SMILE

How could you not smile after enjoying/wearing a Thin Mint cookie?



















Cooking with Ma'am is so much fun!


That is what has been making our way back into our home:) The lovely happy smile of Lacy's! I thought one more final recovery update might be nice. Lacy is now all recovered from her tests and the nasty bug. Although Eddy did catch it and worked from home almost all week! However, even for him, the worst is over and we are so thankful to welcome lots of smiles everyday. We do not talk to Lacy about the tests, nor show her pictures as the whole point of the medicine she received was to make her memory fuzzy-to help forget it. I hope the medicine did it's job.

She has not forgotten all the calming exercises I attempted to teach her though! The other night I went to pull out a cookie sheet of garlic bread from the oven, when I discovered the padding had grown too thin on my mitt because I got a MASSIVE burn! I screamed in shock and pain, to which Lacy comes running from across the room and yells, "Uh-oh! BEEVE Mommy, JUST BEEVE!!"(breath, just breath!!) Just like I tell her! I instantly started laughing and attempted to breath for her, to which she then asks "You ok mommy?" Sweet girl.

It took Lacy quite a while to lose her anxiety over going to the bathroom, and here and there when needing to go, she will pop out a 'mommy up please!!!', but I am able to redirect and all is well. But, do to all the pain, she has spaced out the frequency of potty trips-dreading it. That is definitely welcomed! So nice to have my independent potty girl back. I also put a little potty in her room. This has worked out great. During quiet time if she has to go, she knows she can slide off and use the potty and then go back up on her bed-and that's just what she does! Also, sometimes in the morning when she wakes up she will do the same. Go, then hop back in bed until mommy comes to get her. That amazes me.

We have seriously been ON THE GO since we recovered! Getting ready for bump2 and celebrating our wedding anniversary, but it all happened because we have been restored!