Well, Tyler did finally put on his costume when I told him that he could get candy if he did. He also really liked me putting makeup on him. He's always trying to get into mine.
We went trunk-or-treating at Grandpa Mel's. He didn't catch on to the trick-or-treat part, but got busy with eating the candy once we were done.
Mom is about done with trying to potty train until after Christmas. It's been several weeks now, and he's still not making it to the bathroom. He's started taking care of it himself when he goes in his unders. He'll go in the bathroom and take his underwear off. If it's #2 he'll dump it in the toilet as best he can. Then he gets out a new pair of unders and brings them to me.
Almost always he sneaks away from me to go now. The other day I caught him wet and said, "Did you go potty?" and he said, "Uh huh." When I asked where so I could clean it up, he said, "In my room." Yep. Puddle on the carpet, but he'd closed the door after leaving. Saturday we went all out and gave him tons of pop, and then tried taking him every twenty minutes. That just resulted in a lot of pee all over my house, and one wired kid.
I have just put him in pull-ups today, but once we got home from church he went in the bathroom, took off his pants and pull-up and brought me underwear to put on him. Not sure what I'll do from here.
Drew is still making good progress. His occupational therapist came and worked with him this week, and he really took off with rolling. He will stay on his tummy to play now, cuz he's confident that he's not stuck there, I guess. Hopefully he'll work to crawling before too long.
Not much has changed on the food front. It's time for me to get more serious about daily therapy with him. I'm pretty sure if I mess with the textures of things he'll come around to baby foods. He is definitely interested in more solid types of foods. We run in to problems almost regularly now of him getting food stuck in his esophagus now though. With the narrowing from scar tissue, and the lack of nerve and muscle connection, he gets little pieces of food caught there and has to work to throw it back up. So soft foods would really be better for him.
I haven't increased his stomach anymore, because he's still having a lot of reflux symptoms and I don't want to irritate that anymore. We're at a happy place for now though. Still 4 ounces, 5 times during the day, and then we run the pump at night.
The change that will happen is that Drew is getting the G-tube button tomorrow. He has dilation again, and the surgeon said he'll just change it out while he's in the OR. It is kinda painful, I guess. But Ryan and I are so excited to not have the long tube anymore!!
Drew has still been a little sick since his last flu a few weeks ago. Thankfully he's not really bothered by it. Just some coughing when he sleeps. Poor kid seems to be sick all the time, but hopefully his immune system will get strong and catch up.