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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Serious choking hazard....

We ran a ton of errands today.  The kids were exhausted.

We finished up at Costco....I bribed them with hot dogs (our monthly routine).

We got out to the car when I realized I had forgotten a knife to cut Mr. Golden Locks section (he get's about a 1/3 of one of his bros) of "dog" up.

I was not about to go back inside.  So...against my better judgement...I gave it to him....whole.

"He'll chew it," I reasoned with myself.  (Uh huh....)

He was remarkably quiet on the way home (of course, they are usually pretty quiet when they are stuffing their faces) but after hearing soft snoring I realized he had fallen asleep.  Poor thing.

I looked back in my rear view mirror and saw this....

Can't see it?

How about NOW?
When I called his name...he stirred a bit...chomped down a few times...then promptly fell asleep again.

We got home...I got him out of his car seat and took him inside.  I tried to take out the piece of hot dog...except it wasn't really a piece at all.

Yeah, that's right.  He shoved the ENTIRE thing into his mouth and this (above) is what wouldn't fit.  

It made me laugh and scared me at the same time.

I coaxed him into spitting it out in the sink. 

He was none too happy to see it go. 

I am very lucky nothing serious happened to him.

Let's just say that I will NEVER be doing that again.  EVER!   

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4 comments:

Natalie J said...

Scary! I am glad he was asleep and not dead! Love ya!

Melanie said...

Yeah...me too. Like I said, I could hear him snoring. Whew!

Sheena said...

Man. Kids do scary things and it is awful when we contribute to the scary things. I have several such instances where I'm just glad nothing horrible happened.

Grumpy Grateful Mom said...

I'm glad he's OK. Though your picture's adorable. My daughter almost choked on watermelon once. I was actually giving her the heimlich. One of my scariest experiences.