HAPPY NEW YEAR

OK I have lots to brag about today about Mr Logan. He has been making such strides this week it is amazing. (I have been crying alot this week with tears of joy) First lets start out with eating by mouth he has finally moved up to stage 2 Gerber Baby Food and is doing fabulous. I feed him three times a day by mouth and he is almost eating 2 jars of food at each feed. So he is averaging about 4-5 jars of food a day. And in between that I am working with him on his finger foods I try to put some on his tray and he just picks it up one by one and throws it on the floor so I have to put it in his mouth in order for him to eat any finger foods, He does like the banana stars and cheese puffs from Gerber so we are sticking with that for now. This morning we went to I-Hop for Breakfast and he ate some of my pancake with syrup and he loved it. It's like something in his brain just went OK I want to eat more by mouth. He does sit with us at the table for dinner every night and he watches us eat so I think that is helping alot. So every time I have something very soft for dinner I will give him some and he always eats it. Now when it comes to drinking by mouth I will give him some juice or Chocolate milk in my cup and he will drink a little bit about a teaspoon at a time anymore than that and he chocks, by doing this he gets about an ounce at each setting. I do put juice in his sippy cup but he still does not know how to suck yet. He will just chew on the soft spout to get the juice to come out.

Next big milestone for Logan is that he is gaining stronger trunk control for more Independence. He is sitting by himself for longer periods of time, yesterday he sat by himself for about 15 minuets before he flopped over. That is the longest he has ever sat at one time his P.T. is going to be very excited when she comes by next week.

Since Logan is doing so good at eating by mouth a Nutritionist from NEIS is coming by the House next Thursday to determine how much formula he will need to have by G-Tube. My Goal is to have this G-Tube out in 2 years and I think I can make that goal happen :)

OK I think I did enough bragging for one day........

We all had a nice New Years we went to my Mom's house and had dinner came home at 9:30pm and went to bed at 10:45pm, I was up till Midnight the day before doing stuff around the house and Richard worked the day before and did not get much sleep so we were very tired last night and could not stay up, So I just DVR'd a couple of channels to watch to bring in the New Year.

We all went out to Breakfast to I-Hop to celebrate the New Year WOOO HOOO :)

Everyone is doing fine and Healthy the Girls go back to school on Monday which I am looking forward to. These last two weeks they have kept me hopping.

I wish everyone a Happy and Prosperous New year.