He is coming, R U ready

Well, it looks like we may be nearing the end of this part of this little adventure. Word is that Allan is being transferred (we aren't using the h-o-m-e word because of how Griffith reacted to it). We are shooting for Tuesday. He's going to be coming home with some accessories -- oxygen, monitor, feeding tube, kitchen sink. The only thing holding him back has really been this whole inconsistent eating-from-a-bottle thing. Since he's still pretty random and up-and-down on it, we are going with Plan B (or Double Y or Triple P or whatever -- we've had a lot of plans.) Any way, the current plan is that we try to bottle feed during the day and let him take what he does or does not want. Then, at night, we hook him up to the NG tube and feed him whatever the balance of that day's nutrition would have been. It isn't any wonder that the poor little fellow is having problems -- after all the talk of how fat he was, it shouldn't be a wonder that he has an eating disorder. Anyway, he is doing very well, other than being uncooperative. As an example of what a little twerp he is, Allan wouldn't take from his bottle yesterday, but last night was whiny and wriggly until he got a pacifier which he sucked on like a demon. A pretty, uncooperative demon.
Griffith and Miss Flora have taken to each other. She started yesterday and by ten a.m. Griffith had already managed to show her who was boss. She didn't move fast enough while she was changing him and he did a geyser on her just like he had done on me on Friday. She just laughed because she knew better than to leave a little boy armed and ready. After that, they got along just fine. I'm not sure she put him down all day and she sweet-talks him constantly. He loves it. I'm afraid that he isn't going to remember that his name is Griffith. All he hears all day long is Precious and Angel (which he particularly likes). Whatever else you can say about him, Griffith has a way with the ladies. He had a pretty good night tonight, too. He managed to find his thumb and has been working it over quite a bit. We haven't told him about Allan yet. We aren't sure that he is going to react well to having to share attention. Guess we will cross that bridge when we come to it.