The Things Kids Say:

Today when I picked Hayden up from school he very seriously said to me, "Mom, when I was at recess today, I climbed the very top of the pile of ice and I made a promise to the world."

"Oh, yeah?" I asked, while laughing a bit, "What did you promise?"

"I made a promise to the world that I would save it! That I would never forget my promise."

Now I was really laughing, thinking he was joking.

He looked at me very seriously and asked, "What?"

What an ambitious boy I have that wants to save the world while in kindergarten!

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Maya said the lunch prayer. She said, "Heavenly Father, Bless that we'll be AWESOME! and bless that Hayden will eat his lunch."

Maya also said the evening prayer, where she recapped her day. "Heavenly Father, we went to the pool, I got water in my nose, I can jump into the water by myself and it was fun. Dad put a quarter in the locker. Amen."

I love her little prayers. She often asks that her other siblings will learn to obey. Such simple faith. Her daily recaps are my favorite! I'm sure that those are the types of things Heavenly Father wants to hear anyway!

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Hayden woke up and said, "Mom! Today I am going to do everything you ask me to because I feel REFRESHED!"

It's Time To Play:

MYSTERY DIAGNOSIS!

Here are your clues:
-Stuffy nose in only one nostril
-Foul smelling breath

Here are your choices:
A) Sinus infection
B) Halitosis
C) Common Cold or

D) Play Dough up the nose

I'm sure you can guess the answer now!

D.

Are you as shocked as we were?! Here's the story:

For over a month, Maya has had this horrible rank breath. Like, really bad, can't stand being around her, what on earth is that smell, kind of bad. I thought it was many things at first: Not washing her hands after using the bathroom, halitosis, something wrong with her digestion, disease in her mouth, sinus drainage, on and on. Just when I would think I knew for sure what it was, I would rule it out for different reasons. And sometimes the smell would go away for a day or two, so it was really hard to know what was the matter.

Yesterday I decided I could not take the smell any more and I made an appointment for her to see the doctor today. I did feel kind of stupid making the appointment.
Me: "Um, hi. I'd like to make an appointment for my three year old."
Nurse:"What are her symptoms?"
Me:"Uh, really bad breath."
Nurse (chuckling out loud) "O.K. see you at 10" ...still chuckling.

When the doctor looked up her nose, she decided to see if the "green snot" was something else. We held poor Maya down (and she was so brave!) and the doctor pulled out this (hopefully you are done eating as you read this!) huge green blob the size of a grape.

Play dough.

The green play dough I made for her in early December.

She's been going around with rotting play dough in her nose for 5 weeks.

Gross.

But, she's all better now and the smell is gone.

But, yeah, I know.

Gross.