#2 has always been a busy guy... I call him my "stealth" kid... if it's quiet, too quiet, you better go see what he was up to... More than once I took him to the doctor to have them help me get something out of his ears... he had a thing about putting chips (as in potato or corn), tiny pieces of balled up paper, or sometimes foil, or pretty much anything small in his ears and then when he tried to pick them out he shoved them down even further. Once he wedged a popcorn seed/kernel, pointy end in down in his ear canal that required a trip to the eyes, ears and nose specialist. After that, i kept my booger-sucker bulb handy to flush his ears with warm water when the need arose.... Anyway, all that happened when he was 2, 3 and 4 years old.... He's 9, almost 10 now...
So, today, we are sitting at the table/desk and I see him poking his ear with his pencil, so I tell him, "quit that! you're going to damage your ear..." he says, "well, the tip of this pencil fell off in my ear..." sheesh! So, I go and dig out my gear to flush his ear. After a couple of squirts, sure enough, out comes a small piece of pencil led out of his ear in to the bowl... I said, "There. Is that better, now? Can you hear?"... "yes," he responds, "Now, can you get the one out of my other ear?..." I kid you not... One of those moments when you aren't sure whether to laugh or scold.... Given the hard time that his older brother gave him I think maybe he'll think twice before doing it again... but then again, maybe not.... with this one, you just never know... lol...
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