KALISTA FINALLY DRANK FROM A STRAW!!!
It is one of the proudest days as parents of a child who has had issues in the feeding department since the day she was born.
Within the past week or so, we have been working with a medicine dropper and a cup of water. We were giving Kalista little droplets of water in her mouth since it has been so hot here. Only within the past few days did she open her mouth willingly to accept the droplets of water.....then we noticed her start to suck on the dropper...and then...
TA DA...light bulbs went off!!!
Here's how we knew she figured it all out (in a nutshell):
Since it is Wednesday Zoo Day for Kali and Jen, they took to the park with only the zoo cup (since you can get beverage refills) with them. We suppose Kali got parched at the tortoise exhibit because she pointed at the cup (which was filled with water and ice cubes). So Jen gave it to her and then the sky parted....Kali started sucking and drinking the water from the straw.
We have been so worried that she never really got the hang of the suck, breath, swallow sequence because she has been deprived of the feeding experience for so long. Well....we were proven wrong today!
Oooh...side note: The sky must have parted for the tortoise too because he almost escaped from the exhibit by hopping on one of friends to scale over the wall. It was a funny sight to see.
