Ear Wax

I am making my Christmas gift list and my friends little boy is into bugs, so in discussing what to get him we talk about a microscope to look at the bugs with. Thinking of microscopes makes me all warm and fuzzy inside because I remember Bayli with her microscope (from Wal-Mart). She loved that thing and looked at everything! We looked at pond water, bugs, hair, etc, etc. One day she made me open my mouth and then proceeded to scrape my cheek. Once the scraping was done I asked what she was doing. She replied that that was how you retrieved DNA and she wanted to look at the double helix under the microscope. I was for sure she would be disappointed when she looked into the Wal-mart microscope and didn't actually see the double helix. She was not as disappointed as I thought, she just said she would have to get a stronger microscope, but it was still cool. Well the incident that really stands out is also kind of gross. Lealan worked seconds at that time so I was always using the microscope with Bayli and pretty much nothing surprised me. A little background to reduce the grossness. Bayli had terrible sinus and allergy trouble that the doctors were just getting under control so her ears would sometimes have some wax in them that would come out on the q-tips. One day she had just gotten out of the shower and was cleaning her ears and the q-tip came out with some wax and she decided she needed to see that under the infamous microscope, but alas we didn't have time because we had to go to town so she put it in a baggie and stuck it in the potholder drawer in the kitchen. Why that drawer I don't know, but that's where it went. About a week later Lealan is needing a potholder and he reaches into the drawer and what does he find, a baggie containing a earwax q-tip! He had the strangest look on his face and he said is this a q-tip with earwax on it. I said (like it was just another day in the neighborhood) yeah Bayli is going to look at under the microscope. He had more questions like why, why is it in this drawer, in the kitchen, etc. etc. But that's Bayli, walks to her own beat. By the way if you ever get the chance, check out earwax under the scope!