Your Questions Answered!

I had several questions on the comments section of the last couple of posts, so I thought I would answer them!

1. What's Esias eating in the video?
We are taking a few liberties in the feeding department...we were recommended to wait to feed anything other than yogurt-thick solids until we have another swallow study in about 4 months. But my instincts are telling me that that is too long to wait to introduce a child to self-feeding and chewing and the whole nine. So I experimented with some different textures and found that small pieces of regular bread are something he can pick up and get into his mouth, where he can work on chewing them and feeling the texture in his mouth. Now, if you look closely, you will notice that most of those bread pieces end up on his bib or in his high chair seat and not his mouth! But this is for practice and not for nutrition (that's what the tube is for) so it's ok! I have yet to ok this method with our Occupational Therapist...I just figured I am his momma, and I know him best.

2. Do you let Eden wear whatever she wants to school?
I let both the girls pick out their outfits for school (unless Elly asks me to do it, which she sometimes does) and I really don't care if it matches or looks ridiculous as long as it fits this criterion: it has to be appropriate- meaning temperature, size, or amount of body coverage! There are times an outfit gets the disapprove rating- usually it's because Eden comes out in shorts or a skirt when it's 20 below. Then we send her back in to try again. But most of the time, she does great. Her outfit creations are just part of how she expresses herself!

3. What do you do when Elly throws up at Fareway? :)
Well Andrea, here you go!
I had kept Elly home from preschool Monday because she has a chest cold and that paired with asthma just sounds terrible. She also has a tendency to throw up when she accumulates phlegm in her chest, so basically I knew it was a matter of time! We stayed home all day until we had to get Eden at school. At that point, with all three of my children already strapped in and bundled, I thought, I might as well go to Fareway and get just enough to get us through tonight and tomorrow. So off we went. I got as far as the produce and Elly started to cough- she said, "I think I am going to throw up..." as I am perusing the grape tomatoes. I tell her to hold it in, but she just can't...so I run around to the cart and grab one of Esias' diapers out of the bag and hold it up to catch the puke. In the meantime, Eden is pacing around us saying, "THIS IS EMBARRASSING!" Elly goes through two diapers and one snack baggy but we contain it all without really making much of a scene - in fact one guy on a cell phone didn't notice at all and kept sort of hovering like 'get outta my way, i gotta get some grape tomatoes'. Well, there ya go buddy :)

As soon as she was done, she feels fine. She started singing I think. I contemplated finishing the shopping trip or abandoning cart. I landed on buying what I already had in my cart-- bananas, salad mix, and those ever-important grape tomatoes! So we did, and I sent an email to Dan with the remainder of the list!