A few of Lucy's favorite things

As you can tell in this picture, Lucy still loves her pacifiers and we keep several on hand always!  In 4 years, when she's bawling on the way to kindergarten because I won't let her take her pacifier with to school, I may regret allowing her to have it on demand right now, but as we've said before, she didn't have any soothing methods in the NICU besides taking a pacifier and all of her docs have told us how important it is for her to maintain the ability suck and get oral stimulation since she is still fed mostly through her G-Tube.

On the other hand...we have been trying to help her learn to drink out of a sippy cup since she has never been interested in a bottle.  I think we've tried almost every type that has been manufactured - straws, no straws, valves, no valves, handles, no handles, soft plastic, hard plastic, etc, etc, etc.  She still doesn't like to drink anything beyond a few sips at mealtime.  We are hoping that the feeding clinic can help us with this dilemma so that she can get off this stinking feeding tube!

She's learned to shake her head "no"and it's the cutest thing.  It first started when I was singing to her, but I think that was just a coincidence, since she does it quite often now...here's a quick video clip.

Lucy and daddy got to visit mommy at work this week, and she got her last Synagis shot (to fend off RSV).  Other than that, we are hunkering down for the last of the winter weather here in Minnesota and enjoying a relatively calm household!