A cheese puff...

Hi, well, Lukers has been entertaining graduate cheese puffs. Yes, considered a solid food. Whewsie!

We've actually been testing him over the last month. So, the following video is from last night in speech therapy. Our therapist Jennifer comes over at 6pm in the hopes he'll be somewhat hungry. Problem is, I forgot to tell my new nurse to cut his feeds that day. Oops!

At any rate, I wanted you to see him crunch down on "A" cheese puff. It's quite scary actually. Last week was seriously video worthy as he choked and I had to scoop it out of his mouth. Uggh. I'll spare you the details. The joy of a tube fed kid. For sure!

I will say, Luke is not orally defensive with foods and textures by God's grace for sure. That's a huge deal with a gtube baby. HE LOVES food and we are thankful for it. But, it makes it so hard for us as he wants to try everything we eat. So, we still hide out when eating and we never can sit down together as a family and have dinner. It's just our life.

So, that's our food update. He's just maintaining his cheese puff chewing and sometimes he'll swallow one. But, a few minutes later, I hear a 'crunch' noise. We think he's pooling it in the back of his throat much like he used to do with stage 2 baby food. However, the upside is he's eating 6-7 jars of stage 2 baby food with ZERO problems per day. We've come a long way. This is just another journey for us. Our big agenda is a SIPPY CUP as well. More later on that!

Ok..enjoy. This will scare Lulu. She's very protective over Luke. She's very 'choke' shy with him. So brace yourself Lulu...he did good. Love you, A

Oh, one more thing. All by God's grace and mercy below. Hugs, A