Sometimes only a Wick-Wick will do.

I was reminded of this episode over the weekend and tried my darndest to find the letter it is referenced in, to no avail. It must be lost forever to the ether. I thought it would be good to set it down in words again.

My wife's family is notorious for making up names and also making up words. This has passed on somewhat to my children. Jensen was once almost as cute as Laney is now. When she was very young she coined the term "wick-wick" for anything that moved like scissors. This included tweezers. In fact at the time we had a set of tweezers that had scissors loops on the end and actually worked like a "wick-wick." Jensen must have been around two or three years old. We had a car seat for her that had some cheap plastic covered foam cushions on it undoubtedly imported from overseas where it cost a total of $1.37 in materials and labor. The plastic had cracked and the foam was exposed.

Lenore was out shopping when Jensen started whimpering and fussing terribly in the back seat of the car. Lenore investigated and found that Jensen had pulled off a little piece of the foam and carefully and completely inserted it up her nose. Kids do these kinds of things all the time. What are they thinking? I'd rather remove stuff from my nose. Anyway in her nearly hysterical state Jensen said, "GET A WICK-WICK!!!!!" Even at her very young age Jensen knew very precisely how she would take care of the situation. Lenore had a very handy Swiss Army knife complete with a small nearly useless "wick-wick." With that tool she was able to extricate the offending piece of sweatshop foam from Jensen's proboscis much to the relief of both daughter and mother.