Tom and I got out this evening for a date. There was a 'parent's night out' sponsored by the day care. The kids can stay until later and the girls who run it feed the kids dinner, play with them and let them watch a movie. The kids to an art project also. Both Rita and Grace love to get to stay when they have one of these nights. We haven't taken advantage of one for months. It was a joy for Mom and Dad to get out tonight. Rita loved getting to go back to her old school and see her favorite teacher, who was one of the people running the event tonight. One of the teachers from Gracie's classroom was also there so there was someone familiar with her new diet and how it works!
We are often nervous leaving the girls for the parent's night out. Grace has a bad track record of having seizures during these nights. Twice we have been called from a restaurant that Grace was having a seizure and the ambulance was on the way. We were thrilled to have a 'normal' end ot our eveing and no ambulance runs! We arrived to hear that Grace was running around and reeking havoc like all healthy three year olds! The teachers were a bit amazed at how well she was running and playing.
The downside was that Grace did not eat very well for everyone today. She had an incomplete breakfast and then she didn't finish all of her lunch or dinner. It's tough to ask others to force feed her. If she is at home and doeasn't eat, we convert her exchanges into something liquid and use a sryinge to basically force feed her. When she refused to eat, we give her whole milk, heavy cream and melted butter or oil on the side. She doesn't really like it but it gets some much needed calories into her! I am hoping that today was just one of her not-eating days!
All the best!
Marie, Tom, Rita and Gracie
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