CHOC Day 3: Perfect Ending

We had a pretty great day today! We found out that yesterday Caitlin consumed 2100 calories! Holy Moly! And not a tube feed in sight. I am learning a lot of the feed tricks are actually just changing words around as to not allowing her the control, but making her "think" she has control by giving her choices, instead of just asking "do you want...". Thats one of the biggest things I have learned since being here. The other thing I have learned is to let Caitlin have fun with her food, make whatever concoctions she feels like making and dipping. Dipping is the huge on with Caitlin. She will try it and eat it, if she can dip it in anything dippable lol. Ok on to today....

This morning for breakfast Caitlin ate a whole bowl of fruit loops, 1/8 of a sausage link, a piece of toast with butter and jelly on it, and peanut butter at one point lol. Also 6 oz of carnation instant breakfast chocolate milk!

Snack time she ate 3 carrots that she decided she wanted to dip in applesauce and ranch..gag lol. Some v8 pomegranate blueberry juice. I want to say there was goldfish too, but she ate so much I cant remember lol

Lunch time was fantastic as well, she had a WHOLE hot dog. The entire thing, bread and hotdog, dipped in katchep of course lol. She also had a half a bag of chips, all of her apple juice and even tried corn, which didnt go over very well because, " Mommy forgot to order butter, and have me dip my corn in butter". My bad lol.

PM snack didnt go to well, she has a lot of issues with things with seeds either on it or in it. She had 1/2 a strawberry with a whole bowl of whipped cream, a bag of teddy grahams, and 1 oz of strawberry milk.

Dinner was fantastic tonight as she had cheese pizza, and actually ate the entire personal cheese pizza with the cheese!!!!! No more sauce pizza for her! She piled salad, ranch, and marinara all over her pizza and went to town. She ate about 1/4 of her salad with ranch, and then 5 grapes, and all of her milk.

After dinner, we headed down to radio lollipop! She had an absolute blast down there. They let her DJ with them the entire night, and she was talking to kids on the telephone in their rooms taking requests. It was an amazing experience for her, and it was great to see her smile, laugh and do what she wanted to do not on a schedule. I am so glad we went down there tonight. I have a couple of pictures of just how much fun she had.

About 8:30 we got back to her room, and she said she was hungry again, so out with the snacks! I let her have a gogurt as that used to be her life staple and shes only had 1 in 3 days, so I surprised her and told her since she was doing so amazing eating that she deserved it (yes bedtime snacks were okay'd by the team).

She is now in sleep land where I know she is having some fabulous dreams....perhaps dreams about a future career ;)