Notes from School!

Thursday was Miss Priss' last day of Mother's Day Out for the year.  Her amazing teacher put together a little scrapbook of projects and pictures.  One of the last pages is a letter from her teacher (she started in January).  Talk about making a Momma's heart proud (and that the constant reiteration of "Yes, Ma'am, please, thank you, no thank you, etc..." is working!)

Dear P*****,

I am so happy that I was able to be your teacher this year.  Your have such a uniqueness about you.  God has given you a joyful heart and a very kind spirit.  You have the courage to be a leader.  I love how you use your manners, and remind us of our Golden Rule.  You are a great example of how to treat others the way you want to be treated.

I have watched you mature, and learn so many things in our five short months.  I am so proud of you.  Thank you for coming to school each day eager to learn something new.  You have captured my heart, and I will never forget you.

Go to your next journey with the same spirit you have shown to me.  May God continue to open your mind so that you may learn and He may also continue to open your heart so you may always love.

Have a wonderful summer!  I will miss you.

Love,
Mrs. B******

Take a toddler who's constantly taking her diaper off, asking us to use the potty or telling us she's gone, one of these

and some of these

and apparently we're potty training!

This is totally Miss Priss led... I was completely prepared to wait until after the baby was here, but she's obviously wanting something else. I'm sitting her on her pink potty or the big one about every 15 minutes, but even still, there's been tee-teeing on the floor right after she gets off the toilet! We aren't making a big deal about accidents, just a HUGE deal when she does go on the potty.

ENT recap

LC and I took P to the ENT on Monday morning. She still has a ton of fluid behind her ear drum that's causing the ear drum to not vibrate like it should. Praise the Lord, her hearing hasn't been affected. The audiologist said she had to get louder with a few lower tones, but P is still hearing on a "normal" level.

The ENT looked into P's ears and made some sound that didn't sound good at all! Both of her ears are STILL infected after 20 days of antibiotics. He thinks that the fluid is never draining out of her ears... that the infection clears up, but the fluid stays there and then gets reinfected after a week or so. He said without a doubt P needed tubes! I'm so thankful he was direct with us.

Miss Priss goes in tomorrow morning for her out patient surgery. The ENT will drain all the gook (totally his words - love him!) from her ears and then insert the tubes. I told LC last night that as gross as it is, I'd love to see all the stuff that was in P's ears!

I'm so glad we were able to see the ENT and schedule surgery so quickly and that Miss P will FINALLY have some relief!

Guess Who....

... was up at 5 AM? That would be Miss Priss!
... is completely exhausted and brought Miss P into bed with us in the hopes she'd go back to sleep? That would be me!
... thought it'd be super cute to pretend to sleep and then pop up and say "hi, hi, hi", "hi Daddy", or do a little growl at Scout? Yep, Miss P again... and while it was super cute, it did not help us go to sleep.
... is still going strong at 6:47 AM? Diddy Doo that's who! I really thought she'd be back in bed at about 6, but clearly that isn't going to happen. I'm sure she'll want to take an early nap right as the cleaning lady gets here or we have to leave to drop off her valentines and strawberries at school... for a party she doesn't even get to attend.

Time Out!

On Tuesday, Miss Priss was placed in time out 2 different times in the span of about 5 minutes. The first offense was for taking all of Scout's food out of his bowl and the second was for playing in his water bowl. She understands when she's in trouble and will actually sit where I place her for the minute (I'm using the 1 minute for every year of a kid's age rule) of time out. Once her time is up, I tell her again why she was in time out, give her a kiss, and tell her I love her.... she kisses me back and then runs off to play!