The Triple Birthday Party

Last Wednesday was my birthday, and I spent it flying home from work and doing another goat milk run once home.

Then I passed out at 8:45pm.

I know. I’m such a party animal!

That day was also the first day of the apricot trial break. Zac has been having strange symptoms since beginning apricot; mucousy poop, slight redness on his heinie, some appetite disruption, and a definite cranky attitude have shown up and hung around for far too long for my tastes!

However, he is also getting in all four of his 2 year molars simultaneously, and the other FPIES moms report that funny, “almost-mimic-chronic-FPIES-reaction” symptoms have been present for their little kids during the 2 year molar teething time.

Over the scheduled three day break, those symptoms didn’t go away. They didn’t get worse, but they didn’t recede.

If it was an apricot reaction, I would have expected them to go away, or at least diminish after 3 days without the food.

So we decided we will wait through the teething madness and refrain from food trials until those teeth are firmly in place. There is too much confusion present with teething to do food trials with confidence.

In the meantime, this weekend was the boys joint birthday party!

I suppose it was a triple birthday party for me, too, since I got a couple gifts as well.

As I mentioned, we bought the boys a swing set for their Big Birthday Gift.

Walmart did it’s best to wreck my kiddos birthday, but they failed. Sears saved the day!

Our swingset from Sears arrived Thursday, so Friday Darrel leveled the ground where the set was going and went to pick it up.

Unfortunately, this is NOT an easy swing set to put together, so it was not finished and in place by the time of the party.

Fortunately, Jed and Zac were so excited to be getting a swing set that they didn’t care! They had a blast hanging out with Daddy, Grandma and PopPop while they built the thing.

It helped that we were able to get their new kiddie pool in time for their birthday.

My boys ran around buck naked all weekend, hopping in and out of the pool and “helping” put the swing together!

For the party, I made Zac a modified Banana Quinoa Breakfast Bake, so he was able to have a birthday cake with candles! Yay! (Take that, FPIES!)

For Jed’s cake, I went all out and it was gorgeous! (More about that on Wednesday.)

We also had banana ice cream, which was basically my only birthday treat. But that’s better than I’ve had in a long time, so I’ll take it with a smile!

Jed has finally reached the point where he understands birthdays and gifts, and it was very fun to watch and listen to him open his gifts.

He got several little things that he loved, but, as anticipated, the BEST gift (other than the swing set) was a new Thomas riding toy!

Well, that and the helium balloons my Mom brought over.

Really, we could just forget gifts for Christmas and buy the boys about 20 helium balloons and they would be thrilled beyond belief.

Maybe get them a big cardboard box, too, and it would be “creative kid heaven”.

The morning of the party, of course, the kids and I cleaned out the Farmer’s Market of cauliflower again. This time my free gift from the farmers was a bag of fresh cucumbers. Yum, and thank you!

That meant that Sunday, while Darrel, Mom and Dad finished building the swing set, I was back in the kitchen processing cauliflower.

All in all it was a wonderful weekend. I only hope Zac finishes teething soon so we can resume the apricot trial and move on to new foods.

I may have to simply pick out new foods to trial while they’re in season and preserve enough for a year, just in case.

Won’t that be fun?

How was your weekend?