Have I mentioned she has her own bowel issues- that are pretty severe, just not as severe as her brothers.
She had her first colonoscopy when she was one- which showed inflammation, allergic reaction, and other irregular looking stuff (it's been so long I forget all the terms used). Anyway- because she had blood in her stool for almost the first year of her life- and then when she started solid foods-
she literally STOPPED pooping.
So after figuring things out with her, she too has wheat/gluten allergies, dairy allergies, can't have nectarines, apricots and peaches, pears.
And without daily miralax (which is a powder laxative)her bowels don't move. I knew she was going to have some problems this week too.
She hasn't been drinking her mix of it with apple juice the last 2 mornings. It's not as easy on school days. And sure enough- things are not moving.
If you have never had a kid with constipation on any level, well be glad. It's really not fun, it's so sad, and you are so helpless trying to soothe them.
Anyways, so she's home trying to poop (that might be too much information but poop is not a shameful word in our household :)
So she's home and the behaviorist didn't come today- so it's the three of us today!
We've baked cinnamon raisin bread- in the bread machine (Ty insisted). Boy does our house smell GOOD!
They wanted to have a picnic lunch. Sarah even put on special picnic clothes (she had some idea in her head, you know 6 year olds).
They set out a blanket in the front yard and enjoyed our picnic lunch together. It was very nice.
It's a wonderful, warm, but not too warm, sunny fall day. It's been a long time since I've had lunch with these two kiddos, now that Sarah eats lunch at school. And they worked together and agreed on this picnic idea and how to set it up. I love this!
Then after the picnic, I brought out some halloween crafts, glitter paint, and put them on the wood logs out in the front for some crafty time.
Sarah got to work right away.
Ty got very excited over the idea, and started "collecting" things to use for the craft. Then here he comes with the bucket of odds and ends and begins making a pulley system.
He had it set up on the grass to bring a snack from one end to the other. It took a few tries, but he got it. My little engineer!
And then I just paused for a moment.
I wanted to freeze frame this moment- this moment that was so lovely for me.
Sarah sitting on the grass, making different halloween crafts, using noodles, glitter paint, stickers, other items she put together. It was nice.
Then I glanced over to Ty. He was working so hard on this pulley system. Trying to perfect his idea. Trying to make this "thing" he's building do what he had in his mind.
He focused, he concentrated, he studied it, he tried this and tried that.
He didn't give up. He didn't get frustrated. He didn't stop until he was finished and satisfied with what he had built.
Then he called me over and asked me if I wanted a snack.
And coming down this pulley in the front yard was a granola bar hanging from the string- coming closer to me while he manually pulled the pulley around and around.
How cool is that!
This was lovely too. So I was sure to keep this picture of my kids doing these activities, enjoying this lovely fall afternoon in such a peaceful, calm, very satisfied way. This was wonderful to witness.
This one is locked in my memory vault!
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