Our daughter is 2 and a half years old. She is a toddler now and has been for awhile, obviously. Raising a toddler is a whole new set of challenges as they are more mobile, curious and at times coniving.

They are also unaware of consequences. Except maybe in the discipline area. But they are certainey unaware of most consequences. Such as sticking beads up your nose.

It is obvious to me that Liana was very unaware of the consequence of this action. For if she knew what was going to happen, she would have never done it.

On Friday Dec. 8th I got a call from the daycare saying that Liana had a bee stuck in her nose. At least that’s what I heard. I was extremely shocked and replied, “A bee!?”. She said “no, a bead”. I thought ‘oh, thank God it’s only a bead up her nose.” Then realized that she still had something up her nose.

I caled my mother in law, who raised a child that ate anything. I mean she ate ex-lax, laundry detergeant and who knows what else. So I figured this should be easy as cake for her. I asked if I should take the ganoosh to the ER and she said to call our pediatrician first. So I did and she got us in immediately.

She asked Liana what happened and Liana said “I have yellow bead dere” and points to her nose. So the doc looks and sure enough there’s the bead. Only now Liana claims that there’s a blue one too. Needless to say, we’re all shocked. The doctor looks but sees no sign of a second bead in the mucusy nose.

At this time the doctor says she has a story to share with us, after we get the bead out. She has two toddlers as well, so this is going to be good.

Now begins the consequences that would have kept the Ganoosh from sticking a bead up her nose, if she knew about them.

I told the doctor what I wanted to try and she said they were good ideas, but it was better that I brought her in, since I’ve never tried to extract a bead from a nose, before. So we plug the nostril that is sans bead and blow into her mouth. This did not work and I was very sad. See, it was going to be hilarious to see a bead shoot out of her nose and hit my wife in the cheek. Oh well.

So now the evil part. We must try using tools. The doctor get what looks like a small plastic needlepoint needle out. Liana looks at this and obviously realizes what is about to happen, because now she is beside herself. Anna holds her arms down and I have her head held as still as you can hold a two year olds head when they know something bad is going to happen to them. Let me remind you that I am a 6′ 220 pound guy. This 29 pound toddler was harder to hold down than lunch from Long John Silver’s.

The doctor reaches up her nose and in a couple seconds has removed the bead. It was very impressive, how fast she did it. However, 5 gallons of tears were still shed. Then she looked just to make sure there was no second bead. There was not.

So, we now have the first of potentially numerous things extracted from our child. And who knows what the brother will do when he becomes a toddler.

As for the doctors story. Her daughter was complaining, one night, that she lost her floss. They found it 8 days later. When she pulled it out of her nose.