Grossed Out!

I don't know how I get through my days. I have so many things I'm having to worry about with my kids in order to make sure they learn what they need to AND I have to be constantly aware of situations that make good blogs. Today I was thinking that I hadn't written about Victor in a while. Well, it was perfect timing because he created a blog situation today!

We were standing outside for recess while Victor was bothering my aide. She finally told me, "Ms. L, Victor is not following my directions. Please help." I don't remember ever hearing her ask for help, so I immediately stepped in. "What's going on Victor?" As he turns to me, I see food in his mouth. When I say food in his mouth, imagine chewed up chicken nuggets that cannot be hidden in his mouth because they were overflowing from his mouth and caught in every part of his braces. His lips were also very chapped and he had small pieces of food stuck to the dry parts of his lips. I was witnessing one of the top five grossest things I've ever seen/done. (This ranks with trying to eat cow tongue in Paraguay and also seeing my host mom butcher a cow head for every last piece of meat on it.) I had to turn away when he began speaking to me.

We went around in a circle with questions about why he had to sit out and how he needed to swallow his food. His sitting out had to do with how gross he was being with his food. He just didn't understand. Through all of his questioning, he became unable to swallow the chicken nuggets. He started to gag. I took him to the grass and told him to spit it all out. He acted like he was trying to, but nothing was coming out of his mouth. His face began to turn purple and I began to worry. My voice was now getting tense, "Just spit it all on the ground!" He gagged a few more times before finally spitting it out.

When the food was out of his mouth, he was now about to ask a gazillion more questions about eating his lunch and having to sit out. Even when he was asking questions with an empty mouth, I couldn't take it. I needed him to accept the answers I was giving and leave. He didn't. I was then reminded that my aide sits with him at lunch every day and sees his eating like that every day. In my defense, she also has children and has seen much worse. It was still gross!!