Food Update

It's been about 1 year since we found out about Blake's food allergies. I was so overwhelmed before with what he couldn't eat and now I feel like I have a good handle on what he can eat, how to make meals the whole family can enjoy, how to grocery shop, what food to pack for him for snacks while we're out and about, and we've even got brave and ordered food from restaurants for him.

We've decided that we're going to slowly start giving him foods that he's allergic to and see if he reacts. He's had 2 eggs mixed in pancakes and also banana bread and he is fine with that. He had some cookies that had some chocolate chips that contained soy. I feel like he's old enough now that I would be able to tell/he could tell me if something was bothering him, plus it just seems like he's bigger and stronger boy who would be able to handle a reaction if he were to have one (versus the 10 month old baby who couldn't stop vomiting, was grey an lethargic and ended up in the ER)

I don't have an exact plan right now, other than start with eggs baked in things, then maybe move to straight up scrambled eggs? Then try milk baked in things? Just taking it slow. 

A couple months ago, Blake started getting very frustrated and jealous of the yogurt that Campbell got to eat. I was super excited to find rice yogurt and it even has probiotics in it - woohoo! Blake loves his "yo-yo."

Blake has a bad case of pizza love or "itza luve" as he says. It occurred to me (don't know why it took so long, it seems so obvious now) that he can have pizza, just without the cheese. Pizza Luce, so conveniently and dangerously located within walking distance, has a crust and sauce made from simple ingredients, all of which he can eat. He didn't have any interest in the first one I ordered for him that just had veggies on it. But the next time, I ordered him one with just chicken on it & he devoured it. A couple times now when drive into the garage on our way home from somewhere, he says (yells), "No home! Itza!" As in, I don't want to go home, let's go get some pizza!)

I realized I was using 'milk' to refer to both cow's milk and rice milk and thought it was good for him to learn, so we've started correctly identifying cow's milk versus rice milk. Now Blake points to Campbell's milk & says "cow's milk" and to his and says "rice milk."