Tales From The Toybox

Our son is eating! It’s as if he woke up one morning and thought to himself, “OK, I’ve tortured my poor parents enough. I’ll try eating today.” Seriously! We are almost at that dreaded 10-month mark where we promised our pediatrician we could call in the OT and “Boom!” he’s eating! I’m really upset with myself that we didn’t get before and after videos. Reed and I kept saying we were going to drag the camera out one feeding time so years from now when he’s eating us out of house and home we’d be able to show him a time when he wouldn’t eat anything at all. I really wanted him to see how traumatic mealtime was for both of us. I mean, how much time would it have taken to pull the camera out for a few short minutes? We are so lazy sometimes.

But what matters most is that as I am typing here at my kitchen table I have to look down at my son who is on the floor and pull little pieces of dried spaghetti from last nights dinner out of his mouth. I’m so happy! Not that we have dried spaghetti from last nights dinner all over the floor, but that my son is putting it in his mouth! You have to understand what a HUGE step this is!! He ate an entire jar of baby oatmeal with apples and banana’s this morning. He even ate half a chicken nugget over the weekend. We just pray that he keeps this up and doesn’t revert back to his old fears, but things are definitely looking up.