Wean Day 9

After seeing Clara's weight drop so much, we decided to reconsider giving her fluids during the day and as she goes to bed at night.  I took another look at how another mom chronicled her son's progress and amended her approach for her son to fit how Clara is doing at this point.  So, we are now giving her 60ml (2oz) of formula 4x/day and then 175ml as she goes to bed.  She is drinking enough during the day that combined this makes me feel better about her whole hydration, plus making sure she gets more calories...even if that still isn't nearly enough.  The best part about today was that she started out by drinking milk from a coffee cup.  100% milk is a lot better than water with a tiny tiny bit of milk mixed in.  Guess the coffee cup is cool enough to make anything taste good.

Breakfast: So excited to see her drink milk this morning!  She also ate some of everything I put on her plate.  Waffle, scrambled eggs and banana.  I haven't seen her actually take bites of banana in a long time.  Also very exciting.  She spilled her coffee/milk all over her tray and lost interest in her food after it got cold and soggy.  After re-toasting her waffle, she ate another good few bites. 
Snack: An hour after breakfast she found an empty box of wheat thins and was insisten that we give her some.  I finally got her distracted with Ritz crackers of which she ate a few bites.  She then became fixated on playing with the milk in her coffee cup, playing with it with her hands, holding it to her face and talking into the mug, and drinking it.  Good fun!
Lunch: She basically refused lunch.
Snack:After her nap, she found the wheat thins box again (I should have thrown it away).  Thank goodness she accepted Ritz, then Goldfish.  She then had a whole lot of fun with her different cups playing with, and (hardly) drinking from them.  She tasted the tunafish on a couple of occasions while moving it from the bowl to her fork to the cup to the bowl.  Once she was all done, I actually toasted a waffle and we sat in front of the TV.  She ate a good amount and then announced all done. 
Dinner: Thank goodness for Daddy!  Clara ate none of the breakfast sausage I served her but loved the fusilli again.  She was also more successful at eating them.  She said she was all done and I was pretty depressed about how little she ate today without seeming affected by it.  I'm starting to see her face really slim down though. Daddy said she needed to eat and he would do it.  Wahoo!  3.5 oz of yogurt and 1.5 Tbsp of peanut butter!