Where do acorns go?

On the ground, that's where acorns go. We recently had this discussion with Aiden. Why, you ask? Well, he went to daycare a few Mondays ago. I'd made a Tuesday doctor's appointment for him because he kept telling me he had water in his ears. I considered just getting some of the swimmers ear stuff, but I also am a little overly cautious with his ears because of the tubes. It was the first time he'd told me something was bothering him so I thought it was nice he could communicate that at least.

So, off to daycare he goes on Monday, with the water in his ears. And this is the email I get a few hours later:
Aiden had a runny nose and Jessie wanted to wipe his nose.  She asked him to blow and he did and then started trying to put his finger in his nose because something was in there.  Jessie saw something black and she pulled it out and it was a little acorn!!!

So, yeah. Pretty sure it had been up there for two days because we'd spent a lot of Saturday outside and because I saw similar looking acorns in our yard so I think (hope) that's where it came from. (The other explanation would be that he'd put it up there a week and a half before when we'd been on vacation....surely it wasn't up there that long!)

Amazingly, that night there was no more water in his ears. When we asked him where acorns went, he pointed to his nose multiple times, but he finally started answering that they belonged on the ground. I've always known to watch what he puts in his mouth, since he puts everything in his mouth, but his dang nose wasn't even on my radar! I took a picture of the little thing he stuck up his nose...I'm saving it for some future embarrassing moment. Turns out, it's the size of the body of a thumb tack!