I deflected a WHOPPER of a mess last night.
Our family was getting ready for Bible study and it was about 6:30 p.m. Everyone was doing his or her own thing. I happened to be in the bedroom folding clothes when I heard Jillian, who was in the living room, gagging on something. I ran in right away to make sure she wasn't choking on something. Her siblings sometimes leave small toys on the ground that Jillian shouldn't have.
I walked in to find Jillian amidst a scattered mass of Whoppers chocolate candy. She has no teeth but she was gumming/gagging on three of them and holding another two, one in each hand. She was fine when I found her. She had managed to roll that Whopper that was gagging her back into the front of her mouth. She was pleased, and her chocolate-covered face said it all.
I took the Whoppers out of Jillian's hands and wiped them off. I allowed her to finish eating the three in her mouth. By the time her hands were washed they had melted down far enough not to be a choking hazard. I told Dawson (the owner of the Whopper box found beside the pile) to come pick them up and put them away. I then took Jillian to sit on the floor of my room while I finished folding clothes.
I finished folding and came back into the living room. I caught Dawson out of the corner of my eye and looked over. He was sitting with the bucket of his toy dump truck just chock full of Whoppers. I had to think about this from his perspective. Those Whoppers look an awful lot like brown boulders that need to be moved by a dump truck, don't they? Well, Dawson thought so, anyway. He wasn't eating them, just playing with them. I grabbed the camera (again) and called Travis in. I then put Jillian back onto the ground so I could snap the picture.
Jillian made a b-line for those Whoppers. Jillian is getting fast, and when it came to those Whoppers, she was on a mission. Dawson just sat there and watched while she came crawling over. Travis picked her up to avoid another gagging child and Whopper mess.
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