Another First

...and hopefully the last!

Last night as I was cleaning up after dinner, Hana was still working on hers. The conversation went a little something like this:


Hana: (laughing) My pea, Mommy! My pea went up there!
Mommy: (washing dishes) Your what went where?
Hana: (still laughing) My pea, Mommy. I can't get it out.
Mommy: (now turning to Hana to try to figure out what on earth she's talking about) Okay, now what is where?
Hana: (now laughing harder and pointing up her right nostril) My pea! My pea in my nose! I can't get it out!


I turn her head toward the light and look up her nostril to find a huge green pea shoved up there. I "calmly" yell for Joe as I try my best not to panic. I begin holding the other nostril closed as I try to get her to blow really hard out of the other one. It doesn't work. Joe comes into the kitchen and asks for a flashlight. He shines it into her nostril and I see it has now been pushed a little further up by Hana's "helping" finger. Joe then asks for tweezers and for me to hold the flashlight so he can see. The entire time I'm thinking "This is it. This will be Hana's first trip to the ER. At what point do we take her to the ER?" I thought Joe was going to try to pull the pea out with the tweezers, which I thought was a HORRIBLE idea. "It will only keep pushing it further up," I was thinking. However, my ingenious husband did not use the tweezers to try to pull the pea out but to tug on a nose hair which caused her to sneeze it out! HOORAY! We paused for a couple of quick photos


and then Hana got a serious lecture. Not once during the entire process did she become upset. She laughed the whole time.