Re: To Bonnie

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yeah michelle patty inspires me to LOL and im a charger xxxxxx ellen

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> Bonnie, Thanks for the frozen meat tip--good protein/cal booster! I

> have one more (okay " another " --can't promise it will only be one

> more!) question--I remember a while back you said that Patty made

> gutteral noises for the most part up until about 2 years old. Am I

> remembering this correctly? What do you think happened that helped

> move her speech along? I am thinking that once the jaw muscles have

> time to strengthen and the tongue moves around appropriately through

> eating different textures, that the speech comes as a result. So, I'm

> wondering if when Patty starting eating different textures if her

> speech improved. And also, can Patty eat whatever she wants now or

> does she still have trouble with thin liquids or chewing? Does Patty

> have any idea how helpful her history is to all of us? And I hope she

> knows how much her newfound independence is inspiring us, too!

>

> Thanks so much for helping!!! B

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> > Yes, I remember it all so well now that you are reminding me more. I

> do have

> > to admit I hated hot dogs. They were often what choked her. So did

> lettuce

> > as she got older. That kid put us through tons with choking on

> food. She also

> > used to hold things in her mouth forever! Sometimes we would think

> she would

> > be done eating, I would check her mouth, we'd let her down to find

> at a later

> > time that she was storing her food in her cheeks like a chipmunk.

> Be alert

> > on that one because I have heard that Patty isn't the only one who

> did that.

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> > Another thing we did was cook a T-bone steak and when we cut the

> meat off we

> > would freeze it. Boy did she just love to gnaw on it. I think it

> helped with

> > her teething. Just be careful to get most of the meat and fat off

> and to

> > watch for sharp edges. In telling this story I feel like my

> grandmother as I got

> > that Idea from her!

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> > Bonnie, mom to a 23, Patty CHARGE 21, and wife to

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