New Changes for Joy

Physical Development:  Joy has now learned how to transition from tummy to sitting.

Chewing on toys

Displaying skills closer to real crawling

Yummy foot

Feeding Update:  For the past several weeks, Joy has been drinking less formula.  After some discussion with Jennifer Berry and Dr. Weich, we agreed to switch to Vanilla Elecare for a few days just to see if taste made a difference.

Unfortunately, Joy didn't really like it and drank even less.  So on Friday, we switched back to regular elecare and to our surprise, she gulped down 5oz of formula in less than 5 min. On Sat, we left Joy with grandma and again, she drank 5oz before her dinner meal.  On Sunday morning, she drank almost 5oz before breakfast and another 5oz at dinner time. She broke a record by drinking over 15oz in one day.  We hope this trend continues!

We still offer her pureed food in the morning (mixed with miralax) and then again during the dinner meal.  She has been a little better with accepting it now that we are only giving her the stuff we know she likes (chicken and sweet potatoes, corn and butternut squash, winter squash, and banana and pumpkin).

For table foods, she is now a full fledged self eater for chicken, broccoli, mushrooms, oranges, and grapes.  She doesn't seem to like cauliflower, squash (which she used to), green beans, and peppers. She also drinks water on her own too!

Independent Joy

And during those playful fun meals, she's even willing to share her (and mine as well) favorite food!

Fun Times: Joy saw deer for the first time yesterday.  A small herd were eating leaves in our backyard and they ran away after Joy stared them down.  

And she's still having a blast playing with grandma.