Potty Training, Pennys for my class and Insulin!!

Yesterday was quit a eventful day, I had my Dr's appointment in Hot Springs only to find out that I'm officially on insulin now! My blood sugars have been almost perfect during the day, but at night, however, that was a different story! I would go to bed with the greatest blood sugar count but only to wake up in the mornings with it shooting past 200! My Dr was very concerned considering my count should have been extremely low after fasting all night. What was happening is my sugar would bottom out while I was sleeping then my liver would produce too much insulin to make up for what I was loosing. SOOOOOO, as of right now, I'm taking 10 units of insulin every night at dinner time. Last night was my first official shot, it took me 10 minutes to finally get the nerve to stick a needle in my stomach but when I finally did, I didn't even feel it! THANK GOD!! Scott couldn't watch, he is very concerned with what is going on, and a little over protective! His first response when I told him I was being put on insulin was "Your doctor doesn't know what she's talking about!!" lol My heart flutters every time he is overbearing with protectiveness to know that he loves me that much!! lol The girls are amazed with mommy giving herself a shot...Nurse Maddie wants to administer the shots herself, I told her once mommy got the hang of it, I would teach her! I figured that would not be a bad thing just in case we ever get in a pickle when daddy is at work! Miss Ashleigh is astonished that mommy doesn't even cry when she gets her shots and reminds me constantly "don't cry mommy, be a big girl and daddy will buy you a toy!" I cant help but snicker every time she says it! (As does the lady's in the lab when I go to get lab work done every week)

Potty Training has been a chore for us with Miss Ash!!! Maddie was so easy, all I did was put big girl panties on her and voila, we were potty trained!! Ash on the other hand, being the little booger that she is, apparently decided she would do this on her own time when she was ready!!! This week has been a big milestone for her, she would pee in the potty, but that was all!! So here I am, about to just throw my hands up in the air and say forget it when she decided to go poo poo in the potty!!! and has been for a whole week now!!! This morning I find out her daddy made a deal with her that if he didn't have to buy anymore pull ups he would buy here a new game for her leapster handheld.......to my surprise, ITS WORKING!!!! Woooo Hooooooo!!!!

Maddie Bears school is doing penny's for my class this week! They have asked that all the students bring as many penny's as they can to donate to unfortunate families!! Maddie, being the little guardian angel she is, hoped right on board for this one! She came home from school yesterday and started searching high and low for every penny she could find in our house! I must say she had a pretty good collection going on! She raided daddy's desk, mommy's piggy bank, her piggy bank and any nook and cranny possible! This morning on the way to school, she opened her backpack and was very pleased with all her findings and announced to me that some little boy or girl would be having dinner tonight because of her and how proud of herself she was!!! It touched my heart so much to see that my little girl was so caring and giving! Yes, I had to reach ever so secretly to my face and wipe a tear! I'm so proud of her and the young lady she has become!!!!! She truly is, as my dad said the day she was born, "our little angel"!!!!