please don't put beans up your nose...

...or chicken nuggets. Or asparagus.

We avoided the beans, but Eleanor managed to stick bits of each of the others up her nose at dinner tonight. We pulled them back out. Well, we thought we did.

Until she sneezed, and an inch-and-a-half long piece of partially chewed asparagus shot out of her right nostril.

After falling out of our chairs in disgust and hilarity, I went to fetch the tweezers, and managed to pull a small piece of what I think was chicken out of the other nostril.

I wonder if a 22-month-old can associate the discomfort of having things yanked OUT of her nose with the concept that perhaps she shouldn't put things IN there? Or is that just expecting too much?