“Sticky” Situations
So some of you may have seen my tweet last night about a “Sticky” situation my 3 year old daughter created.
Tweet:
“My 3yr old sits in the 3rd row of my minivan.how do u other parents handle it when driving ur child says “Here mom, I have a boogie!” ???”
Follow Up Tweet:
A)you pull over and wipe it off of her finger immediately.B) ignore her and shutter at what she is going to do with it or c)tell her to wipe it on something
Now I’m still interested in finding out what all you other parents in the world do in this kind of situation. There are a lot of kids in the world and I’m sure that there has to be parents that face these kinds of situations all the time, right?! If not, please tell me where I went wrong?!
So you wanna know what actually happened?
I was in a panic, I kept saying,”Hold on, we’re almost there!”
This was then followed by a small innocent voice that had conquered the issue. She said, “Mom, it was a BIG one!”
I shreeked, “Ewe, where is it?!
Proudly my daughter says, “Its swimming in my tummy now!”
I snapped, “Did you swallow it?”
Sheepishly she responds, “Nope! It’s just swimming in my belly!”
My 4 year old son the detective says, “Wait, if you didn’t swallow it, but it’s in your belly swimming, how did it get in there? Boogies don’t have legs to walk.”
Lord, Help me!
Oh no!!! Yuck, yuck, yuck.
Reminds me of the time my brother and I were riding in the back of our parents van and he sneezed and a big, black boogie landed on my arm. I started to cry. He was laughing fit to bust. Turns out it was LICORICE! To this day he thinks it’s hilarious. 
Kids! You gotta love ‘em!
My four year-old doesn’t eat boogies (that I know of), but we have caught her picking from time to time. Which means, I guess, that she’s a wiper!
Anyway, what our sweet, angelic daughter usually does is proudly proclaim “I did a tootie!” Yes, sweetie, we can smell it all the way over here!
I posted about something else she does here: A Dad’s Dangerous Doodies
Saw your link at Bryan Allain’s blog; you have a new fan!
Lot of smarts in that posnitg!
Just found your site because of your comment on http://www.bryanallain.com
Love this! My son who is 4 recently told me about a boogie. Usually I reach back and take it and flick it out the window, but for some reason the other day I said I couldn’t do anything about it and that he should just figure it out. When we arrived at our destination I said, “Ok, where’s the boogie?” He pointed to his nose and said, “I put it back in!” He was so proud of himself for “storing” it!
LOL! I found you through iFellowship! I keep either a small box of tissue or some napkins in my van at all times. I have sons, one of whom seems to sneeze “ICK” in large quantities. I grab a couple tissues, pass them back and tell him to WIPE IT.
Heaven help you indeed.
boogers are just plain gross. I once knew a guy who picked his nose thru middle school. I know. Gross.
His nickname was Boogers.
UGH.
Cute story.