Self-Feeding or Clean Carpets?
Greetings to everyone.
It's been a while since I've posted something. We've been busy, but we've actually been enjoying a few weeks of a settled life. Like the many mumbling mice in the moonlight, these past few weeks have been mighty nice (apologies to Dr. Seuss).
Rebecca tried something earlier this week which has gone a long way to revolutionizing feeding Xavier. After strapping him into his car seat, she handed over a bottle to him. She then got into the car and drove home. Xavier drank the whole bottle during the ride. No one held the bottle for him. We have put that to use quite a lot since!
He still has not learned to tilt his head back, so the car seat is the only place to date he can drink the bottle under his own strength. He has, on occasion, stood at Rebecca's or my feet as we held a bottle and drank from it like a hamster. That's always amusing.
We've had to make a decision. Do we want to work with Xavier to be a self-feeder or do we want clean carpets and flooring? It was a not as difficult a choice to make as I thought (I thought I would have to really fight my nature more). We decided carpet cleaning is cheap, so we set a budget line item for it. Xavier now roams the halls, armed sometimes with his bottle.