Sunday, August 1, 2010

Juice boxes are awesome!!!

We've recently been working with Landon drinking out of a juice box. We used to have to sit with him and hold the box for him and squeeze it to get it to come out. We worked up to closing his mouth around the straw. Then, we worked on telling him to "kiss" the straw to get him to pucker his lips a little to get the sucking in.



He finally caught on and has now learned that he's a big boy and can do it all by himself!!! The next step is getting him drinking from a bigger straw...

When we went to see Chelli this week, she was so excited to see his progress with the straw. She said that it will probably be harder for him to drink from a bigger straw because it requires more lip closer. To help us practice, she gave us a cup with a lid a regular sized straw. With the straw, she gave us this little piece to put into the bottom of the straw so when the liquid is sucked up into the straw, it won't go back down. It will hopefully make it easier for Landon, and he will want to practice more with it. We're always setting new goals for him to accomplish. :)

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