My favorite trick

I'm not sick, but this is the 3rd or so time this year I have lost my voice. It tends to happen from time to time but has happened more this year, probably due to dry air, more pollution and having to use a big voice everyday with the little ones. When it happened last fall, I taught the kids the expression 'I have a frog in my throat', and they remembered it for this time and said things like "teacher? frog in?" and of course I said yes.
They like to ask me how, and I've made up all kinds of things but my favorite has been for this past week. It has been exceptionally cold and windy, so I told them that frogs, since they can jump high, sometimes jump *too* high and get caught in the wind. I was standing outside singing (like I do), and a frog fell from the wind into my mouth and I've been unable to cough it out. Kids are gullible, so as long as I nod my head enough they tend to believe me, but my favorite part is giving them tangible evidence. I have always had pretty big tonsils, the kind that make nurses go "oh wow!" during routine checkups and they are palpable from the outside of my throat. So, I have the kids put their hands (one at a time please) over my tonsils and if I swallow, it feels kind of like a frog breathing or jumping or something. They all look at me with wonder after they feel it and often they'll go get their friends from out of the room to feel too.
It makes my day, and I'll giggle for years about it. I hope they tell their parents.