The untold joys of a toddler with a cold
June 8, 2007
Me with a handful of tissues.
“Come over here so I can wipe your nose.”
Miles running away as fast as he can.
“No. I wick it. I wick my nose.”
I guess that is better than wiping it on my silk damask throw pillows, a.k.a. evidence of my own insanity, like he usually does.
I spared you a photo. No need to thank me.
Posted by Chris @ 10:14 am
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It couldn’t be any messier than the egg cracking episode.
June 8th, 2007 at 10:32 amMy 2yo has had a runny nose for about 3 weeks. She usually ends up wiping it on my shirt. She’s so sweet. YUCK!
June 8th, 2007 at 10:45 am…saves on tissues, right?
June 8th, 2007 at 10:52 amSilk pillow is better than your bed pillow. Just saying, we have to do an AWFUL lot of laundry here when the kiddos get sick.
June 8th, 2007 at 10:53 amMy husband currently has a cold. Or should I say “man-flu”…
Honestly, our toddling daughter was less “poorly” when she had a violent sickness bug a while back!
Hope your little one feels better soon though!
June 8th, 2007 at 11:44 am“I wick it” Bwahahahaha! Ewww.
June 8th, 2007 at 12:06 pmOh. My personal favorite is, “mom, I like the way it tastes.”
Yeah. Blech.
Good luck with the snotty one.
June 8th, 2007 at 12:07 pmMy 3yr old prefers to use his shirt or the couch. Gross!
June 8th, 2007 at 12:48 pmNodding my head and pointing to the title of my blog…
June 8th, 2007 at 1:32 pmThis is familiar! Also we had this one: Grandmpa tried to take a smallish rock away from my then 3 year old. She took off running at high speed yelling, “my wock, my wock, I just want to wick it!” Which has become a phrase now at any family gathering. “I just want to wick it!” Whenever someone wants to look at something. Heh.
June 8th, 2007 at 1:39 pmMy son, 4, favors the carpet to wipe his runny nose. I was mortified when we were shopping at Kohls and I turned around to find him on his hands and knees using their carpet as a snot rag. Nice.
June 8th, 2007 at 2:34 pmmine’s got a booger-filled nose too. but, being too young to announce her intentions, she simply whines, and then rubs it all over her face with the back of her hand, and then rubs her face all over my shoulder, and then i rub her face and my shoulder with toilet paper.
and then we do it again 10 minutes later.
June 8th, 2007 at 5:12 pmBut really… Thank you.
June 8th, 2007 at 5:15 pmMy granddaughter has the snotty nose thing going on…as well as the itchy, watery eyes. I’m thinking allergies rather than a cold. She FINALLY learned to blow a week ago and that makes a huge difference. She loves blowing her nose so we’ve gone through a box and a half of tissues! Much better though than the back of her hand, her shirt tail, or my shoulder
June 8th, 2007 at 5:21 pmEww…isn’t it amazing what DOESN’T bother them to do?
June 8th, 2007 at 5:30 pmBOL… ewwwww, thanks for not attaching a photo, I have a queezy belly.
June 9th, 2007 at 11:32 amMy almost-3-year-old runs to find me, screaming, “MY NOSE! MY NOSE!”. It’s like he’s terrified the whole thing will melt off his face if I don’t wipe it for him. He’s almost trained to at least ask for help instead of hollering at me…. And, yes, thanks for NOT posting pics of that one.
June 10th, 2007 at 8:34 pmI once offered an eighth grader a kleenex (I was subbing for his social studies teacher), and he replied, “No thanks, I just swallow it.”
June 11th, 2007 at 12:02 pm