One night a month or so ago, my little Kyle comes to the kitchen in tears.
"Mama, I gotta 'necht up my nose."
He was crying so hard.
"What?" I asked him again in disbelief.
"I gotta 'necht up my nose."
"What do we do now?" his Daddy asks me in a slight state of panic.
"We take him to the emergency room" I say.
I run around the house, getting Kyle's shoes on and jacket. Jacob is also there. He finds this all quite entertaining.
"That's so cool" he says.
"No, Jacob. It's not cool and it's not funny." I tell him.
Meanwhile I finally get everything all ready and load Kyle in the car. As I am buckling him in, he looks up at me and says, "Mama, I have a 'necht up my nose and it's not cool and it's not funny."
"No, it's not is it baby? Why did you put a K'nex up your nose?" I ask him curiously.
"I not have any place to put it Mama."
"Ah, I see. And your nose? It seemed to fit there just fine?"
"Yeah" he says again, beginning to cry.
"It's o.k baby. Mama will take you to a doctor and he will get it out for you."
We went to the emergency room where the nurse and the doctor were very polite and did not seem at all surprised by the little blue K'nex that was shoved very carefully up my little baby's nose.
The doctor used an adhesive and a cotton swab to remove the lost K'nex. Kyle was such a tough guy, he didn't even cry!
As I am getting ready to leave the emergency room, the doctor pulls me aside and tells me, "You know, he is only two and he shouldn't be playing with such small toys."
I was sure glad that doctor reminded me that Kyle was only 2 because most days he ACTS like he is 14!! And as far as the K'nex? How do you take away your son's favorite toy that he has been playing with for nearly a year because they are too small and unsafe for him? Especially if they are his favorite thing to do with his older brothers?
You don't.
Just ask Santa. He will tell you how mnay of those tubs of K'nex this Romanowski family will be getting this year and how many he has brought in the past!!
