Eating? What's eating?

Please no more! You eat it mom.

Gag!

Well I like to hold on to the spoon, just don't make me eat it.

What? You mean the rice cereal residue is on my hand!

So Dr. Swaboda said that we should try solids with Jonas and go get another swallow study done. So we thought that we should try before we do the swallow study because we didn't want his first experience to be at the hospital. Well, he did not like the food. He tries super hard to get that out of his mouth. We always had the suction right there in case he choked, but never needed to use it because I don't think any got down his throat.
We went to the swallow study this week and weren't to surprised with the results. Of course he would try his hardest to not allow anything down his throat. They finally had to stick a syringe down just to see what he would do. He did not like it. He knows that he can't handle having things go down his throat and so he protects himself. The conclusion came to no solids, but he can taste things like with his binkie or dipping a spoon. I am happy with that. I knew the reality going in and so I wasn't so devastated going out. Jonas will get to taste the good things in life. Thats all that is important anyway. If you swallow you just get fat. i love him and am so proud of him. So on to the tasting!!