Mystery of the Safety Pop Stick

I may have told you this story already. It's currently one of my favorites.

I didn't have any pictures of the incident, so I'm including some artist renderings (mine). You can click to get a larger size.

Amber gave Audrey a safety pop. She loves lollipops. Anyway, after she'd finished eating it, I noticed she didn't have the stick anymore. I started asking her "Audrey, where's the stick?", to which she'd only respond, "Look Daddy, hole" and point at Ethan's highchair.

I started to get a little panicked that maybe she'd eaten the stick, but she so consistently answered my question with the same response that I thought I'd look into it.



Sure enough, there was a faint glimmer in the tiny hole of the highchair leg. I decided to take it apart.



Mystery solved. Apparently she's be stockpiling junk in there for some time. Up until we moved the high chair into the garage for storage (Ethan now uses a different chair), I'd still catch her slinking over to the highchair to squirrel away some little bit of trash.