“What is wrong with my children?!” How many of us moms think that? I got a big scare from Aidan yesterday…twice.
Lets go back to Sunday night when Mike and I decided to watch a special on TLC called, “Your Kid Ate What?”. The show is a collection of parent-submitted stories about a time their kids ate something that sent the entire family to the ER. One example hit home when they told a story about a little girl that ate 8 hearing aid batteries thinking they were “silver candy”. (Just for those of you who don’t know, Thanksgiving weekend last year, Mike and I had to drive the kids to urgent care to investigate if they swallowed some missing batteries or not — thankfully, they did not.) Anyways, after the show traumatized us, we went around and remove anything we deemed to be a choking hazard.
I went to work, updated my Facebook status about the show and didn’t think about it again. I came home and was greeted by a very freaked out Grandma. She showed me one of Aidan’s sorting blocks and told me to take them all away. Apparently, Aidan stuck the entire thing into his mouth and it got stuck! Grandma tried to help him but the block was so big she wasn’t able to pry it out. She finally calmed down and tried to convince Aidan to calm down. She spoke to him slowly and told him to use his tongue. He actually relaxed his mouth and the block came out. That is so scary! We JUST watched a show on this.
With that episode over, Tina and I took the kids to the Spectrum to buy new shoes and came home for their bath. Aidan had a dirty diaper so as I was changing him, he was holding on to the Destitin. I didn’t notice and the cap opened up and he had some in his mouth! Tina tossed a wet wash cloth at me and I tried to wipe out as much as I can. Still a little nervous but not wanting to call the poison control center, I wanted him to drink some water. I made sure he finished the whole cup of water I prepared by putting a splash of orange juice into it (my kids LOVE juice since I don’t give it to them most of the time).
So here he was, sitting in the middle of my kitchen with his smug little face, sucking on a straw with orange juice flavored water, so proud and pleased.
Boys – I’ve said enough.