A New Day Dawns

This has been a very good week for Little Missy.

She has been an angel and has worked really, really hard to be sweet. It doesn't come naturally, LOL! She loved VBS and would do anything to go. I'm a hard nosed Mama and she knows it. You cross this line and you will find yourself missing out on certain things and she didn't take a chance! She even got to go swimming Thursday and today we went canoeing and then they played in the river. She maintained her positive obedience and sweet happy face even when exhausted. A few times the lower lip started to come out or she said something without thinking and a quick reminder was all that was needed. She helped me with preparing crafts and sewing, etc... She would stand by my sewing machine and wait patiently to clip the threads, or whatever job I had for her.  The cherry on top was that she learned she could go poop in under 5 minutes!! Our long drawn out, cranky coaxing matches on the toilet might actually be a thing of the past. For this entire week she has gone poop in less than 5 minutes and today it was less than 2. She'd still like to play her control games over drinking any kind of fluid, but Steve discovered that she will drink a lot faster standing up when there's nothing to lean on. I find the timer helps, too. Amazing the lengths parents go to get simple, every day tasks completed. With the summer heat finally arriving we've upped the fluid intake requirements and she is honestly more thirsty.

Buster, on the other hand, has been making the poop time long, drawn-out, cranky and miserable times for all of us. He has actually resorted to withholding, but prune juice, mirelax, etc... are tools to keep him going whether he likes it or not. He came close to missing VBS a few times. He is holding on to control by wetting his pants and it's keeping him unhappy. We keep singing, "Trust and Obey for there's no other way, to be happy....."

I have a big toothache and I'm on antibiotics, and pain pills and scheduled for a root canal by an endodondist next week. So all 4 front top teeth are dead or dying. I had not idea it was this bad even for all the pain I've been in.