Better and Better

Healthy mouths for the win!

Another day of improvement! Her white tongue is healing quickly, and what a difference in her appetite! Dr J approved her for purees, so she can have milkshakes and blended foods now. She's still taking tiny amounts but this is incredible progress! She enjoys each tiny meal more than the last, and tonight she ate the most macaroni and cheese I've ever seen her eat--must have been at least a half cup! She's tolerating continuous G-tube feeds so we got to ditch the IV nutrition at last, and changed into civilian clothes after getting her hair washed again today. We attended a folk music show downstairs and she met the guitar player afterwards (she was so happy, I saw her first hops and skips since surgery! ), then enjoyed the squirrels and 6 inch tall green shoots in the sunny Prouty garden, then back to the 10th floor playroom. The missionaries even stopped by and brought her some fun treats. Oh Mrs Ault, how I wish you could have heard her squeals of delight as she opened the box of Valentines from her preschool classmates. She relished every one of those sweet surprises! Thank you so much for sending them!

Hot Air Balloon!

"My Very Own Gumball Machine! I love it!!"

 

She said, "Aaaa! It's so cute!!!!  I can't handle it!"

"The mouse has a candy tail!  That's so silly!"

First tastes of pureed mac and cheese, with strawberry milkshake!  Good stuff.

Playing along with the folk dance performance and meeting the guitarist afterwards.

I just noticed that the tower O' markers  in this photo happens to line up EXACTLY with her IV pole. Crazy accident or fabulous subconscious artistic instincts? 
The world may never know.

Roommate movie night! At the invitation of the other mom, Audrey and our hospital roomie bent the rules a leetle bit and watched a show together in our roommate's bed for a few minutes while I redid the bedding from a chocolate milk spill. Super cute.