Behavior

So today was K's leave day. Typically he gets put on the first flight out of the day, but he has 2 days of recurrent a few hours from home.  So he got a rental car to drive down, and didn't have to leave until the afternoon.

Made it nice, as he handled kid duty this morning.  Normally travel days aren't too bad, it typically hits the kids the next day.  Tonight started out great, I was running late from a work meeting and so we did a random dinner sitting on the kitchen floor, and the kids happily got themselves dressed for bed.

But they found 3 pieces of taffy that K left on the counter.  They know about the taffy, we were all together when we bought it on a mini vacation this past weekend.  They were being so good, so I let them know that after we ate our random dinner and they were ready for bed I let them each have a piece of taffy.

10 minutes later we were getting ready to brush our teeth, and the crap hit the fan.  Bug MELTED down.  It turned into a 25 minute, throw herself on the floor kicking and screaming temper tantrum. Bubba and I went forward with getting ready for bed while she screamed and threw stuff around.  She ended up slamming the door to Bubba's room open, so I put her in her room and closed the door. She kept screaming about wanting to brush her teeth, but not wanting to brush her teeth.

It was epic. I have no idea why (other than the damn taffy).  She did finally calm down, brushed her teeth, picked up everything she had thrown around, and then covered up with her weighted blanket to finish calming down.

It still took 30 minutes before all was said and done (he needed to poop, they both needed to get a drink and then be tucked back in, you name it, they needed it).

On a positive note, she did realize she had to poop, and did it; in the toilet.  So i'm holding onto hope that we are on the upswing of her encopresis.  But I've felt this way a million times before, so we shall see.

Fingers crossed that the next 8 days go as smooth as possible.  Lots of changes as Bug starts first grade the day after tomorrow (she's excited!), I go back for my last semester of my MBA next Monday, and Bubba starts preschool (in the school system as a typical peer - same program she did but typical peer versus IEP student) next Tuesday.