suppositories and tomatoes...

So Tuesday morning, Riser woke up fairly grumpy. He does this from time to time (being 2 is enormously hard), so at 1st I just chose to continue about my morning. After a while he started telling me that his bum hurt, and he kept grunting... constipated... nice... Anyway, as he seemed to be growing increasingly uncomfortable, I decided we better take a trip over to his good friends' Bob and Randy Harmon.

I needed to go to the store anyway, so I decided that if after picking up his "mecidine" he seemed to be fairing o.k., we'd continue on and not have to come back later that day... He seemed to be doing well, so on we went... he has decided that he's big enough to walk these days, so we play spot Bob and Randy, and find the next item on the list. I have found that, in the past, this seems to keep him somewhat busy and out of trouble... not so much today...

As we finished up in produce, we headed over to pick up some green peppers (one of Riser's favs) As I bagged and put the pepper in the cart, Riser found what he thought was a tomato (another fav) and before I could see him, took an enormous bite... Here's what he ate...



Not so much a tomato... more like an HABANERO PEPPER!!!

As you might imagine, he started wailing.Having not seen what he had done, I thought it was the potty troubles coming back, then i thought i ran over his toe... then he started yelling "IT'S HOT!!! IT'S HOT!!!" and stuck out his tongue. We got it out and ran over to the dairy department to get a strawberry milk for him to drink. He downed it as quick as he could and in between gulps kept crying and saying "It's still burning mom!" He perked up a little when I asked if he wanted a doughnut. And that seemed to cool it down enough for us to be able to go and pay.

The lady at the Check stand looked at his doughnut and said "Wow your a lucky boy" I just kind of smiled... When she got to the bag containing the Habanero, she said "this is an habanero right?" I said "ummm I think so but I'm not certain..." She said "you're buying but you don't know what it is?" I said "Take a closer look at it." She looked gasped and took a closer look at Riser and said "Oh no!! Is that why his face is all red?" I hadn't noticed, but all around his lips, his face was bright red!! Well, Riser received a little more sympathy from the good folks at Harmon's and we headed home. The whole way home Riser just kept saying "mom, I thought that was a tomato, but that was not a tomato..." poor guy.

P.S. once we were home, he learned that not all all Medicine is for your mouth. suppositories... that was something I could never do again and feel just fine about it.