Zane's ears

Yesterday the boys were playing in the coverall throwing dirt all over each other. They were covered from head to toe in dirt. Even after swimming all afternoon they were still filthy, especially inside thier ears. Zane's were the worst. They were just black from dirt on the inside. Sometime while they were swimming, Zane layed down on the grass under his towel and went to sleep. I brought him inside after a few minutes and he finished his nap in bed. Anyways, after their showers last night, I cleaned out their ears with baby oil and q-tips. I was teasing Zane about having so much dirt in there that he could grow a garden or hide bugs. Well, just after I finished saying that, I started cleaning in that little flap right above the earhole. He yelled ouch and I looked and realized that I wasn't cleaning dirt, but a tick! YUCK! I quietly told Michael and he got the tweezers and carefully removed the tick. It was in there pretty good and it was in a hard place to get it out. We told the boys no more playing in the coverall and no more sleeping in the grass. We checked the rest of the kids for ticks and found none, thank goodness. Zane has very clean ears now (and they smell good too).