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Across the Fence:  Weird Stuff Kids Do  |
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JessieMae
True Blue Farmgirl
702 Posts
Jessie
Raleigh
North Carolina
USA
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 Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 11:44:09 AM
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I didn't want to make light of Alee's recent scare with Nora (glad to hear she's doing okay, Alee!), but it reminded me of something that I did when I was a kid.
Around age three I developed really awful halitosis. My mother thought my teeth might be rotting so she took me to the dentist, but he didn't find anything. An ear-nose-throat guy didn't find anything either. Finally she took me to my pediatrician to get a referral to a specialist. Dr. Clark (who was about 100 when I was three)listened to my mother's panicky soliloquy, then took his little scope and shined it up my nose. He took a pair of really long tweezers and pulled a giant funky, green, nearly rotten mass out of my nostril. My mother about went into hysterics, and Dr. Clark calmly said, "Jessica, what is that?" My mom said she saw the light bulb go on over my head, and I exclaimed, "Oh, dat's da wubba foam from my piwow!" Apparently, I had been pulling bits of rubber foam from my bed pillow at night and stuffing it up my nose.
I also enjoyed sitting - fully dressed - inside our fireplace. I ruined a beautiful Easter dress that way once.
My kid sister did the obligatory head-stuck-in-the-banister routine, and my cousin got a baby aspirin stuck in his nose. What weird stuff did your kids do?
Jessie Mae
Farmgirl Sisterhood #134 |
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JessieMae
True Blue Farmgirl
702 Posts
Jessie
Raleigh
North Carolina
USA
702 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 11:45:27 AM
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Oh, and my kid sister was locally famous for limping when she got a shot in her arm.
Jessie Mae
Farmgirl Sisterhood #134 |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 12:17:31 PM
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Oldest son got his head stuck in the spindles on back of a rocking chair (had to break it finally to free him..sigh) and I could tell all sorts of stories (all of them involve food) about second son..he was a funny one.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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lovelady
True Blue Farmgirl
533 Posts
Toni
Indiana
USA
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Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 1:13:21 PM
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| I was warming up some peas for my two-year old's lunch earlier this spring and dropped some on the floor. Wyatt is very helpful, so he started picking them up for me and putting them on the counter. After he got them picked up, I told him to go into the dining room and get in his chair for lunch. I didn't realize he had smuggled a few out in his hand, so I walk in and caught him about to stuff one up his nose. I stopped him, then explain that it is not good to stick stuff up his nose. He keeps telling me, "Mom, pea up nose!" so I looked, and sure enough, there were two peas stuffed up his left nostril! I got the first one out easily, the second one was a little tougher, so I had to hold one side of his nose while he blew the pea out the other side. OK, no big deal. I got a tiny flashlight and shined it up his nose to see if there were any more hiding out up there. Everything looked good, so I gave him another lecture about it. A couple hours later he started saying it again, "Mom, pea up nose!" and I kept saying, "Yes, you stuck peas up your nose. But you shouldn't do that any more!" I didn't think too much about it because he is always repeating himself about things that have happened recently. Just to be sure, I took another look, but decided it would be impossible for him to have fit any more peas up there. Two days later, my husband takes my son to a 4-H banquet that he has to go to and they are sitting there listening to the speakers after they are done eating, and Wyatt sneezes and shoots out a pea and almost hits the lady sitting across from him!! |
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crafter
True Blue Farmgirl
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lori
Fort Atkinson
Wisconsin
USA
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Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 1:43:36 PM
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When I was 3 I stuffed dog food up my nose- my mom called the dr in a panic- she asked the dr what to do- she didn't have her drivers license and we lived 12 miles from the city- the dr told her-in between my mom's sobs.......to send the dog up after it!!! Then the dr told her that my crying would soften the dog food up and I would sneeze it out- I did by the time they hung up!
xoxo-Lori
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CountryBorn
True Blue Farmgirl
1545 Posts
Mary Jane
New York
USA
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Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 2:00:54 PM
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Well let's see, my daughter got her finger stuck in an empty tin can, between the jagged cut lid and the side of can. My friend Cheryl magically got her tiny finger out without cutting it off. Cheryl had 4 kids so she'd seen everything. Then, she stuck raisins up her nose.There was a lot more tto. Then my grandaughter when she was about 4 was laying next to me in her moms bed, they woke me up and told me she had a tooth up her nose, she said she was just looking at it and it fell right up her nose. Yeah, right. Well, it wasn't in there straight, it was sideways. We ended up at the Dr.'s office and then at an ear nose and throat specialist at Strong Memorial hospital. He got it out and I must say she was a trooper, it must of hurt like the dickens but she was very good. It's amazing what they can dream up. Funny later, not so much at the time.
MJ
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
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