2 Brothers Layne

Jonah has been playing with the cousins again and as a result we have some new flavors to add to Jonah's tasted list. Yesterday while spending some quality time with Matt and Maddy we stopped to get a bite to eat and Maddy got some rootbeer. Her mommy put it in her sippy cup and Jonah immediately started begging Maddy for a taste. He pulled some funny faces but he kept asking for more. Then he watched them eat some red licorice and insisted on tasting some. Today the amazing tasting continued. The first video is Jonah eating a Rice Chex Cereal square. Eventually, over the course of about 30 minutes, Jonah did successfully bite, chew, and swallow the equivalent of 1 square of cereal! The second video we took while visiting Nana and Papa. Aunt Tami had a bag of sour gummy worms and we decided to see what Jonah thought of them. We are sooooo excited to finally see some progress in Jonah's feeding therapy!

I thought it was time for an update on Jonah's progress in sensory play. Today was a mile stone in playing with beans. Jonah, as you can see by the pictures, is finally able to tolerate sitting in the beans and he is choosing to touch them with his hands. You'll also notice that as the pictures progress we eventually took Jonah's pants off leaving him in his onesie to play. I wondered whether or not he would tolerate having that much skin exposed to the beans and initially he did pull a few funny faces but in the end he didn't seem to mind! Soon we'll start playing with some rice! The barn you'll see in the video is currently one of Jonah's favorites. Today while he was playing with it the concept of dancing seemed to finally soak in. We've talked a lot about dancing when ever we hear music and he likes it when Mommy holds him and dances around the room. It wasn't until today that he started to move to the music himself! Hope you enjoy!