The boys and I had so much fun decorating gingerbread houses with MeMe this morning!!! Jonas was sneaking one too many licks of icing, trying to tell MeMe what to do as she was working hard to keep the roof from sliding down every few minutes (a cookie manufacturing issue), and being very particular about the way he wanted to decorate. Xander was sampling candy right and left (especially the sparkly gumdrops and the “little baby” hard candies), enjoying his decorating freedom, and, in general, was more into eating candy than decorating with it. It got a little crazy after Roman woke up from his nap when Xander spilled a bowl full of the “little baby” hard candies all over the kitchen floor. As we were scurrying around trying to pick them all up so that Roman wouldn’t have a hundred choking hazards to try out his pincer grasp on, I saw Xander’s finger go up his nose. Everything kind of went in slow motion for me then, as it suddenly dawned on me after I told him to take his finger out of his nose what he had done…yep, you guessed it, he stuck one of those “little baby” hard candies UP HIS NOSE!!! Unbelievable. Sheri was so sweet and calming and helped him try to blow his nose while I ran upstairs to get the tweezers. I ended up taking her good advice in lieu of tweezering for any longer than a half a second and called the pediatrician. The nurse and I had a good laugh, MeMe graciously offered to stay home with Jonas and Roman, and Xander and I zipped off to the pediatrician’s office to see if Dr. Huss could get it out. By then it had disappeared and our attempts at getting the offending object out failed, so we just decided that it would probably dissolve on its own (he said if it didn’t and it got infected that we’d have to take him to the ENT to get it out…but hopefully it won’t come to that). Ah life. It really was pretty funny. Happy Ho Ho Ho to you!!!
