Today has been a really great day! My little one slept good through the night and didn’t wake up much asking for her bottle. She did ask me when we were leaving this place, first thing this morning, and I could tell she’s more than ready to come home. In fact, she’s mentioned leaving multiple times throughout the day, and I’m as ready as she is. We actually stayed in bed much later today, only getting up to brush our teeth and takes meds, and snuggling back under the blankets a while longer. I still woke up every 30min-1hr during the night, but I’m sure I’ll be able to sleep longer when I get home, but my body feels so much better! I’ve only spent one night on that GeoMatt and it was unbelievably comfortable and helped reduced the pain in my body so significantly, I felt like a new person when I got up this morning! Wow! I definitely feel like I can handle two more weeks up here since I have that thing to sleep on.

This morning our first feeding therapy started out with resistance, she immediately was being defiant and I even had to warn her and then take away the movie we had on in therapy before I got her to take a bite (this is part of the protocol up here). At the end of the meal she was gagging and voiced that she was going to puke, we left (after the beeper went off) and went for a walk and then to our room. Shortly after we went downstairs to play and then our sweetest friends showed up to visit, Ms. Scharlee, Ms. Emily & her boys!! The kids played outside on the playground while we visited. It was so great to see a friend and hug someone, the past month has been kind of isolating here.

Yesterday lil’ Posie was wanting me to paint her nails but I told her I didn’t bring any polish here with us. Nobody knew that except us, yet Ms. Scharlee surprised her with a gift and it was polish for a mani. She was so excited, within 10minutes of Ms. Scharlee leaving, Posie had her nails done, she just couldn’t wait.

I had another friend text me to tell me she’s in Texas and that she may be coming to visit us tomorrow afternoon as well, that is so exciting! Tomorrow will be a busy day all around, therapy at 9, then the playroom with the volunteers, and doing laundry all before lunch and now possibly a visitor! Oh, big bonus, I went to the cafeteria earlier and they had just stocked the vending machine, and so there were two of the chicken salad trays in there like I had last week, so I went ahead and grabbed them both! I’ll have dinner for tonight and tomorrow all planned out! WooHoo!

Several of the ladies up here that I’ve grown accustomed to are leaving. One of the new friends we have that came the same date as us is leaving on Tuesday, another girl is leaving on Thursday, and another one is leaving some other day next week, I think on Tuesday as well. Plus the new girl that came last week (when I said we were getting a new boy) she’s leaving too. There will be a lot of new faces! Posie is taking a nap right now and then we’ll head down to our nap at 3 PM. Then we’ll find something to do, to play, for a bit while we wait for dinner time.

I’m still just so blown away with how great P is dong here. I keep hearing a lot of comments about how amazing she’s doing and equally hearing comments like, “She’s doing too good”, and it is making me kind of nervous about coming home. We’re hoping she’ll throw some shade at me and the therapists this week during therapies so they’ll have a better picture of how to address her when we go home. God is so good! Please pray for Posie!