OATS!

Saturday morning, Darrel and I sat over breakfast and discussed starting our next food trial for Zac.

The plan had been to trial salmon, but when I commented how shocked I was that Zac had shown no reactions to the oats in the lanolin, Darrel pointed out that since we’ve already inadvertently sort-of  started an oat trial, why shouldn’t we just make it official and get it over with?

Good point.

So we did.

Saturday I made a batch of oatmeal cookies and Zac loved them!

I loved the fact that for the first time in their lives, I served both my boys the same exact treat at the same time. For once, they could both eat off the same plate!

Such a normal, little thing, but such a huge, big deal for us.

Sunday morning, Darrel made oatmeal for the three men in my life for breakfast.

All three of them ate the same thing for breakfast.

Seriously mind-blowing for me. We’ve had to prepare three meals at every mealtime for so long now, this is just…overwhelming in its simplicity.

Unfortunately, neither Zac or Jed cared for bowls of oatmeal very much. Zac actually just lightly licked his spoon, though Jed did eat a few bites before asking to be excused.

No matter; they both scarfed down the cookies later that day!

So, the big question: how is it going?

Honestly, I don’t know.

His poop has been sort of a mess; mushier and softer than usual, with some visible mucous. But it hasn’t been a lot of mucous, just a tad more than I typically see. And the weather has been changing; my head has been feeling the pressure and that typically can cause an increase in mucous production. So that could explain the mucous.

The texture, well…that could be just his body adjusting to a new food.

Or it could be the early signs of a reaction.

He’s also been an absolute PILL all weekend. LOTS of temper tantrums!

However, he’s been having more temper tantrums in general the last couple of weeks, even before we started the newest trial.

Since these weekend tantrums look and sound exactly like the fit pitching he’s been doing with such regularity for the last couple of weeks, it’s really hard to judge whether they’re more frequent or worse in severity since the oats started.

Honestly? There isn’t anything concrete to convince me he’s reacting.

But there isn’t anything concrete to convince me he’s not  reacting, either.

So it’s still in the early stages, and we’ll keep a close eye on things.

I really hope our safe-food-streak continues.

At speech therapy on Monday, Zac did pretty well. He said three words, which is huge for him!

The amusing part, though, was that his therapist revealed a little part of his personality that I knew about, but didn’t realize the full extent of.

Apparently, the only thing Zac wants to talk about during therapy is…Mommy.

When she tries to get him to talk about anyone or anything else, he just grunts “uhn-uhn” and shakes his head no. But when she asks about me, he opens his mouth, gets a big smile, and will actually say words and sounds in response.

I knew he was a “Mama’s Boy”, but…wow! That’s a serious Mama’s Boy!

On a personal note, I’m reaching out to my fellow moms on this one: do you ever go through phases where it seems like you’re just out of step with everything?

Where instead of bringing your “A” game to life, you’re constantly going “oh, yeah…we need to do this now. Oops!”

I’m there. It stinks.

I’m hoping it’s just that I’ve been working too much and some time at home will help solve the problem, but I wonder what YOU do to get your “A” game back.

Help!