Day Eighteenish: Water and SpongeBob

I left my laptop at home this week so I wrote my entries on a drawing pad my sister brought and she started one finger typing them into her phone. It made for a pretty difficult way to record what was going on and eventually we gave up. I'm not sure which day this scrawl is from but think it was on Wednesday so I'm calling it day Eighteenish.

Session One: It was decided to change ZZ's drink to water since he was not taking the formula well and water is something he already takes (sips anyway). Then the speech therapist would work on drinking formula until he again was ready for it to go on the menu. I also mentioned again that he can drink from an open cup. For the feeding session ZZ was playing with the bulldozer and didn't choose or need a movie. He was very into his own story of Fieval and Papa. (He watched An American Tale and Fieval Goes West on the way to and from Dallas last week-end.) He had them fixing, climbing, driving and falling off the bulldozer in highly dramatic fashion. He took his bites and drink with a little bit of playing and goofing off with the drinks. At one point he pulled is shirt to his mouth ad I think he was spitting out his water into it but he had spilled on his shirt earlier and I couldn't tell for sure, sneaky kid! All in all it was a good session. OT went well. During ST he took 3 oz of Pediasure from an open cup!

Session Two: ZZ picked out a toy that you put balls in the top. Knowing that it was below his age level and would probably not sustain his interest long enough, I flipped through the DVD case with ZZ to choose something we hadn't seen over and over. Although I tried to flip past it quickly, he spotted SpongeBob...Nooooo! Needless to say, our session went great! He was completely mezmorized by the DVD and took his bites and drinks in robot form. I tried my best to be playful and engaging but my input wasn't necessary.

Afternoon Sessions: Thankfully SpongeBob was a one time choice. For the afternoon session Fieval and Papa stories carried the day. Water is going down with much less trouble and we are back to progressing with the food intake. The postive of having trouble with drinking the formula is that suddenly taking bites of food isn't so bad, so in some ways it was helpful to introduce something ZZ liked less than eating.