Wednesday, November 20, 2013

So, what's new?  Oh.  You want to know what's new with Aubrey?  Oh, ok.  Well, let's think about this for a minute...she's growing and I'm trying to keep up.  That about sums it up.

She's still not very interested in the feeding herself thing.  She mushes up some banana or avocado in her hand, but not much makes it to her mouth.  We're still working on the pinching motion it takes to get the food to it's proper destination.  It's become a struggle to get her to take her bottle at all sometimes.  She usually takes it no problem first thing in the morning but will only take a couple of ounces the rest of the day.  The bedtime bottle is a toss up--some nights she sucks the whole thing down and some nights she takes half then pitches a fit and won't take any more. I guess she'd rather have solid food.  I fudge a little and put some of her formula into her oatmeal. :)

The pediatrician told us at the last appointment to work on getting her to take a sippy cup; we can't do that until we find out if she still aspirates on thin liquids.  We finally got a call last week about a swallow test at the hospital: "How does December 3rd sound?"  Considering that's the first available appointment and that if I said no it would probably be months before we got another one, we'll take it!

We're also still working on shifting weight from foot to foot and moving forward so walking will come easier in the future.  I think it frustrates her right now because she knows she can just get wherever she wants to go so much faster if she crawls.

I'm sort of blah about Thanksgiving next week since, naturally, Adam has to work.  He's worked every Thanksgiving since we've known each other (this will be the 8th...I think).  Oh well.  I'll just have to bring him leftovers and we'll have another Thanksgiving the next day.

-Keli