Faith is fixated on putting things in her ears and up her nose. I don't know why, but I assume it's a phase and as phases go, this one is pretty high on my "Shit I wish she'd grow out of already" list. Every time she wakes up, I have to pull blanket fuzz out of her nose and ears because apparently that's a super fun midnight activity. It's not just limited to blanket fuzz, but paper products are typically her favorite nose food. She chews it up like a spit ball and then shoves it up her nose. I'm better at nose spit ball retrieval than anyone should be.
This morning started earlier than usual, so I was a little out of it when I got up with her and I didn't notice her "helping" Peanut eat her breakfast until she came over to proudly show me that she had jammed a piece of dog kibble into each ear. Good thing I noticed before Peanut did and started chasing her around the house!
During our run today, Faith had a Chewy granola bar (well, the Target brand rip off kind) with chocolate chips. She has one of these on every run, but today she decided that those chocolate chips would be more fun to insert up her nose than to eat. The best part was trying to figure out what on earth she had done to herself when we got home.
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| Hey Mommy, let's play the "What's on my face??" game! |
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| It's ok, I only need one side for breathing |
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| Mommy, why does everything smell like chocolate? |
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| Mmmmm....chocolate snot. |
At first I was really worried because she had shoved that chocolate really far up, but then I realized that it would just melt (and make a huge mess) and be fine. I sent my husband the pictures and he said that it looks like I beat her, so at least this happened in the privacy of my house.
When she's not shoving foreign objects up her nose, she's getting herself stuck somewhere in the house. She will wedge herself places like the entertainment center or bookshelf (which is empty because she eats books) and then be unable or unwilling to free herself. Yesterday she topped herself with this ridiculous situation:
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| I think this was a bad judgment call on my part |
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| It's got me! HELP! HELP! |
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| Mommy. Put the camera down and help me already. |
She's going to love that picture when she's in high school.
If you're wondering what Peanut was doing while all this was happening, here's her past two days in a nutshell:
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| It's really too bad she can't relax and make herself at home |
Peanut was at the kennel over the weekend (since we were gone all day Sunday and she has time sensitive medications) and it's like a middle school aged kid going to a sleepover: she doesn't seem to sleep at all. When you combine that with the group play times, she comes home exhausted. I love it, especially since Peanut has the same inclination to find trouble as Faith, like the time she cornered this in the yard and I had to save her from herself.
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| Much bigger than it looks here and freaking pissed that a dog was barking at it |
Any funny stories about things up noses or crazy animals your pet has tried to eat?
When I was a baby, my mom tells me there was a time that I cried nonstop and smelled really bad. AFter a few days of no improvement, she took me to the ER and I had stuck a pea up my nose and it was rotting. Nice huh?
ReplyDeleteMy dog came back from the kennel with the shits so that was nice. I guess he nerved himself up so bad he made himself sick.
Pets and babies are wicked fun, right? lol
My dog loves the kennel more than anything on this planet, so luckily she never comes home with stomach issues. I think it's because she went there for puppy daycare!
DeletePretty funny that she actually got stuck in that dish! The dogs killed 4 rabbits in our backyard last summer. Problem is we have a dog door, one dead one made it inside and buried in a dog bed. Bunnies are going to start re-appearing, I'm afraid.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad Peanut is too lazy to actually kill anything other than a spider.
DeleteOmg, your pics today were just what I needed-- totally had me laughing! (And yes, those pics of Faith do look like you beat her!)
ReplyDeleteLuckily, Tals hasn't been an eater.. but she does have this weird habit of finding food anywhere, like on walks, runs, hikes, etc. She'll pull half a Subway sandwich out of a shrub, today she found a breadstick by the lake, etc. Kinda weird. I think she may be stealing from homeless people!
Also, that snake is terrifying. Just saying.
I was terrified of that snake too, even though I knew it wasn't venomous! It was making this hissing/clacking noise that scared the crap out of me (but not Peanut, haha)
DeleteWow. Your new kid looks just like your old one. Except a messier nose.
ReplyDeleteBut I like your new dog and new snake. Will they both go running with you? Er, I mean, slow speed-walking with you?
ReplyDeleteI don't know, I can't find a good leash for the snake.
DeleteWhat's the leash for.....oh, because of the pregger thing, you're too slow to keep up with the snake now, so you have to slow it down with a leash, right?
DeleteThe last picture of Faith with the chocolate running out of her nose is priceless. The caption should be, "You think this is bad, you oughta see the other guy." In an Italian accent of course.
ReplyDeleteAs you know, my cats are always getting into something. Luckily that haven't stuck anything anywhere.
1- I just almost peed myself when reading this to myself. 2- I decided that it was unfair to almost pee myself alone so I read this out loud to my husband. You owe us a pee-free couch.
ReplyDeleteI laughed out loud at the chocolate smog picture. I can't wait to see where Logan hard stuck. He did get stuck under the end table - crawled though the.side and couldn't come out the front since there is a piece of wood blocking his exit.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was little I stuck a dime up my nose. I panicked and hid from my parents. They eventually found me and had to hold.me down so they could get at it with tweezers. Good times.
I laughed out loud at the chocolate smog picture. I can't wait to see where Logan hard stuck. He did get stuck under the end table - crawled though the.side and couldn't come out the front since there is a piece of wood blocking his exit.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was little I stuck a dime up my nose. I panicked and hid from my parents. They eventually found me and had to hold.me down so they could get at it with tweezers. Good times.
I honestly can't recall ever sticking anything up my nose, which I'm taking as a small victory. This reminds me of a time when my brother's tooth broke off and he accidentally swallowed it. The doctor said it was fine, would pass, no big deal. EXCEPT my brother used to dig through his own shit every day for WEEKS to find it so that he could put it under his pillow for a quarter. That was super fun for my parents.
ReplyDeleteI am laughing so hard at this!
ReplyDeleteMy son, somewhere between 2.5 and 3, stuck a popcorn kernal up his nose. I have no idea how long it was in there, but he complained about his nose for a good part of the afternoon. Putting him to bed that night, I finally actually checked his nose--and was freaked out by the hard lump I felt when I pushed on that nostril. Fortunately I was able to extract it myself without medical intervention.
Another time, when he was well past three, he swallowed a penny. The doctor tasked us with (I kid you not) going through his poop until we turned up the penny because such things can cause serious problems if they get lodged in a little kid's intestines. FOUR DAYS LATER....my husband pulled the penny out of the load we'd extracted from the kiddie potty we were making him poop in (he was potty trained already; would have been easier if he'd still been in diapers). It was....absolutely....vile....four days of vile.....
Moral of this story: Keep Faith away from coins until she's five or so.
I could have died as a kid because I stuck a raisin so far up my nose. I think I was closer to 5 than 2...yep, I'm "special." I just remember being seriously bored while my mom was looking at oriental rugs and needing to entertain myself. The pediatrician had to extract it using long tongs. He was petrified as if it had fallen into my lung: game over.
ReplyDeleteHaha...laughing at my own comment..."long tongs." REALLY? I mean like tweezer things.
ReplyDeleteWe had a gravel driveway and I decided it would be fun to see who could put more tiny gravel rocks in their ears - my brother or our next door neighbor. Both ended up in the ER and had to have the rocks extracted. Point, Emily.
ReplyDeleteWe also had a bunch of random pets growing up - four cats, a couple dogs, a rat, a snake, and birds. Methodically, one of our cats decapitated the birds, snake, and rat and left their dismembered, lifeless bodies in one of our beds. Point, cat.
You ate an evil genius. Did your parents find out it was you who had the gravel idea?
DeleteARE not ate. Although I bet evil geniuses are delicious.
DeleteI love your pics.....Faith does the funniest things!!
ReplyDeleteNothing up the nose, yet. However Faith is older than the B. I'm considering this post to be my heads up of fun games in my near future. Thanks for the warning!
ReplyDeleteBarf, that last snot picture made me want to hurl. Hopefully I'm less easily disgusted by my own child's snot. So far she hasn't had any.
ReplyDeleteMy dog tries to eat geese. My dog is significantly smaller than geese and one day they are going to attack.
My second one was so one of the most beautiful babies I have ever seen. People would stop us to ask if they could take her picutre. BUT, she was also one of the most difficult babies I have ever seen. The minute she could crawl all hell broke loose. I found her jammed in behind the toilet one day, then on top of the stove playing with the knobs. She learned to stand on the kitchen table by popping up and grabbing onto the hanging light. As soon as she had mastered that she started swining from the kitchen light. I was not a neglectful mom but the minute I turned around that child was into something. And I am sorry to say, that part of her has not changed.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter stuck a piece of granola bar wrapper up her nose on a road trip with her dad, when it was dark out and he had already had a flat tire. He had to get a flashlight and tweezers to get it out since she was freaking out about it :) Love the chocolate snot pictures!
ReplyDeleteIt's just a rat snake, it wouldn't hurt Peanut.
ReplyDeleteYour child is ridiculous. Let's recap: she likes to get stuck places, jam things in her orifices, and eats books...yep, totally normal.
She is my kid. :)
DeleteStuck in the dog's food dish. That's just amazing. Maybe she'll be in the circus one day, eating paper and shooting spit balls out of her nose!
ReplyDeleteI love Peanut so much. I want her life.
I'd like her life for a day too.
DeleteHoly crap this cracked me up. Chocolate snot!
ReplyDeleteI don't really have anything to add to this, but please teach Faith about the joys of chocolate before it's too late. She would rather eat berries and shove the chocolate up her nose? That's a crime.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry, she goes nuts for M&Ms.
Deleteholy crap, that was in your yard?!?! i saw a snake like that once...in australia.
ReplyDeleteYep, it's just a rat snake. We have a ton around here, but they can get BIG!
DeleteGreat post! Faith is sooo funny!
ReplyDeleteI remember when a grade school friend stuck a plastic bead up her nose at school. To think she now is on the admin board at West Virginia University! If they only knew. ;-)
HILARIOUS.
ReplyDeleteFaith is amazing.
Owen came home from daycare yesterday saying, "Eat rocks!". I'm hoping this came from his teachers saying, "DON'T eat rocks" or "NO eating rocks", but one never knows. He has a history of ingesting gross things, not sticking them in other body holes. The only advantage to that is that most things come right out the other end and I don't have to pull them out. Ew.
That snake is SO scary, I would not have been able to take a picture of it, that's for sure!
ReplyDeleteOh and funny story, when I was in elementary school, I wanted to know what it was like to have a hearing aid (both my parents wear them) so I ripped off a corner of my phonics book and stuck it in my ear. But I couldn't get it out, and for a while complained of an earache, not realizing that it had to come out at some point, and that's what was causing the earache. I told my mom that I had no idea what was in my ear until she took me to the doctor, who had to get these massive tweezers and pull the wax packed little ball of paper out of my ear. Smart, huh? So hopefully Faith will own up to sticking things up her nose and in her ears instead of saying she didn't do it :)
DeleteWait, is that a king cobra? Did you grab your flute?
ReplyDeleteI hope Faith grows out of her phase soon! And she's going to love that you have evidence that she loved shoving things in her ears and nose, when she grows older. :)
ReplyDeleteMy niece used to put rocks up her nose. Freaked me out.
ReplyDeleteCurrently my dog is hunting a skunk. He's already been sprayed twice. You'd think he'd learn to stay away! Dumb dog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu8YkneQEfM
ReplyDeleteI was happily laughing at the stuff up the nose pictures until that last chocolate snot one. LOL.
ReplyDeleteI have decided that my dog does absolutely nothing that funny.
Oh yes! We are still in the "everything in the mouth" phase. Today was styrafoam, yesterday was dirt rocks. And my daughter loves sitting inside things she can't get out of too! So funny. Can totally relate...love it!!
ReplyDeleteThat snake pictures is terrifying.
ReplyDeleteMy mom says as a kid I shoved stuff up my nose all the time. Mostly flowers and peas.
OMG I am having to laugh quietly because everyone else in the house is sleeping, but finding that very hard because this post (and your daughter) is hilarious! Apparently I once stuck a pencil up my sister's nose when I was young but I refuse to believe I was that mean. ;)
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