Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Making Christmas Cookies

Milo helped make Christmas cookies for Santa today.

He wasn't too sure about the feel of the cookie cutter on his hand at first. He kept pulling his hand back but finally got the hang of it...


Sprinkles are lots of fun!!



Waiting is so hard to do...


Finally the finished product!

He didn't try to eat the cookie, probably a good thing because he's allergic to wheat and eggs. If I thought he'd really try to eat it I would have made him some that are allergy free :0) Did you see the pink thing on his trach? That's a cap that totally closes off his trach and makes him breathe the traditional way (though his mouth & nose). We had an incident earlier this week where I gave him a glass of milk (sippy cups are no good anymore) with just a very tiny bit of milk in it, he tried to drink it and the milk poured off his chin straight into his unprotected trach. Needless to say much suctioning occured and I learned to cover the thing with something so I tried the cap and he didn't mind one bit. YEAH that mean we're getting closer....
We're leaving Tuesday morning to go to Grandma & Grandpa's house for Christmas. Yesterday Milo started rolling his suitcase up and down the hall. I think he is ready to go, what do you think?




Hope everyone has a Terrific Christmas!!!

3 comments:

Alicia said...

OMG Janay,

I had to enlarge the picture of the "pink thing on his trach" before I even got to read what you wrote. I said to myself "is that what I think it is?" AWESOME!!! Good for you Milo!

Have a safe trip and a very Merry Christmas!

Alicia

Anonymous said...

those are great pictures!! Looks like everything is going well. HOpe you have a great holiday season!

blesseddaijah said...

hi i found milo on the site of carepages. i am inspired b/c i finally found someone who has the exact same diagnosis or surgery that my daughter had and its great to see his success. i feel i can learn from you and if your welling i would greatly appreciate it. i can be reached through cp:blessedaijah and the infor for contact can be left private option. what a wonderful blessing the Lord has done. way to go to milo and his family.

tannica and daijah