the prince and the pea

This picture is a souvenier for Ezra. ( i needed proof, but wanted to throw this gross thing away too!)

My Kids and i were innocently planting seeds in peat moss on tuesday.
there were peas, tomatoes, and Zucchini poured out the package of pea seeds and a couple of the peas fell on the floor.
i couldn't find them, but proceeded to plant all of them. forgetting about the previous days events i went on with my day on Wednesday. i had a hair appointment at noon, so i was carefully arranging and trying to get my responsibilities accomplished. I was kind of annoyed when Ezra would not stop whining about something. he kept coming up to me in a whiny voice saying , My nose mommy------like he could not articulate what he wanted to tell me. after the second time of complaining, he sounded a little more panicked. so i looked at his nose with concern. i could clearly see that there was something stuck up there. i didn't know what it was. i suspected it was a pea seed. because of how round it was. i asked him if it was food and he said yes "its food mommy, its food!!" so i tried getting it out with tweezers. it was too round. i tried medical clamp scissors too. it was pretty stuck. the tricky thing was is, that because it was a seed, it was getting larger, and absorbing liquid from his nose. so i tried a saline wash to try and wash it out. but it was stuck. he had enough air to breath just fine, so i felt good about that. One time, ruby had a Polly pocket shoe up her nose when she was this age, and she didn't have any room to breath. we were pretty panicked and wanted to take her to the ER. so anyway, to make a long story short---the happy ending is, that the pediatrician nurse told us to plug the nostril that was clear, and blow on his mouth ( like mouth to mouth) and it should push it out. "if it doesn't work, then you'll have to bring him in"......they said. so i tried it and after three blows it worked!!!! the pea came out. i was so excited and delighted. why doesn't someone make a handbook for weird incidences like this? it would save many trips to the doctor.