Oh little pieces of felt...

For awhile now, Ben has had this fascination with sticking things up his nose (his favorite being his finger).  About a month ago, about an hour after we had finished dinner, Ben sneezed and out flew a mushed but still intact green pea.  From that point on, I knew I had to watch him like a hawk.  Well ok, maybe not like a hawk, but at least closer than I had been.  As time passed, he continued to try to stick things up his nose- crayons especially.  Of course, most things he tried to stick up his nose simply wouldn't fit, or were too long etc.    
I think you know where this story is going by the title of my blog...
So last weekend, after Christmas, we left Ben in Hot Springs with my parents b/c I returned to work full time, and pre-school was closed for Christmas break.  On Monday night, I received a phone call from my mom who reported first that Ben had gone to bed easily and she was watching tv, the norm.  Well she then proceeded to tell me that they also had a fun night because she had to take Ben to the ER.  I immediately freaked out.  So her story went something like this...
Dad had just left to go to work, and she was cooking dinner for her and Ben in the kitchen.  Ben was playing in the living room with random things.  She said about 5 minutes had passed and she didn't hear him making too much noise or talking, and he hadn't come in the kitchen with her (the kitchen is open to the living room so she could see in).  So she went to check on him, and realized he was playing with a set of coasters he had found.  Apparently on the bottom of each coaster, were these little round pieces of black felt (one circle at each corner of the coaster) and he had pulled each piece off.  So like a good mother would do, she thinks of counting the pieces to make sure they were all there.  There were 3 coasters, with 4 corners, so there should have been 12 pieces of felt.  Well there were only 9.  Ben sneezed.  Then she attempted to look up his nose and "thought" she saw something.  So she put him in the car and drove up to the ER (where dad was working.) She didn't even put shoes on him.  She said my dad told her "it wasn't technically an emergency".  lol.  So anyways I guess they weren't too busy, b/c dad took him into a room and layed him down and had a couple of nurses hold him down.  He used some kind of instrument to look up his nose and was able to pull out 1 piece of felt.  He looked for more but said he looked as far up as he couldn't and didn't see any more.  Ben didn't like him looking up his nose with anything either.  He apparently squirmed and cried/screamed the whole time.  My poor baby!  Mom said she didn't know if all the coasters really had all the felt in tact prior to when he started playing with them so we didn't know if he stuck just one up his nose or more than one.  
So mom brought him back home on Tuesday.  Everything was good.  Ben did sneeze a couple times but I didn't think much of it, b/c he does sneeze sometimes.  His nose was also just a tad snotty but I just thought maybe he had another cold or something.  
Well today (wednesday), Robert picked Ben up from his mom's house and apparently he sneezed out ANOTHER piece of felt!!  This probably came as a shock to her because I don't think we had told her about the incident beforehand.  
So now we've accounted for 11 of the 12 felt pieces.  I guess time will tell if the last piece made it up his nose or not...