The End of an "Ear"a...

For those of you who do not know, I have identical twin girls. To tell them apart with ease, I had their ears pierced when they were about 4 months old. Ellie got pink earrings, and Maggie got blue ones. For many around us this became a life saver when trying to tell them apart. I will say that as their mother I can tell them apart without the earrings, but I definitely have become accustom to the ease and convenience of the color coding.

Well, the good news is that nobody swallowed a sharp pink piercing earring. The bad news is that we had to take Ellie, Maggie, and yes even Jon to the ER Saturday night because one little pink intestine perforating earring had gone missing.
The Great Earring Hunt (perhaps we'll make it into a yearly tradition) started at about 3pm. We looked in every toy bucket, under furniture, and we even carefully picked though the vacuum cleaner after using it to suck up everything but a little pink earring. We did find the backing, the one safe to swallow part, on the floor. But no matter how hard we looked we couldn't find the post. So off to the ER we went to have three little tummies x-rayed. Now of course none of this happened during normal hours, because really why go to the ER at all if your not going to be there all night.

At this point I really need to break from the story and say thank you to the Hahne Family. After a quick, pleading phone call, we dropped Eddie and Katie off at their house, where they played, watched a movie, and spent the night having a glorious time. THANK YOU!!!

Back to the plot at hand...

I must say that I really liked our new ER. No, not the sick and infirm, but the nurses, the Dr., and all the other staff. They were Great! They put us in a quiet visitors room instead of the curtained of beds everyone else got. I can tell you from experience that when you have to go to the ER with more than one infant/toddler, you will be so very grateful for a peaceful place to sit.
The Dr. checked all three tummies and sent us home with instructions to find the earring before the kids do. Yeah, that's right, the Great Earring Hunt 2.
We still can't find it, so in the end we have done the only thing left to do.

We removed the other three earrings, because believe me, we don't want to do that ever again.