Bracelets, Boogers, and Beads...oh my!

Today the girls and I were making sweet little charm bracelets from a kit Emma was given as a birthday gift. Everything was going well. Titus was munching on some plastic pretend scissors, Emma was focusing in on the perfect dazzling bracelet, and Addie was shaking her head (like you do when your trying to get water out of your ear), only she was doing it in the forward motion-not to the side. Then I noticed, she started sticking her finger up there too. I giggled thinking she was trying to shake a booger out of her nose. And so I asked her, "Are you trying to shake a boogie out?" She giggled and answered "No." I said, "What are you doing then?" She replied, "Trying to get out a bead, it's stuck." You may have thought I should have immediately known it was a bead, not a booger, after all we were working with beads. I thought we were in the clear for situations like these. You see in 6 years, none of my kids have stuck anything in their noses (and have had plenty of chances too), but boogies-those we have always had in great abundance. So, to me a booger made sense. Maybe the reason they have never stuck anything up there is because it's usually already occupied. Anywho, not panicking I asked her to cover the vacant nostril and blow out with the other. This girl cannot blow her own nose, so, the chances were slim, and I felt almost certain tweezers were in my immediate future. To my amazement, it came shooting out and with such great force it pelted off my leg...causing all three of us to laugh out load. That little pink bead was tucked way up there so far, that I thought it was purple until it came out.

Thank you God for pink beads and for the safe evacuations of them :)