Our Little Scientist

Scientific exploration of the week: play dough and ear plug... Same or different???

Ate L: Dad, there's something wrong in my left ear, I feel like there is a big 'booger' in there. (excuse us for the terminology)

Dad D inspecting it with flashlight... Daddy D checking, unsure, skeptical --- hmmm, doesn't look like a booger at all, there's a color like purple... crayon?

Ate L: Oh yeah, i placed a play dough sometime last week, needed an ear plug.

Daddy D now looking furious.

Little M to her ate L: uh ow, we're in trouble.

Right then and there my phone rang (of course mommy's working hard... in the middle of admission)... and all i hear on the other line is a frantic dad who i can described like a dragon with fumes coming out in his nose, ears, and mouth.

Urgent care here we come early in the morning. Too much to handle, fairly deep... Time to go to ER, now waiting until my 6 almost 7 yr old comes out from conscious sedation in Children Hospital... Of course that didn't work either, gotta go to the specialist this time and its already getting late in the afternoon... And obviously it has to happen in the middle of my work nights. Finally purple color pellet size hardened play dough came out --- our Ate L came home tired and sleepy (poor thing) with cotton ball plug on her left ear and an antibiotic prescription.

Mommy: Do you want to place another play dough on the right ear this time?

Ate L: NOOOO (looking very scared)

Lesson of the week: play dough can't be used as ear plug... Leave it there couple of hours, it's going to really plug your ears for good, rather temporarily until you find the right gadget and expert person to get it out.

Kids 'do' the darnest thing yet it's highly detrimental and damaging not only to them but to the parents and entire household as well.

All play dough at home headed to the trash... all gone.

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