The Princess and the Pea

Only...instead of the pea being under a pile of mattresses, Anna put it up her nose.  In a moment of dinnertime theatrics she thought it would be hysterical to put a pea in each nostril.  Yes, hilarious.  Especially when the one in her left nostril became stuck and, despite my pleas to stop sticking her finger in her nose, she managed to push it way out of reach. 

A quick web search provided a host of removal options (glad to know my kid isn't the only one who has ever done this).  Oh, and the sites also made me think she was going to die (if it's online, it's true!). 

My first instinct was to grab tweezers and fish it out - pretty much every site said that was the worst idea ever.  Well, she wouldn't have let me anyways and she is now convinced tweezers are a torture device.  Hope she doesn't get a splinter soon...

She doesn't get the concept of blowing her nose so that was out.  In the end we tried:

1. The blue nose bulb

2. Smelling pepper to induce a sneeze (I ended up sneezing)

3. Fake sneezing

4. Holding her right nostril closed while breathing into her mouth

None of that work so we told her to pretend she was a bull snorting.  Voila – flying pea...