We had a long period where he just didn't want to go and got terrible constipated, but since the last constipation was resolved about ten days ago, he has been pooping in his pants around the clock. Seriously. We went to my folks in Nederland for the weekend and he pooped in his pants about thirty times in three days. We ran out of clean underwear for him.
Luckily, on Monday he didn't poop in his pants at school at all (big sigh of relief), but on Tuesday he did again, and on Wednesday, and on Thursday. On Friday they had a field trip and he produced an enormous amount of poop in the bus on the way over to the place. Those teachers must HATE us.
Today in church, one of the primary teachers came to get us. He was covered in poop from toes to belly button. There were two more blow outs at home. Needless to say, we are also doing laundry around the clock.
Have we worked with bribery? Yes, no results.
Have we tried getting angry? Yes, but no results.
Have we put him back in a diaper and make him feel like he was a baby again and wouldn't he rather be a big boy? Yes, it doesn't face him at all.
Have we tried to make him understand that it is gross to poop in your pants? Yes, he completely agrees. "It's bah!". But no results.
Our family doctor has referred us to a child psychologist, but it will be a couple of weeks before we can get in.
This is monty's "I'm trying not to poop face"
Meanwhile...
Leland is doing exams, looking for a job, Anne is working full-time and losing years of her life being the relief society pres, we are preparing to move and the temperature has dropped back to the low 50s and we have gotten completely drenched several times in the last week riding our bikes on the way to and from work or school.
The biggest catch about the moving is that right now we live in a completely furnished house and the house we go to is unfurnished. We only have a limited amount of money to spend. We have rounded up a whole bunch of things from people in church and some from Anne's work, but we still need some things like a WASHER! We wouldn't survive without one in the current circumstances. But we haven't found the Belgian equivelent of Craig's list yet and even if we do find a second-hand washer... How are we going to get it here? We don't have a car anymore and i can hardly put in in the bak of my bakfiets.
We will probably need to rent a truck to pick up all the stuff all over town that we need to bring to our new house, but i would prefer if we only needed to rent it once.
We are moving August 1st. Mail me if you want our address. (for security reason's i don't want to put it on the internet)
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