Documenting Mischief

I need to get this on here... otherwise I may forget. Some of you may have guessed that this is Annelise's baby book (that is why I put the heights and weights for each well doctor's appointment). Someday soon I will blurb this blog!

On April 28th (I remember the day vividly), I was cooking lunch and Annelise was playing to my left next to the stove. I noticed that she was playing with a little coin from Danny's Playmobil Skeleton Shipwreck. The coins are tiny little treasure that goes in the mini treasure box. They can't be more than a centimeter in diameter. A minute or so later I look back at her and realize she doesn't have the coin anymore. I expect to see it on the floor, but no... not there. She has her finger in her nose, which had been kind of normal for the two weeks leading up to this. Annelise was finishing off a cold.

But Annelise was really digging in there... hmmm. I thought that it would be good to check to make sure the coin wasn't in her nose, but sure enough, Annelise thought her little nose was a perfect place for one of Danny's toys. It was pretty far up there, but tweezers could get it out. In one of my better judgement mom moments, I decided to look up her other nostril. Another coin!!! Even farther up.

I started to get nervous. I kept thinking... oh this must be one of those moments when you shouldn't use tweezers because you may push it farther up there. I didn't want to make a trip to the ER (and frankly, they probably would have used tweezers, too), so I scooped her up to our upstairs bathroom. She was so calm. I was crying (not hysterical crying... just "please... I can do this" crying), but Annelise was as compliant as ever. I told her to look at the ceiling and I got out both of those coins with a pair of tweezers.

This was all followed by a stern lecture on not putting foreign objects in the body's holes. She said OK and went downstairs to eat lunch. I made a mental note to watch Danny's toys a little more closely (hide some? toss some?) and check Annelise's nose every once in a while. There is a reason they say don't let anyone 3 or under play with it. Danny NEVER did anything like that. I hope I don't have to dig in her nose ever again.