heart :(
Then I had to pour salt water up her nose to clean it out and ward against infection, which feels like you are drowning and which she took like a champ. Later we determined that the big kids(Sydney had a few neighbor girls in the back yard) had been putting pebbles in their nose and then blowing them out at each other, which is so gross I cannot even tell you, and that Payton had tried to do it, but sucked it into her nose instead of blowing it out! Can you imagine?! What happened to girls playing house or dolls? Well, that was my fun story for the week hopefully, have a great day!
My family is one large sea of estrogen with my poor husband braving the tide ALL by himself! We torture him frequently with our emotional outbursts, wanting to talk about feelings, and crafts involving glitter. He is rapidly discovering that women are a mystery that shall never be solved, and should therefore just be cherished for the wonder that we are. Seriously. Poor guy. I hope you enjoy this peek into our lives. God Bless :)