walking through fire...

lately calvary has demonstrated that simply hearing a warning might not be enough to satisfy his curiosity. he has become a child that has to walk through the fire to realize that it burns...
we've learned some valuable lessons from calvary and hopefully he has learned from them as well...
i cannot believe it has taken me this long to chronicle this moment in our history, but i am kind of glad that i can do this more as a lump picture of calvary's personality rather than a freak incident that occurred...because i am learning more every day that these things happen to calvary more often than others mostly because he has to learn the hard way...
a few weeks ago (or maybe a couple of months) we left a play date with harper's best friend from school. we had a great time and were heading home just in time to meet kyle as he came home from work. i was driving down the road and calvary starts screaming. i, being quite used to hearing calvary scream over every little thing, calmly asked him what was wrong. i never expected in a million years to hear what he would then say: "i lost my zipper in my nose!" i look in the rear view mirror and see calvary with blood on his face. i whipped my car in the nearest parking lot (i'm not really sure what i expected to do at that moment but this is what i did). once i got out of the car i looked in his nose, on his clothes, in the car, and could find no evidence of this zipper. i questioned whether he might have dropped the zipper and thought he stuck it up his nose. whatever had happened he had made himself bleed by digging around in his nose looking for the mysteriously missing finishing. i got home, called the doctor, and they said to bring him in immediately. i called kyle, and he was certain that we could get it out ourselves. i still had not seen the zipper so i was skeptical that it was even in there...so, i asked him to get a tissue and blow his nose...after that, if i would pull his cheek to the side and open his nose and shine a flashlight i could catch the smallest glimpse of the pink zipper he had stuck inside his nose. it totally freaked me out.
i knew i could not get it out on my own so i waited 10 minutes for kyle to get home. once he got home we got to work. i had to send harper to her room with oliver jack...harper was so worried that she was hysterical. and then i had to hold his nose open and his head still while kyle sat across his belly holding down both his arms and legs. after we secured him, kyle used tweezers to fish out the zipper. i called the doctor and she as so impressed that we managed to do this ourselves and said we should go and buy ourselves a nice dinner...after all, we just saved about 150.00 in doctor's expenses! the zipper was about 1.5 inches long....i waited to post because i wanted to take a picture...but i lost the zipper (thankfully, not up a nose). it was unbelievable how i could not see this monstrous zipper. he had shoved the thing so far up that it was barely visible. thankfully, my little fire walker has not stuck anything else up his nose after that fateful day.

other walk through fire moments:
1. climbed up his dresser at naptime after we have repeatedly asked him not to do so only to pull the entire dresser over. thankfully, no one was harmed.

2. as we tucked the kids in bed one night he said he had to go to the bathroom. we waited in his room for him to return. he was not gone long, but when he returned he had a bloody spot above his lip. he said he didn't know what happened. i kept looking and had an epiphany and asked, "calvary did you try to shave?" he still denied until kyle said he could give him a special medicine if he did...kyle later called him the worst criminal ever because calvary had left the handle of the razor sticking out of the drawer.

the older he gets the trickery he tries to be. he takes advantage of these brief little moments that he is alone and uses them for his experimentation. hopefully, he will outgrow all of this need to figure things out for himself and just trust that mommy and daddy are not trying to keep him from fun...we are trying to save him from the burn.