This morning while making breakfast, Tiauna says to me with a very concerned look on her face, "Rayah has a shoe in her nose." Figuring that this was just another of the many silly things that are not true that they tell me all day, I dismissively told Rayah to take the shoe out of her nose. Tiauna was persistent and her worried face and Rayah's calm insistence started to worry me. I imagined a tiny little doll shoe lodged in her nose and started questioning them more seriously as to the truth.
That's when Derek says, "It's not a shoe. It's a tissue up her nose, she told me the same thing last night while I was making dinner." Realizing that these two words do sound very close, and in the mumbled English that a 4 year old speaks I sillilly overreacted!! I started laughing to a still concerned Tiaunna that I thought she had told me Rayah stuck a doll shoe up her nose!! She calmly says, "I did!! She has a doll shoe in her nose!!"
Derek had Rayah come over to him so that he could look up her nose and sure enough there was a tiny pink doll shoe!!!! Not only did she really have it up there, but she had slept with it there all night!!! Her only response, a put out ....."I could still breath!!" As if to tell us that she thought we were making a big deal about nothing!! She ended up shooting it out like a snot rocket and going right back to playing.
