What an amazing weekend with Gracie! She sat for me for 40 minutes on Friday nite and ate nutella by consistently putting it on her thumb and putting her thumb in her mouth! Then Saturday she declined the bottle at one point and asked for the nutella. Then today, TWICE, she wouldn NOT take the bottle and took me by the hand to the where she knew the nutella was.
Before we put her to bed tonite I was going to give her a bottle but Chris had the nutella out and she saw it and wanted it. So I sat her on my lap and watched her clean the plate off with her thumb. I watched as she did this again and again till it was mostly gone! I was awestruck. She has come SO FAR from where she was when we got her almost a year ago! Even in the 6 months since we started working with the therapists at Advent, she has come so far. She actually looks AT me now and I so wish I knew what was going on in her little head.
Nutella. Who knew? It's a big start on the long road ahead and we still have far to go, but it's a START!
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