Have any of you ever had your child (or know of a child) who decided to experiment with foreign objects and how they may or may not fit into bodily orifices?! Well, today, my child did! Since today is "No TV Sunday," my son was bored to tears, as he is every Sunday when we will not allow him to watch the television. So what did he do to pass the time away?! He decided to see what would happen if he placed unpopped popcorn kernels in his ears! Of course, being the independent child that he is, once he realized that they would get stuck, he decided to perform his own "extraction" procedure by placing a Q-tip into his ear canal and pressing on the popcorn kernel! (As if it would come out the other ear, I suppose!) Needless to say, this resulted in a trip to the emergency room, whereby the doctor only managed to shove it even further into his ear! So, now we have to make a trip to the Ear specialist, where it is quite likely he will have to undergo surgery!
Comment from son while in emergency room:
Son: (sniffing and trying to act very brave) "Mommy, I'm a very lucky boy!"
Me: (wondering how he could possibly consider needing ear surgery as "lucky") "And how is that?"
Son: (between sniffs) "Because the one I put in my other ear fell out"!!!
Me: (to self) "You better believe it, kid"!!!!!
I think we will do away with "No TV Sundays" from here on in!
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