How we spent the last day of Christmas vacation...

Yesterday(Sunday) didn't start off really well. When the alarm went off I could not believe how tired I was so I hit the snooze and somehow managed to turn the alarm off. We ended up sleeping too late for church, only for me to discover later that my clock was set 2 hours fast. So the alarm actually went off at 4:30, not 6:30. No wonder I was still so tired. Now, I can't say exactly who messed with the clock but I have my suspicions, and it wasn't Aidan or Derek. Of course the day really got exciting when Asher came to me and said "popcorn nose, popcorn nose" I thought he was referring to the day before when he had shoved a piece of popcorn up his nose (which Derek was able to pull out with the tweezers) but no, Asher was letting me know he had done it again. After looking up his nose with a book light, we were able to see that this time it was a kernel and there was no getting it out with tweezers. We tried a few things, getting him to blow really hard, we had him smell pepper which did actually produce a few sneezes but no popcorn kernel. As I was on the phone with our pediatrician's office, Derek and Asher were on their way. Unfortunately, the doctor had already left the office so Derek headed to the Children's hospital office on our side of town. After waiting for a little over an hour(in a very nice waiting room, there was practically an indoor playground for the kids and even some riding toys) they were ushered into a room with no toys, which was not so easy for Asher. Or Derek, for that matter. When Derek called to see where I was(in route after dropping Aidan at the Weaver's) Asher was screaming in the background, he had a bit of a meltdown. Needless to say the doctor was unsuccessful(after 2 nasal bulbs of water shot through the opposite nostril, air blown through the opposite nostril, a suction hose, and a bit of digging around) we were sent to Children's hospital downtown to meet an ENT. It wasn't as horrible as I thought it would be. There was valet parking and we didn't have to sit in the waiting room long since the doctor was expecting us. And it took him 5 seconds to get the kernel out. He used a little tool that spread Asher's nostril open so he could see better and then he used another tool that looked a lot like a knitting needle to rake the kernel out. Quite the night, oh, we also discovered that Asher has 2 ear infections in the process. At least that saved me another trip to the doctor today.

I do not have any pictures of the experience, but we do still have the corn kernel as a little token....