Funny noise!

We are done with dinner and Sweet Pea is sitting on my desk while I work on computer/desk/household stuff.  Normal enough night.  She opened up the desk cupboard and is delighting herself with extra credit cards, stamps, rubber bands and all the other treasures that live there.  She must have 30 rubber band "bracelets" on right now with another couple dozen shoved into her dress pocket.

While sitting there, she starts making a horrible sound.  It is an almost growling sound, deep in her throat.  It's a bit like clearing your throat, but louder and more rumbly.  It has a slight resemblance to an eight year old boy trying to practice extended belches.  It's...

Oh.My.Gawd.  I know what it is!

It is the sound of a rubber band wrapped around a toddler's uvula and getting sucked down into her trachea, somehow constricting it and preventing her from breathing!

Spit it out!!!  Give the rubber band to me!  Agghghghghgh!  Sweet Pea, now!  Open your mouth!!!

She giggled and opened her mouth wide and then proceeded to speak plenty clearly.

There was no rubber band in there.

I take my own heart out of my own trachea and stuff it back into my thoracic cavity where it belongs and then apologize to her, explaining she was making a funny noise and I didn't know what it was and thought she was choking on a rubber band.

She just giggled some more and started making the noise again.  I looked at her puzzled and asked what nose that was and how she was making it.  She would just make the noise and giggle, make the noise and giggle, make the noise and giggle, etc.  She got me giggling, too, in between telling her that was a really funny noise.  So now her routine is make the noise, giggle, scream out "funny noise!", make the noise, giggle, scream out "funny noise!", make the noise giggle, scream out "funny noise!", etc.

Just another wild and crazy night at home.  :)