One Very Expensive Bean

This week was quite an adventure. On Wednesday I was nursing the baby, and getting ready to put the kids down for a nap while Benny and Caleb watched a show. All of a sudden Benny starts crying and says "Mommy will you get this bean out of my ear". That's right everyone my scientist of a son decided to experiment with a black eyed pea and the size of the hole in his ear. His Hypothesis was that the bean would come right out. Unfortunately his result was that it was stuck and so far down that we had to have it removed while he was asleep. We first went to the E. R. where a very unfortunate looking resident tried for aout an hour to get it out. I guess Medical school doesn't always produce the best results. Some of her ideas were to squirt water in his ear which only caused it to get irritated. The next brilliant idea was for him to jump up and down with his head to the side in order to I guess bounce it out!! Even if a three year old even had the motor skills to do this it still made my mouth drop when they asked him to do it. Benny was extremely patient while they had their little guessing game till they finally gave up and sent me to an ENT doctor who took one look and said for sure he would need to be put to sleep to keep from damaging his ear drum. So after a long night of benny not being able to sleep and an even longer morning of him asking for something to eat, we wne to the surgical center. He was so brave. while we were waiting this very kind elderly couple handed him the biggest pink frosted sugar cookie I had ever seen. I told him he had to wait till after to eat it. Boy did he watch that cookie. He carried it every where. Care fully putting it down so that it would not break. He made sure several times that I promised not to eat it while he was asleep, (like he can't trust me with a delicious giant cookie). The couple got great joy in watching him carry his cookie around. Unfortunately my camera battery was dead, so I didn't get a picture of him in his cute night gown. He was so brave. When they came to get him he just marched right back there to see the big lights. They came out about five minutes later and the doctor told me that everything went well and they actually had to cut the bean in half to get it out. Well he was all a chatter as soon as he woke up talking about the bright spider-man lights and that the doctor put a mask on him and laid him on a rolling bed and then he woke up and the bean was out. It was pretty cute and all the nurses were all over him. I think he got a little to much attention. Hopefully it doesn't make him want to try it again. When I ask him if he is going to stick things in his ears or nose again, he says " NO mommy and I am going to make sure Caleb and Joshua don't either." what a good big brother. Well I guess that is my first lesson in having boys. I hear girls don't do this as much. Any way I did get a picture of him proudly displaying his bean. What will be his next experiment. I can only wait to see.