Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Don't Ask Don't Tell

We have borrowed a policy from the US Gov't around here. The policy surrounds the controversy that is boogers.
It's like this. The Bean is a booger picker. Yep. Also? She used to eat them. Unashamedly eat them. Thankfully this has never been a public thing. She would just wait until she was in bed at night and go to town. I first realized this was goin on, when one day I could hear nose wheezes from across the room and she adamantly refused to let me clean her nose. Eventually, she hollered "but Mama! If you clean them out in the daytime, then I can't get 'em out at night!!!"
We have had MANY Interventions with Ev about her "habit". Seriously, I mean Interventions, with her extended family, even. We made progress of sorts. She does not eat them anymore (so she says) but she will still admit to picking her nose and liking it ("it's fun"). Kids! Personally I think that this whole thing is funny and just what you get when you have little savages running about, I think it's normal to a point. Aunt Melissa however? Aunt Melissa just looses her mind about this whole thing.
After a few Interventions and serious lecturing about germs and such, Ev seems to be on the wagon. It is just better to keep the don't ask don't tell mentality.
DADT used to be just about boogers. Now we have had to expand that umbrella to include, wait for it...... feet smelling.
What is up with this kid?!?!?!
Les caught her last week. He was a bit dismayed.
She was taking a small plastic toy and vigorously rubbing it between her toes - and. then. sniffing. the. toy.
Les asked her what in tarnation she was doing. Her reply? "Smelling my feet."
Ew.

2 comments:

Special K said...

Okay... I've seen some pretty nasty dead people in my line of work... but that just made me gag. Eeewww.

kitchu said...

glad i was done swallowing my diet coke. cuz it would have gone through my nose. i'm cracking up.