What is it with Federal Holiday's?

Everyone knows what this is, right? Well, to my baby boy it is something you put in your mouth and accidently swallow! Yes, that's right, Carter swallowed a paperclip yesterday and I spent my evening in the ER to make sure it wasn't stuck. It wasn't (thank goodness) and the ER trip was pretty quick (only about 1 1/2 hours, thank you pediatric ER at Howard County!) and we were sent home to go to bed.

At about 3:30pm Carter told us he ate some fuzz (really the paperclip) and he could feel it in his throat. A little while later he told Nick that the "fly" had come out. We think he coughed the paperclip up (not too sure the story from Carter is a little fuzzy, no pun intended). A few hours later he had a paperclip in his mouth and Nick saw him with it (made him take it out of course) and this is when we found out that it was in fact a paperclip he had swallowed earlier (it was now 8pm). We had some neighbors over for a BBQ (in the rain) and our next door neighbor is a surgeon (how convienent, a belly surgeon at that) and he told us we should take him in to get checked. We went, they took a picture (x-ray) and the paperclip was no where to be found. So, either it already had passed through his stomach or it wasn't in there anymore. Anyway we are grateful our trip to the ER was short and uneventful (if you can call getting a ride on a hospital bed and seeing your insides uneventful to a 3 year old!) and we are home today getting ready to go to gym!