New Year's Day Fun!

So hopefully the first day of 2008 is not indicitive of the entire year. On Tuesday, Granger swallowed a quarter. I was paying some bills on the computer and Grae was in the same room as me and just started gagging. I grabbed him and took him to the garbage (it was the closest thing) so I wouldn't have to clean up throw up. I kept telling him, "Stop putting your fingers down your throat." I didn't know why he was doing it. He was having a hard time breathing and so I was kinda freaking out. I was completely confused. Between gags he told me he swallowed "money". I remembered him showing me a shiny quarter he found about 15 minutes before all this happened. Great. Four and a half year olds shouldn't swallow quarters. After finding my phone, car charger (of course my phone was dead) car keys, and three pairs of shoes for the kids (I think five of them were for the right foot), I packed my three kids in the car (Lynn was gone) and went to the Urgent Care. Grae was breathing fine by now but the Urgent Care was closed. Yes, there are downfalls to living in a small town, especially on a holiday. We drove to the E.R. in Show Low, about 20 minutes away. Grae fell into a deep sleep before we even left the town of Snowflake and I kept twisting around and flicking him to make sure he was still alive. I met Lynn at the hospital because he was in Show Low at the time doing some "business". When I went in, the nurse told me that there was nothing they could do and I should just go home and wait for nature to take it's course... Lynn said, "Great. Maybe we could get all our kids to crap money. Our financial worries would be solved!" So everytime Grae does his duty, all five of us crowd around the toilet bowl looking for something shiny. It's great family time. Well, it's Friday and we're still waiting....