A Victory with Lotion!

Okay, maybe a weird title for this post. It'll make sense to you in a minute, though. Caleb has really bad dry skin. Not like peeling dry, more like a constant, unseen, yet able to feel rash covering his arms, legs and chest/stomach. Every winter so far this has appeared. Putting lotion on him after bath time involves near blood curling screams and cries of "No lotion! No lotion!"
I try to make him laugh and get it over as quickly as possible. Also, I have tried to combat the dry skin issue by constantly having set towels over our radiators, and only having him take a bath about once every 3 days. Still though, the invisible rash remains. Therefore, lotion is still needed. I dread putting lotion on him, he really hates it. Anyway, I was reading a magazine this afternoon that my Mom sent to me. It had an article on how to get kids okay with lotion being put on them. I was pumped! Finally! God sent me help through Family Fun magazine!
All of the ideas they had were great but one especially stuck out to me. It said to give your kid a paintbrush and let them "paint" the lotion all over their body. So, when I stuck him in for his bath, I said "Caleb, when you're done you're going to get to paint lotion allll over your body!" I then showed him the paintbrush and lotion bottle. Let me tell you, I could barely get him to stay in the bath long enough to get soaped and shampood up...he was that excited about the lotion painting. And, my neighbors didn't have to consider even once calling the police over the screams for help coming from my apartment, because there were none! Yahoo! He LOVED it!
Victory!
And boy, can I just add, was my boy a trooper today or what. We did Bible program with Pink Room this morning and then headed back to Casa Alba this afternoon for Purple room's time. Not to mention walking all the way over to office to make photo copies before heading up to CA this morning, then walking back to the office area for lunch, then home, then to the shoe store then to CA then home gain. We walked our butts off today!