Dental and Food Update on Yaya

Well we are in continued unbelief at how our Lord is taking care of our girl. I took her to the dentist last week, Pediatric & Adolescent Dentistry, and was floored at what happened. (P.S. LOVE this dentist! Highly Recommend!) Yaya let the hygienist pick her up and walk back to the tables, she wore a sticker on her shirt (Hello Kitty, of course), she lied down and opened her mouth and got her teeth cleaned, scraped and polished, she got to drink from the water pipette thingy, picked out a rainbow colored bouncey ball in lieu of a green one and then let the dentist count her teeth and put fluoride on them!!???? WHAT! JUST! HAPPENED??? WHO STOLE MY DAUGHTER?!  She was the life of the party and loved it there. But here is the big shocker…her teeth are perfect. Yep, not a single cavity. Look healthy, look great. Oh and she has all of her teeth, none are missing despite the cleft in her gum line. WHAT? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? We have thought we were letting them just rot out of her face for the past year, ummm, nope; they’re good. The other big news was that her teeth line up okay in the back so she doesn’t have any chewing restrictions! She has a cross bite and all but the molars make good contact so there is no reason why she can’t chew anything she wants!! Woo Hoo! I was so on edge while there that I forgot to take pictures of her, I’m not sure she would have liked me doing that anyway. So we came home and she showed off her sticker, bouncey ball, and new Jake and the Neverland Pirates toothbrush and Eden instantly wanted an appointment, as did Noah. Good thing for Eden I made her an appointment for 2 days later (that is a separate post, with pictures, poor Yaya, no pictures.)

Today I taught Yaya how to eat a sandwich; to bite down, hang on and tear it off to the side. It was a peanut butter and Nutella sandwich mind you, but she hasn’t really ever bit down into a food item and eaten it bite by bite. She had a sandwich and a half! I only attempted this because two night before I tore off a bite off a roll from Logan’s Steakhouse and she loved it and ate half the roll, not to mention ALL of Eric’s huge sweet potato and about a quarter of the ice cream brownie we got later! I’m surprised she didn’t hoarf on everything, she ate so much. She loves fruity cheerioes and pancakes with syrup. She is starting to reject some of the canned fruit, since there are so many new flavors out there for her now, she is starting to show a preference. It sorta weird,  now that she is eating solid food she has stopped eating the healthy fruits and veggies and now just eats crap like the rest of us! Welcome to America! No really, we are trying to avoid feeding her garbage like breakfast food all the time, but we had to start with soft breads to get her to eat more solid type things. She is not a big fan of pasta but will eat it. She is a casserole kind of girl though. She still doesn’t like hard crunchy food but she is at least willing to try it now. Just yesterday she ate a goldfish cracker…didn’t like it; and a mini vanilla wafer cookie…also a no go. However, she did chew and swallow both. So she is becoming a little braver. We haven’t really worked in meats yet since that requires a pretty skilled chewer for that. But I hope to introduce some chicken in a couple weeks. She has eaten ground venison and turkey in things, but no chicken off a bone or in a horrible nugget yet. I’m afraid that once she figures out french fries it will become her new favorite, since she is quite fond of condiments. It still takes some creativity to feed her, but it really feels like a miracle was laid upon this house with regards to food.  Starting July 1st we begin potty training…prayers needed please!