Potty Training Update

NOTE: Contains material that may be unsuitable for adults with weak stomachs! So we took Noah to the dr. a couple of weeks ago and talked about his seeming inability to feel the need to poop and to control when he pees. He suggested a specialist, a pediatric gastroenterologist. So off we went, and when he did the exam on Noah he said Noah was chronically constipated. I never would have guessed, because believe me, he poops every day. But it turns out that he's not pushing out the poo (low muscle tone) and it's just kind of leaking out (sorry this is so gross). Anyway, he's got a (please excuse the pun) backlog in there. So this past weekend was the colon cleanse, he took large doses of Miralax and Senecot. And for the next month he takes a low dose at night. And guess what. Yesterday on his own he twice stood up and peed in the potty! He has almost never done that before. And he doesn't seem to need warm water to make him go anymore! All that fullness in his belly was interfering with his ability to make himself go. He peed again the "big boy way" this morning! Hallelujah, maybe after 5 years of potty training we are finally getting somewhere!

Happy Anniversary to me (and to Scott)

Believe it or not, it's been fifteen years since we tied the knot. My gift to Scott was very unromantic, but much needed, I started cleaning the garage out (I would have liked to have finished but it's about a 3 day job, at least!) I found that more and more stinky shoes were collecting on our small shelf in the back hall, so I bought a large shelf and put it in the garage and now most of the shoes are there. I also de-cobwebbed about 1/4 of the walls and ceilings and completely swept/cleaned the area closest to the door. And I put away a bunch of stuff from the FINDS group. Now I just have to clean the tool shelves, gardening supplies, sports equipment, and the rest of the walls and floor. Thankfully it's cooled off quite a bit here so at least it's not as sweaty a job as it could be.

Scott's much more romantic gift to me was a beautiful bouquet of flowers and a gift card for Borders (I can't wait to go buy some books!) We're planning on going out to dinner as soon as we get a free night! With scouts and young women and piano and guitar and work for both of us, we're pretty packed.

One more thing, you may have heard of a lot of flooding in Chicagoland, but we escaped any problems, thanks to our new sump pump and back-up sump pump. (It only takes one good basement flood to make you buy a back-up!) This has been the wettest September in about 200 years, but this week things are supposed to dry out a bit.