Honey Bear

• After seeing the post about the monkey drinking from a "real" straw, his OT told us it's not such a great idea, which we knew but I guess we just got ahead of ourselves with excitement. She is correct in her reasoning about why to avoid a "real" straw at this point. She suggested a therapy squeeze bottle or "Honey Bear" so that we can control the amount of liquid he takes in. This keeps him from gagging on it, and in turn, completely refusing it like he has done with bottle, which would be devastating for his progress and for any hopes of losing the NG tube in the future. A Honey Bear is just what you think, the plastic bear bottle that honey comes in, with flexible tubing coming out of the top. Luckily, we have wonderful friends who had to use Honey Bear with their son, so Monica & James passed along Connor's bears to us. THANK YOU! We got them today and they were a huge success as you can see below!
• He also had OT and PT today, and although he had not taken his morning nap, he did well. He did a few combat crawling moves for his PT and he ate a lot of green peas for Mrs. Leah. He also drank quite a bit from the squeeze bottle.
• I just bought a new camera, so you may see a lot of pics in the coming weeks as I play around with it. The last photos are of a doe that was in the neighbor's yard today. I took these from upstairs, through a screened window, so they aren't very clear. Poor Lucy wanted to play with her so badly!