David is in real underpants

Yep David is wearing real underpants to school today. I am a nervous wreck! He wanted to wear his new toy story undies and he did really well going potty yesterday. I am so hopeful! I am also totally scared he will pee his pants and kids will laugh at him.

On the food front I have been putting protein powder into David's applesauce. He is eating it so far. I also put carrots and cheese whiz in his mashed potatoes last night and he ate them until he found a hunk of carrot. He has been eating a little more than he did last week so that it good. I hope it keeps increasing. The only bad thing has been that giving him feedings at night usually make him pee the bed. Still have to work that out.

Eat Eat Eat

Turkey Tom Square pants
David had a project to help the turkey disguise for Thanksgiving.

So it feels like I am constantly feeding David. Like I am constantly trying to stuff him full of things. I am starting to worry all this is going to back fire and he will start hating eating. Today he has barely ate anything. For his aide at school he ate 10 cheerios and 2 danimal yogurts. I brought him home to eat before speech therapy, and he tried to throw up when he ate half a banana. There is nothing in his belly to throw up. There is no fever. He seems okay now that he gagged a bit. He was suppose to have a tube feeding about 20 minutes ago but I am too worried it will cause another gagging episode. So I am giving him a little while before I try to give him a tube feeding. I feel like screaming! I even made him Sponge bob macaroni and he wouldn't eat it.

I canceled therapy since I am pretty sure he will gag all over the place when they try to eat something. Hopefully it is just his cold and it will pass.

Early Morning

So David is suppose to eat first thing in the morning. Before he gets his tube feeding he is suppose to try and eat food.Sounds simple right.Well David gets on the bus 6:45 am every morning. So to get him awake, feed him food, and feed him his tube feeding sounds difficult. David is kid who loves to sleep in. Today went relatively well. Aman, Adam, David and I all got up at 5:30 to get David awake and eating breakfast. David got up with little protest. I got him in clothes he went potty and got to the table by 5:45. He ate 1/4 cup kix with milk. He also drank about a 1/4 cup v-8 fusion juice. Then at 6:15 Aman fed him tube food. Then David brushed his teeth and got his coat on just in time to get on the bus. It went smoother than I thought it would. I think we only made it through because Aman got up and helped me through it. I am not great at mornings.

Food in Mouth not in G Tube

So I have started logging food that David eats. We are also consulting a dietitian that is in our area. I logged a week and then David and I went to meet with the dietitian so we can talk about how many calories we are aiming for. She said we need to try for 1300 to 1400 a day. David weighs 35.4 this week. I am so stressed out over all this crap. I have to only give him calories that are nutritional calories. No more squeeze its and things that he loves. I am not suppose to give him cakes and cookies unless he eats the other stuff. Sounds like normal kid stuff but David is not the normal kid. He is content to just get fed by his tube. If I take away his zebra cakes I am concerned that he won't eat anything at all. It is so hard to think about his eating and how to change it. I am so completely at my wits end. I want to get him off the tube but I am starting to think we are going to be stuck here for a very very long time! I need help people. If you can think of any fattening up ideas I am all for it. I feel like I have used up all my ideas. The dietitian said that we need to use dry milk in mashed potatoes. We also need to add protein powder to other things. HELP!

Sister in laws are awesome

I got to spend time with Shelby and Abbie today. We had a good time we played, cleaned the car, rode quadracycle, and now we are working on painting. It was suppose to happen before bath time but we had a bit of a dirt fight and needed showers first.

DIRT FIGHT!

He voluntarily painted his own hand!!

Adams Birthday Party

Adam had his 4th birthday party Sunday.
It was a good time.
Here are some photos.
Waiting for the party to start.

All set up.

Grandma Snider

Jess "Minnich"

The Trefz Family

Kaylie (Adams Girlfriend) and her Daddy

Opening Presents

Adam is 4

Today is my little boys 4th Birthday!

I will post some pictures later of the party.

Adam looking tough next to Oscar.

Frog and Giraffe

Woody and Buzz