Free and clear

Last night I came home from working out (an update on that coming soon, btw) and I hear Jett crying.  Literally, I took one step in the house and Josh motions for me to come back to the bathroom.  Jett is bawling and rubbing at his eyes and nose.  Josh said that he thought Jett had something stuck up his nose.  Now, you guys know that this is not the first time something like this has happened.  Remember the apple?

We asked him over and over again what he stuck up his nose.  He kept saying Trix yogurt – the hot new item in our fridge after getting groceries that morning.  He said it wasn’t the yogurt, it was a part of it… whatever that means.  The best guess we had was a portion of the foil from the top of the cup that he got a hold of and stuck up his nose.

For an hour and a half, we made him blow his nose over and over again, stuck Q-tips up there, tried tweezers to feel around, made him sniff pepper to get him to sneeze, I even used the infant suction bulb that I use for Jace on him… all to no avail.

There were times that Jett’s eyes were extremely irritated.  They would tear up and he could barely open them.  And then it would subside and he’d be relatively calm.  It was about 9:30 when we finally gave up and figured whatever it was would come out eventually.  We reasoned that whatever the obstruction was it was small enough for him to swallow or get sneezed out.  Jett was comfortable and very tired by that point and fell asleep.

Jump to this morning.  When I picked him up from preschool, he was wearing a different shirt.  The teachers said that he was sneezing so violently and so productively (that’s the only polite way I could think to phrase it) that they had to change his shirt.   Wowza.  I asked if they happened to see anything else come out and they kind of looked at me in a weird and said that they weren’t looking for anything.  I told them the story. 

I hope that’s the last we hear from the Trix yogurt part – again, whatever in God’s green earth that is.  Who thinks this will be the last item-up-the-nose story we’ll have with this kid?  You’d think he’d be old enough to learn his lesson this time.