Today, Elsie started freaking out at the lunch table. She was clawing at her nose, which on closer inspection revealed a pea lodged in each nostril. She could not breathe through her nose or get them out. I told her to blow and she did, and the problem was solved, hopefully to not be repeated anytime soon. While trying to hide my laughter, I told scary stories about children needing ER visits to get things like this out of noses, and noted that your mouth was the only orifice that she can put things into. I know this is a common toddler activity, and I am actually surprised I made it through almost 4.5 years of parenting before this actually happened. This is the child who still puts EveryFreakingThing into her mouth, so not really a shocker that she ended up trying this.
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Last week, as you might have seen in my twitter feed, both Elsie and Delia made an escape out the front door, down the steps, through the (open? closed? I am not sure?) front gate, down the driveway, ACROSS THE STREET (at 5pm on a weeknight) and down to our mailboxes. I, guiltily, was futzing around on Facebook, Lonnie was upstairs playing with Emma. I knew Elsie and Delia had left the living room where they were playing, but assumed they had gone up with Lonnie and Emma. Lonnie looked out our bedroom window at some point and saw them wandering down the street, with our neighbor trying to corral them. Both had no shoes on and were wearing (or rather, trailing) silk fabric scarves for their "coats". We ran out to get them. "We were checking the mail" of them said, "We held hands!".
We have now reinstated the carabeener that is our makeshift gate lock (the latch on our gate is easily reachable by them). They had never, ever given any indication of doing this before, and we had totally gotten lazy about it. Whoops!
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Its definitely fascinating to watch the bond that E & D share grow and deepen. They are best friends, clearly, and have so much fun together. Lately, they have been getting into these silly laughing fits where they just crack each other up, with uproarious laughter, for 5-10 minutes at a time. Sometimes its just something goofy they are taking turns doing, or copying each other, sometimes, I have no idea what is going on between them. It happens daily, often multiple times a day. Here is a video I shot from a little more than a month ago. It had been going on for awhile before I started recording. Coincidentally, involving peas as well!
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very funny. Takes me back to when my kids were little. For some reason, at dinner Paul would say “eat your peas” and the kids, especially Rebecca would just crack up. This went on for years and even to this day on the rare occasion that we get to eat together….’eat your peas’ will often come up in conversation (even when there are no peas to be found),.
Ha ha, I totally remember this, probably from a visit to your place, Debbie. Funny funny.
I was one of those unfortunate kids that had to go to the ER to have a foreign object removed from my nose. It was a bead and because it was hard and round and quite large the doctor actually ended up pushing it even higher and higher into my nasal cavity. I was *this* close to having surgery. I never ever did that again!
I’ve actually been afraid my kids would repeat my folly. Last week my 2 year old shoved a cooking ju-jube up her nose. Thankfully I got it out at home. Yeesh.
Oh those rascally kids! Eloise once was brought home by strangers after leaving our apartment and walking away down the street. It’s quite the wake up call, no?
I’m glad everyone is okay!