This Drinking Fountain Made My Day!

Here it is the third day of school and everyone is doing great. My boy loves his teacher, she loves him and tells me how great he is and we couldn't be happier, or so I thought.

As I have mentioned before, we have been in feeding therapy for a few years now but feeding isn't the only thing we work on.  We also work tirelessly on drinking. My son loves milk but will only drink it out of a particular sippy cup and now that he is a big boy we can't send that cup everywhere he goes. He will drink pop out of a cup or through a straw but they don't want that in school so I have been very worried about him having to go 8 full hours without a drink. On a rare occasion he will try a sip of apple juice and as of very recently he will sip water but only from the water slide sprayer and in the shower. He hasn't had water out of a cup since he was a baby and everyone on his team has tried at one time or another.

Today we had to take a detour to the bathroom on the way to class and on our way we saw a drinking fountain. My little one feels the need to test out every fountain he passes so of course we made a stop. After little brother had his sip I decided to give it a try and ask N if he wanted a turn. He looked at it and only hesitated for a second or two before he took a sip of his own! Who knew I could have so many Birthdays in one year! This little sip of water has made me the happiest mommy every.

To top it off, when we went to his class and told his teacher, she was just as happy as we were and said she was going to take him to every fountain in the school so he knows where they all are. I had sent milk money in his lunch bag because they were going to try a milk carton with a straw today in the cafeteria after my sister thought of this great idea, but now if doesn't go for that we have a backup option.

This is the perfect way for a mom like me to start the day! Hooray for the new school year!