Today I super-glued a mouse's head back on. It was plastic, but still, I got close to a mouse! It was Baby Girl's toy "Gus-Gus" from Cinderella. He was mysteriously decapitated earlier this week and until today we couldn't keep track of both ends of him. When I found both head and body today I thought I'd better break out the super-glue.
As "Gus-Gus" sat drying on the island in the kitchen, I went to the living room (rigg-a-rum as my kids call it) to fold the mountain of laundry growing on the couch. A few minutes later I heard #1 Son come into the kitchen. He found the abandoned bowl of goldfish crackers, and I thought he went back to his room to eat them. Pretty soon I heard a strange moan and spitting sounds. Apparently he found "Gus-Gus" and got a little glue on his finger. Doing what any normal little boy would do, he licked the glue off his finger.
I'm pleased to report that once it dries, super-glue peels off the tongue and teeth fairly easily. The hardest part was getting it off the roof of his mouth. A good scrubbing with the toothbrush took care of it.
Incidentally, did you know that smiling represses the gag reflex?
I'm being offered jewelry as a bribe. I'd better go play with my daughter!
4 comments:
I did an informal survey back in college (okay, it was really informal!) - and found that 3 out of 5 guys ate paste when they were younger... so your son is right on the mark with the majority of the male gender, I guess.
Thanks for the comment and for de-lurking!
As I'm still in time for "de-lurking" day, I thought I'd delurk and say "your a good mom, charlie brown." - I know it doesn't make sense, but I'm forever tell Jay he's a "good man, Charlie Brown" so well... your a good mom. Your blog makes me smile :)
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How old is number one son? He ate the goldfish?
P.S. Love your blog. I'll be back!
Cate, #1 Son is 2 1/2. I guess I left out the word "crackers" when discussing the goldfish. They're an entire level on the food pyramid at our house.
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