Isabelle Bentley

This kid is a wicked good eater.  She eats everything. We are soooo lucky.

Isabelle is clapping and giving high fives if you ask her too. She also is sitting up by herself form the floor and going from sitting to the floor neatly.  She's also feeding herself a lot. And likes to. Although she haaates holding her bottle. Refuses to do it. She eats the food we are eating and chunky baby food too. Not eating with spoons yet by herself but with hands.  If you help her, she will stand for a few seconds and she loves to jump. MUCH better at putting weight on her feet.  Babbling like crazy. Mostly saying "dada". And... drum roll please... we saw her take 4 crawl "steps" this weekend.  And so it begins.

Fun with Jackson. She's starting to use this thing to eat food like watermelon and bananas.  She's doing really well at eating oatmeal and food mixed together. 

She had two EITs today. One for feeding and one for her regular PT.  Both went well. The food one went GREAT. They said she is doing awesome. She is engaged in eating which some kids with DS aren't. Some are on feeding tubes for life :( Some never outgrow purees (really hoping that doesn't happen). But she ate oatmeal and sweet potatoes and then banana and watermelon through the mesh feeder which is a HUGE deal. She was in the highchair - with support (blankets, pool noodles etc...). She does great with a spoon. All around a very good visit. 

Such a happy girl. Practicing sitting with grandma. She ate 75% of this can! She fell asleep on the utv ride.