One of my favorite tools of the trade finally bit the dust. I absoulutely love the hospital grade aspirator. Don't even bother with the store bought ones. After suctioning out my kids' heads all weekend--one of my favorite things to do when they're sick, much to their dismay--the bulb poppped open. Caroline has learned to just sit still and let me do it, but Roy Austin sees it coming and starts shaking his head back and forth. I have to literally lay on top of his arms and force that thing into his nose! If you get weak on subjects like this, then stop reading. I have to report that when it opened, I looked inside and it was DI-SCUSTING!!! And the smell? Oh, it was awful! I don't know why, but it was. Good thing I have an 'ol trusty back up. This brings me to a question to ask this morning: What kind of "nasty" things do you enjoy doing? Kristi Smalley, I'm sure you won't answer because anything makes you want to throw up.
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Donna--I am laughing--let me explain.
Last night I was waiting for Dan Dan and Maddie to get showers so we could start a movie (Evan Almighty, BTW--great movie). Anyway, there was NOTHING on TV to watch so I watched Celebrity Family Fued. One of the questions was, "Name something that someone would ask you to smell?" (Laughing) I instantly thought of us girls and how we "smell" things.
Anyway, I know what you mean about the hospital aspirator. I have a few if you need one. And, you gotta wash them out every so often girl!
Perfect post for me this morning. I just did the most grossest (if this is a word) thing ever!! Well, I was taking more morning walk with Sarah in the stoller and Samson (choc lab) beside me and well usually we walk around 9am, but today I got started at 8am, well I guess Samson did not have time to take his morning "poop", so as we are walking my neighborhood all the sudden he just scrunches up and starts "pooping" while continuing to walk and keep up with me! It was all over the pavement, at least 4 "poops". To make it even worse it was at the house right across from us and the guy and girl were both home (a couple about our age). So I continued my walking thinking should I shovel it up or just leave it? Finally after a few more laps another one of my nieghbors come out to walk and I had to tell her to watch her step. After that I just put Samson up, got Mitchell's shovel out, and with Sarah on my hip and shovel in hand I went to shovel the poop up. Well it had not hardened so it was a complete mess. I just scraped it to our nieghbors yard then proceeded to get it onto the shovel then placed it in our yard. I had to do this about 4 times and the smell was not pleasant. But I did get the majority (not quite all) of it up and back in our yard. It was so gross!! Hope this wasn't too much for you today.
Hello! I do wash them out every so often. I'm not some sicko who never cleans out utensils that go into noses!
Now, Don-Don...let's not be ugly to o'l Kristi. Denise, you need to expound of "what smells" you all smelled. Hmmmm????
OK, there are many gross things I have to do but there is one smell I enjoy. I enjoy the smell of baby slobber. To quote Troy Page...the smell of LICK. When we were at LU he was talking about the smell of LICK. I was like, "Troy, what in the world is LICK?" He said, "Didn't you ever as a kid, lick the back of your hand or arm and then smell it? That is the smell of LICK." (No, Troy, I didn't make a habit of licking myself) Anyway, me and Mike have borrowed that term over the years in reference to the above slobber smell. Like when Olivia is teething and slobbers all over her shirt....I will sniff her collar and it has THAT SMELL. Also, when you go to kiss them and they have that same sweet slobber smell around their mouth or their pacifiers will smell like it when you just pull it out of their mouth. LOVE IT! (I now feel so vulnerable and exposed)
All I'm going to say is mom's arm.
I love getting the "cheese" out from my baby's fat rolls!!!! Ha! HA! Ha!
My "hospital grade" one broke a few weeks ago...I almost cried. May need the next momma to have a baby get me one, haha! Oh my mom's feet hands down is the WORSE smell!! When she visits us we are usually running around all day long...and by evening when she kicks her feet up Tom and I want to puke!!! hahhaha
Donna, I am LAUGHING! Danny has two places like moms arm. THAT is all I am saying! NO questions!
AND, I know you wash them between children, but I mean REALLY wash them with a bleach cleaner and HOT water! then dry it right side up to drain.
Now Reber girls....you can't just leave us hanging. Jenius, maybe you can expound for us.
All of you girls are too funny! I am in between laughing and gagging!
Gross! I didn't realize those things can start smelling after a while. I'll make sure and clean mine good when we have the baby. I'm with Julie...I'm laughing and gagging at the same time with all the comments.
Okay, here's the weird thing I like to smell. Sometimes (I'm shaking while I type this) I will take my pointer finger and rub my chin (the indenteded area between my lip and my chin) and rub back and forth real hard until I rub some dead skin off (at the end of the day of course). It has a certain smell to it and it always feels good to rub that old skin away. Now, talk about feeling vulnerable Kristi! I guarentee you all will try it now!
I just did! Nasty! It's like the nasty smell when you rub behind your ear after a long day. Gross! I will be vulnerable for a second and admit that when I was pregnant and my belly button started to come out, all the gunk and dead skin that was stuck in there finally came out and it had that chin smell that Dolly just described so well. SICK!
The aspirator had the smell of just rotten-ness.
Oh, and Kristi. You need to do a new post! I'm getting tired of seeing Preston's blue tongue.
I was never given the one at the hospital so I have the kind that NEVER works. All this time I thought it was me!
I am laughing out loud by all your comments. You girls are so funny!
Kristi, Donna noted we want an updated entry on your blog...can you post some photographs of your remodeled kitchen and feel free to add some photographs of your classy neighbors yard (plastic flower neighbor) if they splurge for the 4th and add more blue and red flowers :)
Girls, this is HYSTERICAL reading ---I am LOL! And of course, I had to bring my husband in on it, too ---he's cracking up as well! All I can say is ---this must be a generational thing (see, my age is coming out...) cause I'm not about to share my grossness with you'all! haha! But I can relate to EACH and every one of yours ---Donna, I don't know how you think up these questions, but they sure are funny ---great blog!
I am in Danny's office at church because I have nothing to do while the children are in their classes tonight---I AM LAUGHING OUT LOUD! I had to cover my mouth so the people out in the main office would not hear me. This post is so funny!
Ahhhhhh....Hey Sara, I have an extra aspirator if you want one. The hospital ones really do work the best.
Yes, KS...NEW POST! Big time!
Girls, you all are just killing me. This summer has messed me up with blogging b/c Olivia is transitioning from 2 naps to 1. I used to blog in the morning when she was down for nap #1. Also, my kids are keeping me busy now that they are out of school and we compete for the computer, my house has been torn up for two weeks, my electrical lines have been worked on for days which causes our power to go in and out, etc, etc. There are reasons. I will work on one tonight or tomorrow if I have to lose sleep. SHEESH! (THIS PRESSURE, LADIES, IS THE EPITOME OF NASTINESS!)
I do have one thing to add. Have you ever noticed that as humans we automatically sniff things that we KNOW are going to be disgusting but we do it anyway? Case in point, you smelling your navel fuzz, Donna. WHY, OH WHY?????
Dolly, I have never paid any mind to my little chin section that you mentioned but I now have a new habit. Gee, thanks.
Donna, let me know if you need another aspirator. I'll be happy to snag one or two...at least until January!!!
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who enjoys grossness to some extent. I am thrilled when someone comes up with a nice juicy boil. There is something so satisfying and almost cathartic about draining all that nastiness out of someone's skin. It's also nice that the person feels so much better when I'm done! :)
Chelle! I am dying laughing. That is so funny! I was going to type that, but I didn't know if the blogging world would think I was disgusting. I'll admit it, though. Nothing pleases me more than a good old zit. Case in point...I have one on my nose right now and I've been holding my hands down to wait for the right moment. It's a hard thing to do. I love them though. It makes Roy so mad when I scour his back some times!!!
OK, for Kristi, and anyone else who is curious about my arm. I have this little hole...I guess it's actually an enlarged pore....right close to the crease in my left arm....you know, where my elbow bends. Anyway, I guess it fills will oils and other gunk. Once in a while I notice that it is a little puffy, and I'm able to squeeze it like a zit. When I do, a stream of white stuff springs out of it.....and the smell is putrid!! Of course it needs to be smelled...don't know why...but it does. Why are we like that? As Denise said, Danny has a couple places on him like that, too, and I think Denise is the one who squeezes and smells them. Aren't we soooo gross? On another note. When you smell a skunk, do you want to smell and smell and smell? I don't know why, but I do. As bad as the odor is, something just makes me want to keep smelling. Am I wierd or what?
Time for your nose picture Donna.....before and after.
Jane
Oh so many points to make in this comment:
1. Only hospital aspirator's work; after ours died I bought a replacement at Target. I was very disappointed.
2. I don't smell nail clippings or q-tips used to clean my children's ears, but I MUST.DO.THESE.THINGS. It might be considered some sort of obsession.
3. What does Chelle mean about getting you an aspirator until January? Inquiring minds need to know.
As always - GREAT POST!
MOM! I can't believe that you admitted that about your arm! Now that's funny.
Chelle--I'm wondering the same thing. What's happening in January?
Nancy, I'm confused. You do or you don't smell nail clippings and q-tips?! LOL if you do.
Oh, and Jane...the picture is reallllllllllly embarrassing. Let's just say that my little zit is on the mend.
Again, I am LAUGHING out LOUD! This post and the comments are so funny. Mom, you are funny. We all LOVE to watch the hole come "unplugged."
OK, I just came in from an evening out and the last few comments about unplugging the pore did get to me. I am fanning my face right now so I don't upchuck my supper. WOOZY!!!
Thanks for being a great sport, Jenius. You are so funny!
We need HPS to add to this mix.
I am shocked that my wife hasn't commented on here yet. This subject has her name written all over it! I guess now I've learned she may not be so weird after all.
LOL Tiger Dave! Chrystal...give us your opinion. I want to know what gross things you enjoy:)
Tiger Dave, do you do anything gross or is it just a girl thing?
Oh, I don't smell the q-tip or the nail clippings - I'm just obsessed about trimmed nails and clean ears.
And have we heard back from Chelle yet? What is the significance of January?
I can just smell mom's arm hole now! Yuck!
Poor mom!
We all have things that get smelly at times. Poor Jenius just happens to be the point of interest.
hilarious! you Reber's are so honest!! lol I love it!
Ok, yes, I admit it . . . I love smelling and observing gross things. Everything from scabs to bugers to ear wax, I just have to disect it and see what it's made of. I can't believe I just wrote that.
As for Chelle, let's just say her job is going to become much more like ours in January!! :)
Chrystal, you are one funny girl! You just gave me a big laugh! And I love her husbands handle name in the blog world. hahahha!
Chrystal, everything you described I agree with. I LOVE when my kids get big boogers in their noses. My little pinky finger nail goes right up there to grab it.
I'm SOOOO glad this blog is private.
Man, why do I always come in on the tail end of these comment marathons?
I smell EVERYTHING! I check my underarms frequently, I smell Wesley's bottom to see if he's pooped, cups that have been in the car for a week that I know will reek, I'll even smell the tips of my fingers after I've scratched my head - if it's bad, time for a wash. That's really disgusting. Paul has caught me doing that and asked me why I'm smelling my fingers. THAT'S EMBARRASSING!
Donna - I'm SO with you on the belly button thing. I can't believe I will admit this, but it was strangely satisfying when I was able to give it a good cleaning when I was pregnant.
My secret gross enjoyment? Cleaning out the bathroom drain. I don't look forward to doing it, but after it's finished, I'm so pleased with myself!
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