The adventures of being 5!

Well today started out as every other school day.  I dropped David off at school and went about running so errands.  While at Costco I recieved a phone call " Is this David Mom?".  Little did I know as this is our first school nurse call what that meant.  I replied hesitantly "yes".  The school nurse then proceeds to tell me that while at recess this morning David and his cohorts all decided to stick rocks up their noses.  I stop in my tracks, middle of the asile.  OH CRAP!!! I think.  Did all of the kids get the rocks stuck, was it davids idea, how many apology letters will i need to write to the other parents, etc..  Oh no, NO ONE else got one stuck just David.  So I stop shopping, check out and head to the school.  In that short span David snorted that rock higher and higher so that when I arrived at the school it was no longer visiable.  Yes it was ALL THE WAY up there.  So I take him to our Family practice doctor who tries twice to retreive the pebble with no luck infact probably pushing it further up.

David at first Doctors office

Then we are told we have to options.  Emergency Room or see a specialist Ear Nose and Throst specialist.  We chose the latter.  As we are driving I am really trying to figure out how the boys decided to do this.  David then explains to me that "my boogers were hungry and the rocks were there so...." What could I say to that. 

We arrived at the specialist office.  David is excited now to see what the rock will look like when it comes out.  I try telling him that it will just be covered with boogers.  I am pretty sure he thought that it would like change in to money or something cool to play with. 

As we go back to our room the and wait for a minute I tell him that what the doctor is going to do may hurt and he doesnt seem to mind.  Now we are seeing Dr. Gross and he was awesome.  He spray some lidocain up Daves nose and went to work.



Method number one

Well lets just say we are grateful for all of the previous children who have so thoughtfully gone before us because Dr. Gross knew pretty quick that this method would not work.  So he pulled out the big guns!!

Method number two

This was the winner!!! Dr. Gross was able to "catch" the pebble first try with this one.  David did great and didnt even have to be held done during the retreval process and for that Dr. Gross gave him a sucker ( not sure that I wanted to reward the behavior but oh well).  And here is the pebble next to a dime.  Not a very big pebble but a very expensive one that David and I decided to keep.  We havent named it yet, but I have a feeling that will come in time. 

Have  a great day!!! I know that I did!