Bomb the base

Ellie's latest facial expression of fashion is the "stick your tongue" out look. She just keeps doing that for a spurt and as sudden as she started, she stops doing it and no matter how you engage her, she wont repeat again. She's just so cute when she does it and my my, she does have a nice long tongue.

Other than Ellie's latest nuance, her happy front is punctuated by her difficult bowel movement. Have you experienced going 6 days without bombing the toilet, having that proverbial "plug" right up your alley, cringing your face while seemingly feeling your colon about to give up and burst out? I am sure Ellie felt that, but she could not articulate to us. We gave her whatever we could think of and her doctor's suggestion but just short of having a suppository unceremoniously stuff up "there". You could see her trying hard to push and after failing, she would cry out and that hurt, not just for her. But alas, her colon decided to play ball and she passed her motion yesterday afternoon. How relieved she was and how very happy we were for her. Personally, without taking the dump for a day would kill me. Constipation can be your worst enemy.