Pretending to Eat

Owen has picked up the skill of PRETENDING that he's eating. He mimicks the eating motions... food in hand-->food to mouth-->he even grinds his teeth to make the sounds of eating-->sometimes he'll even make the chewing motion as if he's REALLY eating! Clearly, not even so much as a crumb has left the original food item. Such a stinker!!
He only does this when he really doesn't want to eat. Most of the time he'll take any solid food... pasta, corn puffs, pancakes....anything he can get fit in his big ol' fists and have CONTROL of he'll eat. At first he examines it... very visual little man.. and then he tastes it and if it's worthy of his liking... he'll knaw on it until it's moosh.

We practice eating every two hours. I always put him in his high chair... offer him baby food first .. (which is hit and miss for a bite or two)... then we go for the solids....forget about the bottle! And when he's done... he is D-O-N-E!!!

Here's a little video sampling of one of our not so successful feeding sessions...as you can see... he is pretending to eat the corn puff (his favorite).


No matter what....I love that he enjoys feeding time and always has a smile on his face!!

Oh! Owen has a cardiology appt tomorrow... full workup... echo, ekg.. the whole shabang! We were told we would probably be scheduling a cath in Oct some time to do more ballooning. I'm hoping that things are improving and we won't have to do the cath... say a little prayer for Mr. Owen!

Eight Months Already??

HAPPY 8 Months BIG GUY!!

Stats:
Weight: 18lbs
Height: 28" almost!
Head: Large and Beautiful

**All we have to do is smile at you and you show us your CHEESY grin!

** Laughs at pretty much ANYTHING..ANYTIME...ANYWHERE!!

** Rolls from tummy to back.. but NEVER from back to tummy

** Can FINALLY play during tummy time, but just rolls over to his back

**Really wants to push up on hands and knees, but ends up face planting it into the floor :(

**Reaches for EVERYTHING and EVERYONE... then puts everything and everyone in his mouth!

**Loves to sit up and play with toys but only for about 45 min... then it's NAPTIME!

** Loves SLEEP! The 12 hours of sleep at night is never enough... it's usually 2-3 hour long naps during the day as well.

**Doesn't like baby food but LOVES solids...will eat ANYTHING that we have at the current time... this will come in handy when he actually LEARNS how to eat a little better!

**LOVES his therapists... Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and FINALLY Feeding Therapy ... THANK YOU for all your expertise!!

**NOTHING is cooler and more entertaining than BIG SISTER!!

WE LOVE YOU OW-E-O!!!

TOO Much Booty In Da' Pants!

I still can't believe I am actually doing this... but here it goes! This is what I saw on the scale this morning!!! YIKES!!

I'm not sure how I allowed this to happen in the last 8 months since I had Owen... BUT it did and now I am the going to DO something about it! I am going to get back in shape and LOSE it all!! Every Sunday I am going to post my new weight (hopefully LESS) and hope that putting it out there for EVERYONE to see will motivate me!! I am going to sweat ALOT and stop eating all the CRAP that I LOVE even though it make me feel yucky. I can't wait to get healthy and feel better!!