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I shoved rocks, lots of little rocks up my noise when I was 4. Had to go to Dr. Goats, big scary man to get them out. My kids so far have spared me the pay back.

I have to say how impressed I am that you knew what you were having for dinner at lunch time. You are a hero I never aspire to in the summer. It's 5:20 and I still don't know what we are having for dinner.

I guess I have to delurk for this...
My 2 year old daughter shoved a pony bead up her nose. Oh she thought it was funny when she did it, then we realized it was stuck and no amount of blowing was going to get it out because hey! pony beads have holes that air flows through!

We had to take her to the pediatrician's office and oh did they laugh at us, every dr and intern there had to come in and laugh at us. She will never do that again (mostly because she will never ever see another pony bead).

how i laughed at this one!
i don't have kids...but i do have an object-up-nose story as well.
me at two years, in love with raisens...so much so that i stuck one up my nose. whilst at the doc's office, one sneeze took care of that raisen.
good memories.
heh.

Food up the nose? Been there, done that.

For me it was a peanut up the nose when I was 3.

Trip to doctor? Check.

Much laughing when told about this as an adult? Check.

Payback coming my way when I have kids? Most definitely check.

My brother came home from school once and told us that a kid had shoved a crayon up his nose. As he had no crayon sticking out of his nose, we all made sympathetic noises and moved on.
After two more times of telling the story and our sympathy beginning to wane, he looked at me and said with the most pitiful voice I've ever heard "Can someone please get it out?"
We had to take him to the ER to have the quarter inch of orange crayon removed from all the way back in his nose.
Still makes me laugh. 'Cause I'm cruel.

so, apparently i never shoved anything up my nose as a kid.
damn, i don't have any good stories.

I also never stuck anything up my nose, (that I remember) but my brother got his potty chair stuck on his head and the fire department had to come and cut it off. I have the newspaper clipping to prove it...and I showed it to all his girlfriends. What are little sisters for?

My mother was a peds nurse for several years, and she always tells this story:

A mother kept calling, complaining that her daughter had bad breath. Mom kept saying, 'Well, brush her teeth.' The lady was all, 'I HAVE.' She called for weeks, and tried everything Mom suggested. Mom was getting tired of dealing with her, so finally scheduled the child for an appointment with the pediatrician.

Mom was the attending nurse, and it was discovered that there was something up the little girl's nose. What was it? A piece of sponge. It had been up there long enough that it started to rot, and had given the little girl an infection. Mom said the child REEKED, and now understood why the mother would call in tears because her daughter smelled so bad she couldn't bear to be near her. She also said that it got worse when the sponge was removed and that they couldn't use the exam room for like two days because the smell was so bad.

So, I guess, peas: it could have been worse. ;)

my god, that had me cracking up. I would FREAK out if my kid had shit stuck up their nose (I have no kids yet, but I have a feeling this is inevitable - the nose bit that is). I don't remember anything being stuck in my nose but I do remember sneezing a mouthful of oatmeal on my sister's face....it was an accident, I SWEAR!!! But man, did I get it.

BWAHAHAHA!

I'm sorry but that was hysterical.

mine was a jelly ring..like the bracelets. Careful those things can go high if you breath in too hard.

Okay, I have to delurk. My 18 month old stuck one of those little weedy flowers up her nose. She came and showed it to me, and trying to get it out got it stuck up there even more.

I called the advice nurse who had the nerve to laugh and reassure me (1st time mom) that it would not sprout and grow a flower out of her nose. She told me because it's such a soft thing that she'd probably sneeze it out, but if she doesn't, observe her for the next few days and make sure it doesn't get infected.

She did indeed sneeze it out, but I was a wreck...

that's my girl.

Oh man! Beege! The sponge! I'm so freaked out by that story!

I think of all the things that kids shove up their noses, peas would have to be one of the better choices. They're soft and should worse come to worse you could press her nose together and crush the pea and then have her blow it out.

Peanuts and rocks and the like have got to be a nightmare.

I just love that Clara Jane!

Wait 'til she starts putting Matchbox cars up her ass and asking you to take her in for an X-Ray.

wendy, tell me that is just an idea you made up. :-) and mark and i were just saying that it seems that some kids at the shoving things up their nose's types and some are not. charlotte is more the putting everything in her mouth type. still.

Jen, I take it you haven't seen "Jackass: The Movie".

nope, im a jackass virgin.

There's a delightful scene where one of the guys, with the assistance of a big tube of KY, inserted a Matchbox car up his ass. Then, he went to a doctor, claimed that he had gotten really drunk at a party and was feeling some discomfort. The doctor did X-rays and the guy gave the kind of reaction you'd expect if you discovered that, unbeknownst to you, someone had inserted a Matchbox car up your ass.

Stellar entertainment. My mom loves it.

oh, you got lucky, didn't have to go to the hospital to get it all the peas out! I think all kids do something like that at some time. hasn't happened to me YET :)