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Jake passed his swallow test this morning and now gets to drink and eat pureed food - Hooray!!! His first food was applesauce, followed by apple juice and some graham cracker. We of course had to document this on camera, you can watch it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g6qHMdGxWY&feature=youtu.be

First stop after therapy was to get ice cream, excuse me, Gelato, as I was corrected by my son. "Mom it's not ice cream, it's Gelato, there's a huge sign that says so." We then ordered pureed pancakes with maple syrup for lunch and Dad brought Jake the Chick-fil-A lemonade he'd been talking about drinking.  It will be a little bit longer until he can take in enough calories orally so we can take out the feeding tube, but this was the first step. All the other stuff today with his agitation/fixation/lack of sleep doesn't seem as big of a deal when you see him being able to eat and drink. Overall, great day!

And the funny Jake comment today:

Uncle Ryan was pretending to eat Jake's leg trying to make him laugh, and Jake says "You can't eat my leg, that's a form of cannibalism."