Maybe someday I wont have to put a little heart over his face anymore...I wish you could all see how excited he is in this picture! He really is the best picture taker of all the kids. You just pull out the camera and he starts to ham it up.
Had some hot chocolate with marshmallows and graham crackers after about an hour in the snow. YOLO right? Of course, it could be YOLOwithdiabetes, but it's tasty:)
The other day a friend of ours was over and he made this comment, "J's so different than when you got him. He's......happy." That pretty much sums it up. I'm not going to say life's all roses now because it isn't. He can still be super difficult, but it is fun to see him acting more like a typical child of his age! He gets excited about things now. He's happy a lot of the time. I attribute it to stability.
I see so many studies being done on how harmful all different things are in parenting: co-sleeping, spanking, cry it out, baby wearing, etc. I've literally seen every different type of parenting called harmful. But when you step back from the bickering it's pretty simple: kids need stability. When a kid knows that there is consistency in life and that there are (the same) people who will always be there to pick him up and dust him off, odds are he will turn out to be a fine upstanding citizen even if you (insert controversial parenting topic here). J has been through so much but he is a prime example of the resiliency of children.
