Unexpected result of serving a 3 year old ice cream

We are big ice cream eaters at our house. Mostly some version of Dreyer's Vanilla Bean and bananas and hot fudge, maybe a hot cookie or brownie in a bowl. Not too creative but totally tasty. Conner, however, has branched out of vanilla land. This week we had chocolate...his request.. ice cream twice. But that isn't the entertaining part. The entertaining part comes when you serve chocolate ice cream, on a cone to a three year old. We have had the top scoop fall off, roll down his shirt and on to the floor. We have had the dripping, soggy cone mess. The totally covered face and hands and shirt etc. We had all of these things, in fact, I think they are to be expected and are a perfectly normal part of the learning curve for eating an ice cream cone.


Really, we expected that we would have to clean up after him and that we were probably in for a mess...especially since we have a deprived child who had never had ice cream on a cone BY HIMSELF before this week. I know...no comments on that please :) No, the unexpected part came later, after the clean up...after the goo and sticky was gone. It went something like this...

Steve (real concern in his voice): Honey, what happened to Conner's nose.
Me (freakin' out): What do you mean? - followed by me rushing over to inspect what appeared to be dark build up in Conner's nose
Steve: Did he hurt himself or something? Get a bloody nose?
Me: Conner, are you ok? Did you fall down? Did you get an ouchy? What happened?
Conner: No. I'm ok. (Squirming, let me go you crazy kooks and quit interrupting my play)

The culprit...dried chocolate ice cream build up, neatly hidden up inside each nostril. Must have been saving it for later!

I definitely was not expecting that!