There IS Hope!

Despite having gotten up at 3:30am, the kid and I are unusually calm and quiet this morning. (No complaints!)

I just finished giving him an emergency shower due to some horribly messy poop, and to my complete and utter surprise, he SAT DOWN in the tub when I asked him to! He's been standing in the tub for as long as he's been able to, which I never fought. (Recently we even installed an extendable shower head to make the transition from baths to showers easier.) So when it was time for me to wash his feet, I asked him to sit down with the expectation that I would have to force him to do it. He looked at me for a moment, got down to squat, and then plopped himself on his knees. I must have sat there for a good few seconds, doing nothing due to the SHOCK of having my kid actually LISTEN to one of my commands. It was a beautiful moment.

Up until I realized I still had to wash the rest of the poop off of him.