Daddy and I took our three little ladies for their well exams today. Two days ago Mad told me her right ear hurt. I asked her if she wanted to go to the doctor. She said no. Yesterday morning the same thing, but she still didn’t want to go. Only last night she made a comment about Bitty wanting these tiny beads so she hid them from her in her ear! Oh great, she’s got beads in her ear! So her doctor looks in her ear and says “yep, there is two or three of them in here!”. He decided to put some numbing drops in her ears and then try to flush them out. Thankfully it worked. As I held her and he did it he said “oh there is more than three in here, more like eight or nine!”. Oh my word! Only this child! By the time it was all said and done he counted out eleven. Then he turned around and said “make that twelve! Yep, she had a dozen beads in her ear!”. Afterwards we had a talk with her about putting things in her ears and nose (especially after I told him about her recent paper towel up the nose incident). So he told her “the only thing you can put in your nose is your finger and the only thing you can put in your ear is your elbow!”. She’s been trying the elbow in the ear bit out since we got home. So now we’ve got one more silly thing to put in Mad’s memory box…a little zip lock bag full of the twelve tiny beads that once lived in her five year old ear for three days just so her little sister couldn’t play with them!

-Mad, 5 years old, August 2014