Keith and Owen were playing with Legos just before bed, as Owen was munching on trail mix. Not an unusual evening. As were we transitioning to getting ready for bed, Owen began sneezing a bit. While I went to get his room ready, Keith accompanied him to do teeth and potty. I could hear the sneezing continue, assuming he encountered an allergen or was coming down with a cold.
Then Keith came in and told me he thought it was way too dry in the house and that we needed to turn up the humidifiers or something, because Owen had just sneezed a bunch of brown gook out of his nose. Yuck.
All during bedtime reading, sneezing. (“Owen, is your nose itchy?” “Oh, yes, so itchy!”) During prayers, sneezing. Lights out, more sneezing. I finally asked Owen if there was something I could do to help and he said no. So I asked him if he knew what was going on with his nose:
“Yeah, when I was eating my trail mix I laughed and snarfed a carob chip up my nose and now it’s making me sneeze.”
When I told Keith, he said, “Oh. Now it makes sense why Owen said, ‘Yum!’ when he sneezed the brown gook.”
Ewwwww. ….
Tags: carob chips, snarf, sneeze