Why do kids shove things up their noses?

[mainegreen]

Today my son put two peas up his nose; one up each nostril.

He came up to me snuffing, looking sad and frightened saying 'peas! peas!' over and over.

Peas do not come out of little toddler nose very easy.

[PeaceNikki]

1. Because they fit so very perfectly in there.

Kinda like they are meant to go there.

[mainegreen]

3. Peas do fit well.

A little to well.

[Radio_Lady]

22. Because they have them... noses, that is.

:rofl:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Because they can.

[KitchenWitch]

6. GMTA!

:hi:

[mainegreen]

7. That's his reason for everything.

Especially the crazy stuff.

[skygazer]

4. Tweezers

As one mom to another. Yeah, they just have to. The little darlings. :P

[mainegreen]

5. I'm the dad.

;)

But that's a great idea.

I may have to get some. He rather fond of his nose.

[skygazer]

16. Whoops!

:blush:

[hippywife]

8. One of life's great mysteries.

Consider it one hurdle jumped, I guess. :hi:

[mainegreen]

9. Two hurdles.

Each nostril was most definitely a hurdle.

[Pithlet]

10. I'm surprised I haven't had that happen, yet, with my boys.

I remember when my sister shoved a Flintstones vitamin up her nose, though. And apparently my great uncle shoved a bean up his nose way back in the day, and it sprouted.

[mainegreen]

12. It sprouted?

:wow:

[Scooter24]

11. I probably put peas up my nose when I was little...

but only because I hate them with a passion and was probably looking for places to hide them at the dinner table. :rofl:

[mainegreen]

15. He loves 'em.

Probably why they went up his nose.

[LiberalEsto]

13. Because he's a peasnick

Peas, baby.

[mainegreen]

14. oh, that's bad.

:rofl:

[Radio_Lady]

23. Hey, that's so bad it's GOOD! Imagine WHIRLED PEAS!

:rofl:

[LiberalEsto]

27. Peas a Nerth nt

[MorningGlow]

17. Because he loves the classics

Peas up the nose--it's like a toddler rite of passage! (Parents too--congrats!)

MG Jr. never put one thing up his nose for 3.9 of his 4.5 years--we were very proud. Then, one day, for no reason whatsoever, in full view of his dad, he shoved a Matchbox car tire up one nostril. After I got it out and dad and I recovered from our near heart attacks, we had to be impressed that of all the things to shove up his nose, it had to be something car related (they're his only love).

According to family lore, when my mom was a young 'un and sitting in a high chair (and too young to know any better), my two uncles were asked to keep an eye on her while my grandma left the room for a minute. In a heartbeat, the two juvenile delinquents shoved bits of eraser up both my mom's nostrils. When my grandmother came back in, my mom was snorting and blue in the face, and grandma ran the whole way to the hospital carrying her. Again--why? Who the heck knows? The lure of the abyss, I guess.

[mainegreen]

18. My wife likes to tell me the story...

of how when she was little a pussywillow 'accidentally' got stuck in her nose while she was 'smelling' it.

Kids.

[harmonicon]

19. because it's the right thing to do

When I was 2 or 3 I shoved a bean up my nose. I had to go to the emergency room to have it taken out, because my mom couldn't seem to get it out.

[1]

20. a misplaced remnant of evolution...

A guy walks into a bar with his pet monkey. He orders a drink and while he's drinking, the monkey jumps all around the place.
The monkey grabs some olives off the bar and eats them. Then grabs some sliced limes and eats them. Then jumps onto the pool table, grabs one of the billiard balls, sticks it in his mouth, and to everyone's amazement, somehow swallows it whole.

The bartender screams at the guy "Did you see what your monkey just did?"

The guy says "No, what?" "He just ate the cue ball off my pool table-whole!"

"Yeah, that doesn't surprise me, "replied the guy. "He eats everything in sight, the little bastard. Sorry. I'll pay for the cue ball and stuff." He finishes his drink, pays his bill, pays for the stuff the monkey ate, then leaves.

Two weeks later he's in the bar again, and has his monkey with him. He orders a drink and the monkey starts running around the bar again. While the man is finishing his drink, the monkey finds a maraschino cherry on the bar. He grabs it, sticks it up his butt, pulls it out, and eats it. The bartender is disgusted.

"Did you see what your monkey did now?" he asks.

"No, what?" replies the guy. "Well, he stuck a maraschino cherry up his butt, pulled it out, and ate it!" said the bartender.

"Yeah, that doesn't surprise me," replied the guy. " He still eats everything in sight, but ever since he swallowed that cue ball, he measures everything first..."

[Radio_Lady]

24. :rofl: I LOVE THAT POST! CasualWatcher9, thanks for making my day!

We were invited to a dinner at the radio station. They terminated 100 volunteers today, along with two full-time (blind and handicapped) and one part time employee...then held a light dinner for us!

Saddest event I ever went to.

[Radio_Lady]

25. PS. With your kind permission, I'm sending this joke to everyone on my address list.

Thanks again.

Radio Lady Ellen in Oregon

[Inchworm]

36. LoL

Thanks for the chuckle

:rofl:

[DarkTirade]

21. ... why WOULDN'T kids shove something up their nose?

:shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. It's easier than diggin' into their pants

[Cabcere]

28. I think the question is, why don't adults?

:P Oh, wait... :shrug: :hi:

Edited to add: Is that your son in your sig pic? He's adorable. :)

[mainegreen]

29. Yup.

That's him.

[fight4my3sons]

30. OMG! Last fall one of my twins put a very small Playmobile

piece up his nose. My five year old tried to remove it with his Fisher Price doctor kit tweezers, pushing it up even further. By then I heard the commotion from the play room and went in to find the three year old crying with the other three year old crying because his brother was upset. The five year old was trying to shush them because he thought he was in trouble. I called 911 because this thing was up my son's nose and I could not get it out. My husband was working at Bean's for the season. I thought that the EMT would just get it out, but NO, we got to go by ambulance to the emergency room where the ER doctor got it out in about 2 seconds.
Very same three year old has had two ambulance rides so far. The other time from slipping and falling at the Pemaquid Light house. He knocked the back of his head and we weren't sure if he had a concussion. Off in an ambulance to the hospital 13 miles away. I was alone with the kids that day too. So I had to drive behind the ambulance with my little guy in it. He was fine.
I'm glad you got the peas out. Watch out for the ears, they seem to be a favorite place to put things too.

[mainegreen]

34. We've hidden the small playmobil toys.

I'll keep an eye out for the ears.

[Connonym]

31. I worked for an ENT practice for many years, I was constantly astounded by what kids stick in

ears and noses. Everything from food to rocks and Leggos! and just all sorts of stuff. For a while there was this little kid who came in about every other week to have gravel removed from inside his ear. The doctor finally told the kid's dad to stop let him playing in gravel.

[barb162]

33. Maybe the kid liked taking a ride to the doc's office

:(

[barb162]

32. What did he say when you asked him.

[Inchworm]

35. Freud prolly would call it

bad aim

:hide:

[RadiationTherapy]

37. You couldn't just pinch his nose and tell him to go blow?

Were they dried peas?

[Rambis]

38. toy truck up the nose

my sister in law is a police officer and she was backup on a call where a kid had stuck a truck up his nose. 1/2 hour later the call comes in from the same address.... This time dad had the same truck stuck up his nose. "I couldn't figure out how he got the thing stuck up there so I tried it"

[PassingFair]

39. If there's a hole, humans will investigate!

It's a damn good thing I couldn't find my vagina until I was 14....

Who knows WHAT could have happened.

[Radio_Lady]

40. What? Didn't anyone ever tell you it was in between the North and South exits of you?

Here's something REALLY funny. I was not raised on a farm. I had nothing to do with birds of any kind. My husband told me about the chickens last night. He also explained how they make a rooster into a capon.

Their organs are on the side and they slice into them to remove them.

Who can diagram a chicken? I can only (barely) diagram a sentence.

Here's another question:

Do capons crow like roosters do?

[PassingFair]

41. Only during the procedure! n/t

[sarge43]

42. It seemed like a good idea at the time? n/t