Rice-a-roni

From Rob's blog:
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so janie and i were having some solo dinner time tonight at her favorite place: baja fresh.
she eats their rice like cookie monster eats cookies:
like a savage.



she grabs it by the handfuls and jams it into her mouth-
and of course- it gets on her cheeks, in her hair and tonight-
one grain of rice went half way into her nostril.

so- being the shameless dad-
i tried to pick it out-
which made her laugh- loud and hard.
unfortunately, my efforts didn’t help much-
it only drove that little kernel of rice further up her nose.
i got desperate.
i pulled out the little plastic baby fork from her baby-bag
and shamelessly started to dig for that grain of rice!

that made her wiggle and laugh even more-
it was at that moment that i realized:
i’m in a public restaurant, digging a piece of rice out of my daughter’s nose-
and she is making a loud laughing sound.
“janie sit still!” i said “dad is trying to dig rice out of your nose!”
i couldn't help but laugh myself as i was digging.

well, when jane is laughing, and then i start laughing,
she starts laughing uncontrollably- squealing
and she does what a lot of people do when they laugh uncontrollably:
she snorts.
and at the table tonight, while she was laughing, she did a loud laughing snort.
“oh no!” i thought-
then i looked up her nose- no rice!
“janie! YOU SNORTED THE RICE!” i said loudly-
the scene that we had made only got bigger-
and her laughter got wilder and louder-
she does it to embarrass me- i know it.
needless to say- we left soon after that- laughing all the way.