That Didn't Work

[ricevermicelli]

This is not the funny story I wanted to tell yesterday. That one was a related funny story, but it's been entirely superseded by this other funny story, with which it has substantial overlap.

Yesterday, I made a deal with Hotspur: One penny every time she used the potty (at home, because I just can't even get the reports about what happens elsewhere), and when she has ten pennies, I will trade them in for underwear with princesses. She was delighted, and we found her a box to put her pennies in, and by bedtime, there were three pennies there.

This morning, when I went in to wake Hotspur up, the box was next to her bed, open, and empty. I asked Hotspur what happened to the pennies.

And in what I sincerely hope was one of those fantastic preschooler non-sequiters, Hotspur replied "I still hungry, Mama."

(Pediatrician says it'll be fine.)

Addendum: As I was putting Hotspur to bed tonight, she randomly piped up with "I really eat pennies." Just in case there was any doubt.

Comments

[mizarchivist]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[chalgaryn.livejournal.com]

Apparently she needs more zinc in her diet.

I'm assuming that I would have noticed if our two missing board books suffered the same fate. One of them was small but not _that_ small.

[steuard.livejournal.com]

Blue Snack, Green Snack!

(Thanks for sharing the original story, by the way! I can only assume it was funnier for us than for you.)

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

Apparently she needs more zinc in her diet.

It is cold and flu season!

My mother's tendency to schadenfreude is making more sense to me every day.

[graceo.livejournal.com]

Oh Hotspur! Can I record the video of you telling this story to her prom date? Please?

[catling.livejournal.com]

ROFLMAO. That phrase is not going out of my brain anytime soon. "I really eat pennies." Hahahahaha.

I will not be telling this story to K, lest she get ideas. (She is old enough to know better but if it becomes apparent how funny it is when younger children do it she may decide she has to compete or something)

Remind me to tell you the story of the eraser, K's nose and an ER sometime.

[blk]

On the upside, this is a good thing to learn, before she got her hands on more than three.

Sheesh. :)

[robbbbbb.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I ever told you the story, but my little brother did the same thing when he was right around the age Hotspur is now.

Alex got the penny lodged in his esophagus, and they had to go after it surgically. They ended up going down the throat after it, so they didn't have to crack his chest.

As long as said pennies make it to the stomach, I think you're home free. Just keep an eye on her and make sure they pass. And modern medicine is better now than it was twenty-five years ago, so there's always that.

[ericakeithley.livejournal.com]

When I suspected that C. had swallowed one (or more!) of the nuts (of the hexagonal-and-metal not grows-on-trees varieties) off our kitchen table, the pediatrician looked at me blandly and said, "If it doesn't get stuck on the first part of the journey, you'll see it on the back end." When I asked how I'd know if it got stuck at the beginning he said the boy would be puking. Gotta love the calm pediatricians.

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have heard that story.

Fortunately, our pediatrician takes the same approach as yours.

[robbbbbb.livejournal.com]

I must admit that, "I still hungry Mama," is a much better and funnier response than, "I think I swallowed a penny."

[beah.livejournal.com]

I know there's a joke in here somewhere about deflation and shitting gold bricks...

[quueer.livejournal.com]

I was anti the capitalism approach from the beginning.

RESIST! RESIST! FIGHT THE CAPITALISTS!

[drwex]

Oh dear. That's... amusing, in the abstract man-that-could've-been-much-worse-glad-it'll-be-okay sort of way.

[athenasbanquet.livejournal.com]

My little brother swallowed his tooth-fairy quarter once, whereupon the tooth fairy got ideas about inflation and suddenly teeth were worth a paper dollar. Thanks, little brother!