Reed All About It!

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           I thought I better add a more upbeat post. Haha. As mentioned before, we've been practicing with different foods trying to see if we will be having cake for Bricen's birthday parties or something else. If nothing else, it was comical.

The plan was to take something cake like, banana flavored and make it soggy with something like his banana shake or formula. Not much success yet. We've also played around with puddings (thinned with formula, adds calories and the thinner texture helps keep him from gagging.) We recently got permission to try ice cream, make pancakes with the vegetable baby food and then make them soggy with gravies. We've yet to do that but are excited to try. He's also tried oreos and seemed to enjoy it for about two seconds. Strangely enough, lemon meringue pie pudding was a hit. We searched for high calorie, banana flavor pudding. It's a hit. Banana shakes from Steak n Shake are also a hit. The thing about Bricen is that even though we might find something he likes, his interest is limited.  We are still doing three day trials with less tube feeds and attempt to get more oral feeds in. He gets about five ounces of a shake down a day. Until he gets more down we will keep it at three days. Two small achievements that I've noticed the last couple days. We've been "brushing" his tooth. This entails a rubber finger that slips over my finger. He actually lets me get his finger pretty far in without gagging. He also had a little bit of a sucker the other night. I was impressed with how far he put it in his mouth. We are making some progress.

Cheese puffs are still a part of Bricen's diet.

Already tearing up the house. With this face, who can be mad?

This day he noticed he has hair.

I guess, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is enjoyed better when watched up close and personal.

He's been wearing his shoes in prep for his 12 mo pics :0)

Of course, a picture of Bricen sleeping. I can't resist. The red mark on the forehead is because he had fallen asleep and his head was resting on his tray at first. Here is my confession. I locked my son in the car and we had to call the police to get him out. No spare key. He was happy as can be. I was a hot mess fighting tears. Haha.

Love this face.

Naked Baby! He'd just assume be naked than anything.

We went to Wal Mart last week. It was a big trip with a big list and just me and Bricen. He was so well behaved and quite the ham. He started playing "peek a boo". This was the first time he had done this. I looked down and he is sitting in the cart holding his comfort rag up to his forehead and looking up at me from under the rag. The same trip he was allll about giving me lots of wet kisses. I love those wet kisses.