Boy Genius

Of course I know my son is smart. Without the use of words and lacking the ability to NOT eat stuff off the floor, my son still commands this house. We are amazed by everything about him but he did something that could only be called brilliant.

We've all had colds this week (thank you Emmy's preschool, AKA Germapalooza). Aidan didn't have it yet and frankly I was dreading it. He's quite the handful when he doesn't feel good, we're talking serious meltdowns. So when he started sniffling, I was pretty nervous. Then I envisioned the process of using the nasal aspirator (the Booger Sucker as we call it) on him. I was in a word, scared.

In my moment of desperation I held a tissue to his nose. Know what he did? He BLEW HIS NOSE. And not just a little exhale out, but a full on nose blow that cleared the pipes. Emmy is still working on this one. Heck, I'm not even that good at it.

It is a thing of beauty to a tired mom. The whole time he's been sick he's been blowing his nose, not wiping it on me or the dog, not sucking in and getting more stopped up.

Maybe in your world this isn't such a big deal, but for me it is genius.