So, we were watching Spy Kids 3, as a family last night, with a bowl of popcorn. I saw Sweatone make a furitive movement, but I did not really think much about it.
Later, I was upstairs reading the Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and Zule called to me.
Me: "What?"
Zule: "Its more of a visual."
I came downstairs. My toddler son had put a popcorn kernal in his nose. And shoved it up as high as he could get it.
Sweatone: "Mommy, my nose hurts."
Me: "WHHHHAAAATTT!"
Mind you, this is eleven thirty p.m. Now Zule and I have no clear idea what to do with this issue. We know that the popcorn kernal needs to come out of the nose, but how, I ask you? We'll b/c we're completely dependent on the internet, we googled up the answer. Basically, Sweatone has to blow it out. Now, this may seem intuitive, but it took about an hour with different techniques to try to get that kernal out. Finally, while Zule was googling up "what to do if you can't get the kernal out," I sat down with Sweatone and looked at him. He looked so sleepy and confused and sad. I took his tiny hand and said, "Feel what I'm doing, and you do it." I sucked in air through my mouth while holding his hand against my mouth, so he could see which way the air was going. He sucked air in through his mouth. Then, I said "Feel how to blow out of your nose," and placed his hand next to my nose as a demonstration. He did it! Then, I said "BLOW OUT AS HARD AS YOU CAN THROUGH YOUR NOSE, YOU CAN DO IT!"
He blew, and the kernal was dislodged, onto my shirt, well lubricated I might add, with kid snot.
I put it in a ziploc bag as a keepsake.
When D-bot woke up this morning, I showed her the kernal. She said, "That is a big kernal, indeed".