today i thanked Cash for doing something i asked him to do. his response: "it's my pleasure."

cash has been doing such an awesome job with pooping. Dr. G warned us that it may take some time for his brain and body to reconnect but since he's been cleaned out (i think we got the last of the old stinkies out late last week) he's had no accidents. he will tell us when he has to poop and everything is in the potty! yay Cash!

Touch a Truck

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today we went to Touch a Truck. It was freezing cold and windy but the boys had a good time. I think the weather caught everyone off guard, especially since it was 80 all week. The boys got to see/touch/sit in a tow truck, cement truck, ambulance, fire trucks, ladder truck, first responder truck, swat truck, big rig tow truck, dump truck, tractor, and more. But i think their favorite was some guy's Ford Ranger. i'm not even sure he was part of Touch a Truck. but they jumped in his little pick up and messed everything up! I was laughing because there were so many kids and they were just going to town in the cabs of these trucks/vehicles and i get frustrated when someone moves my rearview mirror! i can't imagine what happens when they fire up the tow truck the next time!
Cash was really excited about the fire trucks and enjoyed looking through the firemans' maps.
eventually we got too cold to stick around any longer and took Cooper home for a nap.

more brothers for Cash

last weekend Cash told me that he'd like more brothers and that these can be their names:

1. Donald
2. Train rider
3. Baby Crawler
4. Sister

Cooper is starting to put words together. mostly "hi Cash" or "bye daddy".
he is doing a lot of the things i remember Cash doing as a little boy like in the morning once i strap his shoes on him he makes a b-line for the door and says, "bye".
he climbs on anything. up on chairs, stools, into the car.
this morning he must have reached up onto the stove and tuned one of the knobs because we got home from work and the house was filled with gas - and smelled terrible. I got home and Chandler and the boys were just playing around. Chandler goes, "something stinks". Yeah, that's gas. Lets get out of here. we opened doors and windows, packed up dinner and spent the evening at the park. It was a nice excuse but it wasn't as warm tonight as it has been the rest of the week.
I fear we are going to have to give Cooper a haircut this weekend. he is getting awfully scraggly. and people are calling him a girl much too often. No one EVER called Cash a girl. Cooper gets called a "her", "she", "girl" at least once every couple of months. Just last weekend it happend twice. in one weekend! and he was dressed in obvious boy clothes. blues and more blue. he is beautiful though.

full of it

Cash has been having some real problems lately but i think we are on the mend - so now i can talk about it.
For the past few months, longer than I would like to admit, he has been having very intense problems with his tummy. He just wouldn't poop. Cash had been a perfect potty user up until that point. I dont think he ever had an accident since he started wearing underpants. It started with a little constipation probably because he didn't have enough water one day or maybe he didn't want to stop what he was doing to go to the bathroom. However it happened he got constipated, it was hard to poop and it hurt. When it finally did come out it caused some small tears in his bottom which cause him a lot of pain with subsequent poops. So he just decided to stop. stop pooping altogether. he would squeeze his bottom together so hard that he wouldn't let the poop come out. this was causing everyone a lot of stress. Cash was upset and cranky a lot of the time. He was so full of it nothing made him happy. Mommy and Daddy were getting increasingly frustrated that he wouldn't just unclench his butt and go! so after a couple very serious days of unhappiness we went to see the doctor. He was going up to 7 days without anything so we had to get some professional help. Especially after an enema didn't work. Cash overpowered an enema! Dr. Goebel was great. She told us he had an impacted bowel and encopresis (you can google it but just know that we were changing underpants up to 4 times a day) and gave us some ways to help Cash through this. Almost immediately his attitude changed. i think just hearing Dr. Goebel say that it was ok made him feel better (i'm sure mommy freaking out didn't help him). So we started Cash on 2 Miralax treatments per day (this is a lot!) and after 2 days we had to give him an enema. WOW. I will just say this: he was seriously backed up. And now that the blockage has been moved and the softener is working he is going a lot. but unfortunately his bowel is a little "untrained" so he's having a lot of accidents. we need to figure out what the right amount of Miralax is for him and make sure we encourage him to use the potty. he'll start doing better. he's already doing better.

Pirate Cash

If Cash isn't careful he's gonna get his wish of becoming a real pirate with a real hook. He loves to play sword fighting and most of the time it isn't a battle i'm willing to fight with him. He takes the butter knives out of the drawer and runs around with them. last night he got his hands on one of the serrated knives from the dishwasher and almost immediately cut his hand - pretty badly. It pretty much ruined the rest of his night and all he wanted to do was snuggle with me on the couch while i applied pressure to his wound. Unfortunately the cut is in a very uncomfortable place and will surely get bumped and snagged all day today. He refused to put a bandaid on it. I did hear him tell his daddy that we can't play with swords anymore. so at least he learned his lesson. for today.