In God We Trust is a Mouthful!

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Abraham Lincoln nearly escaped with his copper covering intact tonight!

Mom: Ethan, let's wake up and go potty (dragging the limp boy from his bed). Oh darn it, you're already soaked. Etttttthhhhhannn.

Ethan: (sitting on side of bed, slumped over and ready to head dive into the carpet) He makes some mouthy noises (which are strictly prohibited around mom).

Mom: Ethan, Ethan! What is that noise. Are you sucking on something? What are you sucking on?

Ethan: "hrgjrdks" (mouthy noise again) and a "splat" produces one shiny Abraham Lincoln copper penny.

Mom: Ethan! Do you realize you could have choked on this? Do you want momma to lose her little boy? Mom is worried about you. We DON'T put anything in our mouths (freaking out because he has been asleep for two hours and counting)!

Ethan: (Slips into his clean p.j.s, dives back into his pillow without a care in the world.)

(I sit stunned at the bedside, picturing all the craziness that might have happened during the two hours that Abraham was slumbering in his mouth. I get up after the pictures in my mind are too much and frantically dial my mom.)

BRRRGGG. BRRRGGG. Okay she is not at home. Cell phone, right! BRRRGG. BRRRGG. Hello? Are you at dinner with your friend? Hey mom, guess what Ethan did? Can you believe he did that? I could have found him in the morning all blue! I know, I worry too much! I wonder where I get that? But blue mom, aspiration and all. It could have happened! Okay, I will go give him a kiss and try not to think about it. Okay, don't tell dad he would just worry more. Have a nice dinner, mom! I love you, too.

Comments

Anonymous said…
That is wild! What was he thinking? I don't understand why kids always want to put stuff in their mouths. I swallowed a necklace when I was a kid.
7:47 AM
McDreamy said…
don't you hate mama imaginations? ugh. i do, almost as much as the close calls themselves. i'm so glad all was well, except some soggy jammies :)
11:21 AM
Kathie's Spot on the Web! said…
ANG ANG ANG. Just keeping checking his BM's for change. Brian did it too. Only once thought. Can you imagine all the germs on that one penny. Any way ask your mom what you did with a safety pin when you were little. Ouch.
11:25 AM
Angelina said…
Aunt Kathy,
Thank you for bringing up such a fond memory. I remeber the safety pin, however old I was, and the doctor that made me very uncomfortable trying to remove it! Of course, I had to use it when it was open...! The comment you made was the same that my mom made. I just didn't want everyone to hear that God aweful story! Sorry readers. Betty betty, I hope that all was well when it passed. Or are you still carrying around that necklace. I don't know why kids do what they do...probably just to worry their mamma's
7:05 PM
Kathie's Spot on the Web! said…
There was hundreds of thing you could have did with a safety pin. Just reminding you that you were young once too and Ethan will learn. Just like you did and later someday you can write in his blog about the penny. You knew I had to comment. You just knew. I am just waiting for one of my kids to get a blog cause I will be commenting alot. Hum... Maybe that is why they don't have a blog... Ya think.
4:40 AM
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