First day to drink from a straw!

We are pretty excited. Her ng- tube slipped out early this afternoon. It was due to be changed to the other nostril anyway. So we thought we would atleast give her an hour or two off. Relief from the irritation of that thing in her nose and down her esophagus.
Well we immediately tried some oral feeding. They gave us some little juicy containers with the little straw when we left the hospital. But instead of juice, it's her very expensive formula(which tastes disgusting on it's own), but it's flavored with orange-pineapple. We put the straw to her mouth and she immediately started sipping it like an old pro. It was actually quite miraculous. Here we are tube feeding her an ounce/hour. And she just chug-lugged an ounce in a minute. She drank about half of the carton and then took the best nap she's taken in along time-3 hours!
Then when she woke up we went at it again with the straw. She finally finished it at around 8:30pm and when she drank the last sip, our family cheered so loudly, while she kicked her legs in glee. We got down on our knees and thanked the Lord for the success of this flavored formula, packed with calories(30 cal/oz). We spent the rest of the evening singing praise songs with the kids and giving the Lord thanks.
She actually drank three more ounces after that from a cup. And, once again she just blew us away as we watched her drink from a cup just like any other child would.

Well, David just put her to sleep so that is my cue to do the same. Bye for now.