My Princess Danielle

holding a slice of bread holding a strawberry The last time that we place food into Danielle mouth was 5 years ago. While she was 5 to 7 months old, she had a taste of baby food. But every since then, food has never been in her mouth but mostly the suction catheter to suck out her secretion and phlegm. There a period of time, it create a fear in her that anythings went into her mouth mean will hurt her. She will bite the suction catheter everytime we try insert it into her mouth. Nowadays it doesn't happen anymore as she lose much of her jaw strength. But we do notice that she able to rise her chin that really require much strength to do it.

Over the past few weeks, Danielle responded well to the lesson conduct by her special needs teacher. This week, she did finger printing art and she get to choose which color she want to color the windmill and also some balloons. Throughout the session she was engaged, no complaints and made little approving sounds when the teacher showed her the picture as they went along. Hearing the feedback from Danielle's teacher was very uplifting. The only issue we face for Danielle is the timing to conduct the lesson. Though we may fix the appointment with the teacher, Danielle may just at the last moment change her mood or waking up early in the morning and by the time teacher came she just too tired to attend the lesson.