Jonny's Super Powers

Jonny still takes any opportunity to climb up on the table that he can, even though we always make him get off. There just always seems to be too much fun stuff up there! On this night, we were playing board games. When Jonny got tired of his game, he climbed on the table and showed us his "super powers". I don't know where he got it from except maybe Super Grover on Sesame Street!

The Story of the Peanut

It all started last Friday when Jonathan wanted a snack while watching a movie. I gave him a handful of peanuts, one of his favorites. A little while later, Jonny came and showed me the peanut that was sitting sideways in the end of his nose. As Chris and I tried to get it out, Jonny started crying and sucked the peanut up higher into his nose. We could see it with a flashlight, but we couldn't reach it. We tried everything we could think of to get it out--blowing, coughing, sneezing, etc., but it wouldn't budge. Because of the weekend and the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, I wasn't able to get him into the doctor until four days later. The doctor took a look at the peanut and sent us to the emergency room.

The emergency room doctor wanted to try using a Katz extractor to get the peanut out. The extractor is a syringe that you can insert past the peanut and then has a balloon that inflates to help pull the peanut out. That's the theory anyway. Jonny completely freaked out at the hospital so in order to get the extractor in his nose, they put his arms in a pillowcase and then wrapped him in a sheet so that two nurses and my mom and I could hold him still. The doctor tried to get the peanut out about three times but it was lodged in there too tightly for the bubble to work. When the doctor drew a little blood, she gave up and called an ear, nose and throat specialist.

The specialist had us wait two days before coming in so that any swelling from the emergency room visit could go down. You could tell that the specialist is a pediatric doctor because she and her staff were much better equipped to handle children than the emergency room. The nurse numbed Jonny's nose before they tried anything. Jonny was freaking out again so they wrapped him in some robe-thing and then brought three nurses/assistants into the room to hold him so that Mom and I didn't have to hold him this time. The doctor had some long tweezer-type tool that she reached in and grabbed that peanut with on the first try. I felt like jumping up and down for joy! They even sent us home with the peanut in a little cup!Yesterday, Jonny wanted some peanuts for a snack. I told him, "No, why don't you have some almonds instead." I was thinking, "Almonds are bigger than peanuts so they shouldn't fit in his nose as well." I also asked Jonny, "Are you going to put them in your nose?" He told me, "NO!" I sure hope that's true and that this is the end of Jonny putting things in his nose!

Best Friends

Overheard recently:

"Mom, this is my best friend, Mac." and "Mac is my good buddy."

Too cute!

Wow, He's Really Two!

You know, I've heard about the "terrible twos" but things didn't seem so much different after Jonny turned two. He's always been a busy, active kid. Well, I now know what they mean by terrible! Let me give you a few examples:

#1 While we were at my mom's house, Jonny had an apple for a snack. I cut it into slices and took off the skin. When Jonny wanted another apple later, my mom just cut it into thin slices. She told me, "You just have to cut the apple really thin and then he'll eat the peel, too." Well, she called me later to tell me where she found the apple slices with the peel: in her VCR!! I guess Jonathan doesn't eat the peel, no matter what!

#2 I didn't feel too bad about Mom's VCR after I found Jonathan in my car. STUFFING MY CD PLAYER FULL OF COINS FROM MY ASHTRAY. Coins don't come out and since they are made of metal, they are conductors and mess up all the sensors and electrical things in the player. So no, my CD player doesn't work anymore. At least Mom could get the apples out.

#3 When Chris came home from work one day, he and I were chatting in the kitchen while I finished up dinner. I saw Jonny come in and get a medicine spoon out of the kitchen drawer but I didn't worry because he likes to play with stuff from the kitchen. Chris and I kept chatting, but a few minutes later, I realized that I'd better check on Jonny. I found him in the bathroom, with the toilet bowl full of toilet paper. He said, "I put the spoon in there!" And obviously he had already flushed the toilet because the spoon was gone and the bowl was full of water. I had to get a big spoon from the kitchen to get all of the toilet paper out and then we tried plunging and fishing the spoon out with a wire hanger. Nothing worked. And to top it off: it was Chris' birthday so Chris' parents and siblings were going to be at our house in less than an hour for cake and ice cream. We were going to have a useless toilet with a house full of people! Luckily, Chris kept using the plunger and we finally heard a POP! and then the toilet bowl drained. Now, the bathroom door stays shut and has a door knob cover on it to keep Jonny out!

#4 Jonny loves to play outside so if I'm not outside, I still let him play outside since the yard is fenced and just keep an eye on him from the kitchen window and French doors. Well, one day I couldn't see him so I went outside to check on him. I found the side gate open but he and the dog were nowhere to be found. I went next door while Chris checked the front yard and the street. Pretty soon, our neighbors from across the street came out of their house...with Jonny and the dog!!!!! They were inside when all of a sudden, there was a strange dog running around inside their house! Jonny had let himself and the dog in their sliding glass doors! They had to scramble to put their two dogs away before they had a dog fight in their house! I was slightly mortified, needless to say! Now, we have a big tire in front of the wooden gate (in addition to the latch) and we have chained up the chain link gate.

#5 You know the bead that Jonny put up his nose? Well that hasn't been the only thing he has put up his nose. Saturday, he was eating popcorn and came and told me that there was popcorn in his nose! I couldn't see any and I couldn't feel any, but I didn't want to take any chances. Mom got out her bulb syringe (those little nose suckers for infants), but Jonny didn't think too highly of it. We traumatized Jonny by holding him down and sucking his nose out. We didn't get anything so I'm hoping that he just put the popcorn in the end of his nose and took it right back out!

Christmas Pies

Jonny "helped" Grandma make some pies for Christmas. Jonny especially liked using the rolling pin. Jonny is a dough eater--bread dough, roll dough, and apparently pie dough! See that pile of dough scraps on the table? Yes, Jonny ate them all! Have you ever eaten uncooked pie dough? Bleh....

Also, Grandma wasn't aware of Jonny's taste for flour. (Another bleh from me.) Jonny always dips his hand in my flour container whenever he gets a chance! Grandma left her flour bin open and Jonny spotted it. He reached in with a cookie scoop and took out a big scoop of flour. Yes, he ate it all. Apparently he also squeezed the handle at least once because he also ended up with a white face before he was finished!