Jack is doing great with toilet training. He is very motivated thanks to Stacy's reward system: he gets to choose a stamp and mark boxes on a chart on the refrigerator; he gets a lollipop or a tiny piece of chocolate; he gets a Playmobil crane for success over a certain period of time. For two weeks while I've been there, he's been 100% dry without a diaper. He tells me when it's time to go to the bathroom. Here's the sweet scene that occurs every day: Jack is sitting on the toilet holding a little plastic figure of Pinocchio's creator/father (Geppetto). He asks if he can hold my hand. We just stay that way for a long time as he tries to poop. On Thursday afternoon as we held those positions, Jack announced rather enthusiastically that he was going to be pooping until night. I said that in that case, I'd better sit down. "Yes," said Jack, "sit down." When Jack is through, he lets me help with the paper work and then he grabs his little seat off the toilet, washes his hands, and heads for the kitchen to choose the stamp and get his chocolate.
The photo shows Jack reading to his friends Emma and Jenny at Marian's beauty salon. We were there to get my hair cut. Emma and Jenny came by so Emma could get used to the hair cut experience. Marian is wonderful. She books us for over an hour, cuts my hair, trims Jack's, and then lets Jack sweep up the hair. We are the only ones in the shop. And she charges only $18.00. She has a customer for life!
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