Sweet Anxiety

The first time I checked on Cam tonight after I put him to bed, he was sitting straight up in his bed with a dental flosser in his hand.  

He looked up at me so concerned and said, 

"I can't get my foot out of my teeth!"

Of course his foot wasn't in his mouth, but I knew EXACTLY what he was talking about.

 

This kid is CONSTANTLY putting his fingers and his TOES in his mouth to bite his nails.  

He usually does it out of anxiety or when he gets nervous with people.  

But it's not just people, he also screams like a girl when he sees a bird because he thinks they are going to attack him or worries that our car will spontaneously start on fire or that he needs to save Brenden from the gas line in the lawn.   

He has a very active imagination that just might have come from the time the bird actually attacked him, the time we drove past a car literally blazing on fire on the side of the road or when I tried to explain to him that they put little flags in the lawn to mark where the gas lines are so they don't hit them.  I may have said the gas lines could blow up, idk.  

I am always reminding him "hands down" 

but he still chews on his fingers and I guess now his TOES!  

That may be why he got a huge infection on his big toe about two weeks ago.  

I tried to keep it clean and pus-free, but after about a week, I decided I had better take him into the doctor's because the pus kept coming! 

 The doctor said I took good care of it, but that he'd better give him an antibiotic just in case, especially since he STILL had an ear infection from when we were in Maui!  

(Or else got another one in between that time and now)

His toe looks better now, but this same toe was the one STUCK IN HIS TEETH!  

Oh yuck.  

Kids do yucky things don't they?

I need to buy this.  

Soon.

I also need to get these kids some clothes to wear when we're outside bored and waiting for Rhett to come home.  

Cam strips to his underoos as soon as we get home from school 

and of course Bren has to do whatever his Brudder does.  

At least they're entertaining!