Things I have done since Sunday to avoid googling “gypsies, purchase of young children”:

-Used a Grover puppet and full-Grover voice to get Alex to cooperate with getting dressed in the morning.
-Have priced-out online the cost of full catcher’s mask/vest to protect from violent kicking during dressing/undressing.
-Told Alex that his old baby tub was a boat and that he could pee over the side of the boat into the “ocean” just to get him to take a bath without screaming throughout the entire thing.
-Let him eat his dinner in our bed every night this week while watching Sesame Street just so that he would FOR THE LOVE OF GOD eat something.
-Made sure he ate his dinner on Chris’ side of the bed, then frantically swept the crumbs and small bits of noodle and pizza that did not make it into Alex’s mouth onto the floor.
-piled the laundry that Chris had dumped onto the bed to be folded back into the laundry basket because that is where Alex eats dinner now. And eating dinner on top of a clean pile of laundry is where I draw the line. For now.
-Made the Grover puppet “pee” on the potty to “get in the mood”.
-Co-created with Chris the hysterical rhyming game where you rhyme silly nonsense words with phrases such as “NO!” and “WANT ONE!” and “GO AWAY DADDY!”