Your eczema has flared up recently and while I kept it at bay for a while using coconut oil and lavender, it got the point I needed to use Cortisone. I also decided to start giving you and Charlie (also an eczema sufferer) a probiotic to help your skin, too. I've given you both a probiotic before but it was in powder form. This new one is a pill and I was curious as to how you'd react to swallowing a pill. Per the instructions of the Mom Handbook (pg. 482, in case you were curious), I stirred the pill into a cup of applesauce and told you to swallow each bite without chewing. That first day you went through the whole cup of applesauce and still had the pill rolling around in your mouth. We gave up, you chewed it up, and we moved on with life. The next day we tried the applesauce again and it was a success. The day after that you only needed a sip of water to swallow the pill after you (dramatically - shock!) declared "Eating applesauce makes me feel like a BABY! I can swallow pills with just water from now on so PUH-LEASE don't make me eat that APPLEsauce again!" Point taken ... but whatever. Applesauce is awesome.
You were dancing around the living room to Pandora the other night and Daddy and I were sitting on the couch watching you. After your song ended, you gave a big dramatic bow and Daddy motioned for you to come sit in his lap. He held you tight, brushed the hair out of your face, smiled a big smile, and sweetly said "Babydoll, I could watch you dance forever." You looked up at Daddy, hugged him back, returned the smile ... and shouted "OKAY!" as you jumped up from his lap and proceeded to dance for the next 173 songs before we made you go to bed. Not quite what Daddy meant (or the response he had intended) when he said that he could watch you forever, but c'est la vie. Such is the life with a seven-year-old girl.
School has been going along really smoothly for the most part. I'm already thinking about August and what I'd like to do differently, so I often have to remind myself to reign it in and focus on the here and now. You still really like math but you still insist upon losing your ever-loving noodle when you get a problem wrong. I've had to say "Go run around outside for 10 minutes and then we'll try again" or "Go to your room and pitch an enormous fit for five minutes and then we'll try again" a lot this month. I can't say that it's a foolproof method for school success but it works for us. And I might just add "Angry P.E." as a subject on your report card this semester.
Hugs and smooches,
Mommy & Daddy
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