Freeze; she's poopy

I have a bad day about once a month.  Really, things are pretty good around here.  Just trying to raise a family.  I get tired in the afternoon like every other mom in the world...sometimes I "push-through" til dinner, and sometimes I collapse on the couch.  Sometimes, I squeeze five appointments or social engagements into one day, and sometimes, by mistake I eat five chocolate chip cookies; but today something happened that has never happened in my five years of raising children.

I had just bathed my precious little June bug, toweled her off, and left her on my bed for one second while I went to get her jammies.  I came back and what I saw made me freeze and call Rich at the top of my lungs.  Poop in the hand. Poop in the mouth.  Poop on the bed.  Poop in the hair.  Poop on the pillow. Poop all over June.  Where do you start?  What do you do?  Rich started yelling to swipe the poop out of her mouth and I was thinking, "I just watched her chew it up and swallow it."  I spouted, "You strip the bed, I'll clean the girl."  So you can imagine.  Bath #2.  A LOT of soap.  I was hoping she'd drink water to flush down the poop mouth.  I squirted toothpaste into her mouth to disinfect and deoderize.  Rich took her out, then she started throwing up poop.  Pajamas #2.  She went to bed pretty easily, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but her breath actually smelled good.

This was not really what I was going to write about, but it just happened tonight, so I had to.  I wanted you to know that your night was better than mine.  What I really wanted to say is that Iva June had a social breakthrough with Charlotte.  For the first time ever she interacted with Charlotte in a really sweet way.  We've been waiting for this moment for six months.  June had gotten home from school; Charlotte was on the back porch hanging out in the sunshine with her book.  June has a little Leapfrog magnetic machine that plays the ABC's.  She presses it and listens to it. 
So, she wanted to show Charlotte...

First, tentatively

Playing ABC's for Char

Both getting excited about it

Lied down next to Charlotte listening to music...was melting my heart!

To top it all off, June has been getting increasingly better with fine motor skills.  I think a combination of school, her new OT and trying new toys have helped to foster this in her.  Plus, she seems ready.  I gave her the letters, which I've never done before and she was putting them in the machine with little help.  It was an A+ kind of day and I could have stayed out on that sunny back porch all afternoon!

 This is a gift.  Even if it came with poopy.

"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows."  James 1:17