Toddler hijinks

BB is getting in SO much trouble! He's a toddler all the way. It's all together challenging to handle and fun to watch. The other night after I had put LB to bed and was relaxing in the bedroom, Randy came it with BB and calmly said, "We've had a little incident." BB wasn't crying and Randy didn't sound panicked but I definitely wondered what was going on. Randy explained what happened.

10 minutes earlier...

"May," (cranberry) said BB.
"Where?" asked Randy.
"Nose," BB replied and gestured to his left nostril.

Randy tried to dislodge the cranberry with tweezers, but we now know not to do that. It just helped inch the berry further into the small nasal cavity. I then read online that I should close one nostril and blow a quick puff of air in his mouth to loosen the cranberry. BB thought that was pretty funny, but it didn't work. I got out the pepper and tried to make him sneeze. Nope (BB's favorite word). So we called the after-hours care line at the pediatrician's office and Randy took BB in.

They were home no longer than an hour later, cranberry-free. The pediatrician on call just happened to be our usual doctor and she was able to flush the offender out with water through the opposite nostril. I guess it wasn't pretty, but it worked. She had some horror stories about other foreign objects in toddlers' noses. Apparently organic material such as a cranberry is a pretty good option. Batteries and lint don't bode so well for one's nasal health.

The next day we were driving to BB's Mothers-Day-Out program and he talked about the ordeal. "May. Nose. No. May. Mouth. Mouth," he explained. Yes, baby, cranberries go in your mouth, not in your nose.

Lesson learned.

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