The Nest Half Full: Snowy Day!

We woke up to a dusting of snow that later turned into bonafide snow showers! We started early this morning with feeding therapy. Her tongue thrust is still stubborn. It is so obstinate that her therapist is considering trying to send her to the "tongue thrust guru". The thrust is an issue because it interferes with eating properly. She is swallowing things without chewing or chewing enough which is bad for your esophagus and makes your digestive tract have to work harder to process and break the food down. It doesn't help that she has been sick and off of her food/drink, tubing the formula just enables her to avoid eating which she seems perfectly happy to do.
After therapy we hightailed it to the hospital on post for her nutrition appointment. I left my phone at home so didn't receive the phone call from her dietitian asking if we could come in early. It was a good thing that it was a flexible request. I need a phone that yells before I walk out of the door so I don't forget it. The good news is that she is GAINING WEIGHT! She is 31.2 lbs, so tweaking the formula worked! We are going to leave things the way they are for the time being. If she continues to gain weight too rapidly, we would have to adjust the formula again to make it less calorie dense. We've never had to do that before! Normally the suggested weight gain for a girl her age is 5 grams per day. Since our last visit with the dietitian Mia gained 34 grams per day! She isn't too worried about it, thinking that her body needs to play catch up anyway. She hasn't gained more than 31 in the past week, so she's not steamrolling out of control.
After we were finished with the nutrition appointment we went home to gather her school things and boogied off to preschool. It was still snowing, but the wind had developed quite a nip. When we take the kids to preschool, they have us wait out at the playground. The area that we eventually go into is a commons, so I'm not sure why they have us stand in the cold with our cheeks freezing solid. They open the door at 1230 sharp, but I wish they would make an exception on very cold or very rainy days. It was so cold that they kept them inside for recess, Mia said. I let her run around outside when we got home, just enough that she got some good snowballs in with the boys next door!

Warming up after playing in the snow. Boxes are a favorite perch.