Red candy peanuts and corn

No, it's not a new recipe. It's relating something I did as a child to something Logan did tonight. My parents and probably my brother (if he remembers) will immediately know what I'm talking about.

BTW, if snot grosses you out, read no further.

When I was about three years old, as my mother tells me, I was eating red candy peanuts from a vending machine. She noticed red liquid coming out of my nose...turned out it wasn't a nosebleed; I had put one of the candy-coatede peanuts up my nose and the red coating was melting off. She had to take me either to the doctor or to the hospital to have it removed with big tweezers.

Tonight we were eating dinner...tacos/burritos and, yes, corn. Logan kept sticking his finger in his nose, which unfortunately is not an unusual thing, especially at his age. But he seemed more bothered about whatever was in his nose than he normally is. For some reason I thought to ask him if he had put a piece of corn in his nose, and he told me yes. Knowing that yes and/or nodding is his standard answer to most questions, I changed it up and asked if he had put taco meat in his nose. "No, corn, nose." So after he finished eating, I looked in his nose and thought I saw a piece of corn. Justin didn't fully believe me, but I got out the bulb syringe and tried to suck it out using that. Nothing but snot, and he really hates the bulb syringe, got really upset and started to cough like he was going to puke (he has done that before when he was really upset). So we went about our normal routine and gave him his bath. After his bath, I tried again with the bulb syringe on his changing table, but still no results. So while his Daddy was reading his bedtime stories, I called the doctor's answering service. They said to call back if I hadn't heard from the doc in 30 minutes. In the meantime, we put Logan to bed at his normal time. After 45 minutes, I called back because the doc hadn't called. She called soon after that; she suggested what has worked for some parents, which is to blow really hard in his mouth to try to blow it out. If that didn't work, she said if we could see it and hold him down, we could also try to get it out with tweezers. Failing that, we needed to take him to the emergency room because if we didn't get it out, he could get a sinus infection or some other bad problems. So I got dressed and ready to go to the ER, just in case. Justin and I went into his room; of course Logan had just gotten to sleep at that point (he usually takes 15-45 minutes to get to sleep at night). He sat in Justin's lap and I covered his mouth with mine and blew several times. No success, but Logan thought it was hilarious, so at least he wasn't freaking out. After several blows, the corn had appeared to make some momentum, but it wouldn't come all the way out. So we laid him on the floor and Justin held him down. I got the tweezers and tried to get ahold of the corn, but it was slippery and more snot had built up. Some tiny pieces of corn came out; I got the bulb syringe and did a couple more tries with that. Then I blew in his mouth again -- and the corn finally flew out! We think the tweezers must have dislodged it from where it had been stuck. Yeah! No ER trip. I was soooo dreading that...I just couldn't imagine how late it would have been when Logan got to bed after that.

So, needless to say, we'll be watching a little more closely for food (or whatever) being put where it doesn't belong. And hopefully Logan learned from it, too.