It all started about three or four days ago- I guess it was Sunday. Hayley woke up with extreme nasal congestion and when I walked out for the morning paper I could see that our entire street was blanketed in smoke from the wildfires in California.
We have run the kids humidifiers every night and have given them saline spray to no avail. Today when Hayley woke up she just didn't seem to be herself. First of all we thought maybe she had pink-eye because here eye was, well, pink. Although not all of it- and there was no gunk. We put in the precautionary drops and decided to keep her home from daycare.
By noon she was as rambunctious as ever, her eyes were perfectly clear and her nasal congestion seemed to be on the rebound. My husband dropped her off at pre-school.
I picked her up this evening and we headed off to get Sam from the babysitter's house. Halfway there she said "I need a kleenex. I have a pea in my nose." I handed one back and kept driving. It was rush hour after all.
We got home, had dinner, played on the floor, and took a bath. Immediately after we got her out of the bath we were hoping to have her blow her nose so I wouldn't have to suction her with the aspirator. She blew and blew. I took a look at the Kleenex and mentioned to my husband that because it was so green maybe we shouldn't have taken her to daycare today. Green mucous = infection, right?
She blew harder. More green. And one more time. This time, a pea came out. She wasn't lying! There really was a pea in her nose! And I have no idea what day or time she stuck it up there. I was laughing so hard I was doubled over. My husband was trying so hard to keep a straight face it was the funniest thing I had ever seen, which contributed to my laugh attack.
There literally was a pea in her nose. I guess tomorrow I am going to have to ask the pre-school for a copy of the lunch menu for the last week to see if I can determine exactly what day this might have happened. And just one little note to self- I need to take my child a little more seriously. She does have a vivid imagination- you just never know when she might be telling the truth!
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