You think you know your kids . . .

Five years and four kids, and yesterday was our first trip to the doctor to deal with a foreign object stuck in a body orifice.

Not Will or Helen, who at 2 are really too young to know any better. Not even Joseph, who has a bit of an oral fixation plus is fidgety, and is constantly putting things in his mouth and other places they don't belong.

Nope, it was Charlie. Had I been asked, I definitely would have identified Charlie, our rule follower, as the kid LEAST likely to do something like that. Especially now that he's five years old and possesses reasoning skills and all. That was before the school called yesterday after lunch to tell me that Charlie had stuck a perler bead up his nose during nap (see below if you don't know what a perler bead is, and you too can wonder why he had this during nap time).

He was embarrassed enough to agree to sit very still while the doctor got it out. All is well now. Good times.

The offending perler bead, now outside the nose