Krassi's weight stats

After meeting with the nutritionist a week and a half ago and implementing a number of strategies to make the food that Krassi takes in pack more punch and hopefully help him to start putting on some healthy weight, I was really looking forward to having him weighed at his one-time neurology visit this morning. After his first three weeks home gaining about a pound a week and topping out at 32 pounds, 7 ounces, he then started moving around on the floor during the day instead of just laying on the floor or being propped on the couch, and he's been steadily burning more calories than I can get into him ever since!

The fact that he's learning to be picky about what he eats doesn't help any, but we've recently seen that even with things that have historically (ha! Not much of a history, but we work with what we have) have been his favorites, he will often take one bite and then put his hand up to indicate he's done. No. Way. that boy is really done after one bite. So mealtime has become less of a Krassi-guided event and more mom and dad directing how much to eat. We've also been sweetening some things to make them more palatable.

But still, he was steadily dropping weight, and was all the way down to 31 pounds 5 ounces when we saw the nutritionist a week and a half ago. After 10 days of being increasingly intentional about what he's eating and how much, Krassi now weighs...

31 pounds, 1 ounce.

NOT what I was hoping to hear!!! I am comforted only by the fact that this little boy has likely moved more in the last 2.5 months than he did in the whole first eight years of his life, but it's still rather disconcerting to have your already-small nine year old losing weight when you're working so hard to help him gain weight!

He really can get himself up to this side-sitting position by himself, even with his braces on, and Leah wanted to be sure everyone knows that and she is just hugging him just because, not because he needs the help. ;)