Honey Bear

Yesterday was physical and speech therapy. Of course they were blown away in pt when I set him down and he took off but speech therapy wasn't so grand. We spent the ENTIRE time trying different cups and drinking systems. The problem....none work with the thickened fluid. You would think since thickener is made (and his is the thinnest of the types) that they would also make cups to work with them. No. His speech therapist, being the wonderful woman she is, had previously devised the drinking system you see to the side for kids who won't drink and need to learn to suck in their fluids. You squeeze the bears stomach and the fluid comes out. Fortunately it worked with the thick liquid. We spent the remaining 10 minutes trying to get him to put it in his mouth without much success. She sent it home with me with instructions to get him to put it in his mouth and practice closing his lips around it. He pretty much refused it at lunch and so I tried again at dinner. After he refused it for a bit I decided to turn it around and let him see the bear. He loved it. He played with it's face for a bit then put the straw in his mouth! That was it. That was all he needed. Today he has been great with it. Let's hope that he continues doing great! Now he just needs to learn to keep his lips pressed around it, swallow with it in his mouth and suck it up on his own.

Genetic test tomorrow.