*there's week 2 of the appetite stimulant

It's working! Will was weighed Monday which marks 10 days of him taking the new medicine. He was 22 lbs exactly. Will has been heavier than this before but as I mentioned recently he lost some weight due to him being sick for awhile. He also doesn't eat as well when we're traveling. New environments are so much fun that eating is no longer his first priority.

He has continued to finish off quantities of food that are not typical of him. Sometimes it is only 8-10 bites of something but in the past that would have been 3-4 bites. Not an average 2 year old yet but it is more than double for him! Just seeing him eat ALL of something, no matter how small is so new to us. A whole cereal bar. A whole chicken tenderloin. Replenishing a finished cup of milk. Emptying a cup of snacks in the car.

The nurses at day care say that he eats during meals AND if anyone is eating near him at any other time of day he asks for their food too!

He has become a scavenger.

And we're only at stage one of the dosage.

Insert standing ovation {right here}.

Other notable things about Will's eating:

*he spoons up the salsa at Mexican restaurants as if it were soup
*he loves pizza and pasta and peppers as much as his Daddy
*he likes foods that his Mommy only hopes to like one day. Pesto flavored hummus for example. I mean, I'll eat pesto but I don't really like it.
*he will help salvage a meal that isn't going well by cooperating when his mother resorts to scooping peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon
*he finished his I-need-Ranch-dressing-on-everything phase over the summer, thank goodness
*he calls yogurt "Dora"
*he has no idea that the Dora he eats is so rich and delicious because I stir Carnation Instant Breakfast into it to give it more calories.
*he doesn't really care much for sweets or ice cream (so far)

 

 

 

Will eating recorded by Kristine Neeley Photography in Franklin, TN