The Magic Penny

Maren swallowed a penny (accidentally!) this summer. Thank goodness I'm married to Michael. I figured we needed to take her to the hospital but he said we just had to search through her poop. Oh, whew. And, luckily for me again, Michael has no aversion to doing it. It took four days to make its trip out (which worried me a bit and I was getting ready to call the dr.) and we had a nice little family celebration about it. I think Michael enjoyed donning his work gloves and digging through the poo a little too much. I don't think Maren will be doing that again any time soon. As a side note, we've been parents for nearly seven years now and this is the FIRST item swallowed. Not bad, eh?

You've always wanted to see something like this, haven't you? Truthfully, it's pretty cool...lots of neat colors. So interesting what goes on inside our bodies.