Hot Cereal, Hand-Flapping

This morning I tried making him Red Mills' GF Mighty tasty Hot cereal. He REFUSED to try it - I could not get any into his mouth which was quite disappointing. The cereal wasn't so bad - DH & I had some. I put brown sugar, milk, & raisins in mind & Victor's. DH ate his with Maple Syrup.

Victor has been hand flapping a lot more the past few days. I have no idea why. He hasn't had any gluten that I know of (not that I think that's really working anyway). Can kids have a fish sensitivity? He had some fish sticks and I know he flapped a lot more when he had CLO. My DH doesn't think that's it but I guess I'm grasping at straws. Any ideas?

AVB

Victor's new Speech therapist (ST) started yesterday. We didn't get much accomplished as Victor went down for his nap late & was super crabby when I woke him up for this. He wasn't cooperating & cried most of the time. However it wasn't a total disaster as she explained AVB to me & how she is going to use it with Victor. She is also pushing EI (Early Intervention) for 4 times a week instead of 2 as she doesn't think that's enough. She said Victor was a good candidate for AVB because he is social, has good eye contact, and is aware of people, places, things... It's nice to hear someone having a plan for how we're going to get him to talk! She is going to use picture cards and a lot of repetition & also use rewards when he tries such as snacks, books (he's a book fanatic, and possibly some TV time though I told her I think that would backfire because he would probably get really angry when she shut it off). She seems very confident so I am hopeful!

Nothing new with the GF diet. I still don't see much of a change. We're planning on going CF as well right after Halloween and then we'll give that a fair shot before we scrap all this.

mmm avocado sandwiches

Another sandwich idea using that crispy bread stuff by Glutino. I mashed some avocado & added a touch of salt & lemon. He loved it :)

I had given him these sandwiches before with regular bread & he ate them fine but then when we went GF I tried giving him avocado chunks & he wanted nothing to do with it.

I love being able to add another lunch meal to send to daycare to my list!

Today I heard Victor "Moo" - now he was in the backseat in his car seat so I have no idea if he was looking at the cow in his book when he was saying it but I had given him the book when we sat down & I did point at the cow & say Moo.

Polenta!

I made Victor some Polenta last night (well my make I mean I bought the pre-cooked tube & pan fried some slices) and then melted cheese on it. He really loved it. I guess when we go CF we will try it with tomato sauce instead. I didn't take any pictures though :(

New Booster Seat

We moved Victor from his high chair to a booster seat at the table last night. Mostly because the high chair was annoying us but its a good step for him anyway. He seems to like it ok:
As you can see he is still using his fingers though! He is ok using the fork for the meat pieces & veggie pieces but he refuses to use it for things like pasta & rice. Sometimes he'll use a spoon for rice but mostly he uses his fingers.
I haven't been able to transition him to a regular cup yet either & now I'm going to start looking for a cup with handles - I think that will help him. We've tried sippies without handles & he's ok with those but cups are hard.

the noodles he is eating by the way are by Thai Kitchen: http://www.worldpantry.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prmenbr=1279010&prrfnbr=1351043
I found it in the Asian section of my supermarket. I didn't know if he would like the roasted garlic flavor along with ginger & other Thai spices but he loved it! Here's a list of their GFCF products: http://www.thaikitchen.com/allergyinfo.html

Nothing new here

I didn't experiment with any new GF meals this weekend. He had some chicken breasts with dill on a salad, chicken nuggets ( that I made last week & froze), fish sticks, scrambled eggs.. nothing new.

I did however find some of the Red Mill GF Hot Cereal mix that is supposedly good so we'll try that for breakfast sometime this week.

I did want to say that the Glutino Crispy Bread works very well for sandwiches. Its not they typical sandwich as its crunchy but I put PB&J on it & Victor loved it. They taste like Rice Crispies cereal to me. I'm glad I found them - they'll be good for lunch "sandwiches"

Yesterday his poop seemed better so I am hopeful that the poop situation is almost over!

another day

Victor's had a bad cough lately so that with the diarrhea had us sending him to his pedi today. She was actually out so he saw someone else. That Dr said the diarrhea was probably due to the nasal drip and had nothing to do with being gluten free. She prescribed Zithromax because she said it was likely he had an infection. I'm not so keen on giving him antibiotics when I don't know for sure but his cough is really bad and even my husband is going to take the antibiotics cause he has it too.

I made a meatloaf last night that Victor really loved thankfully :). I wanted to give it to him for dinner but I wasn't sure about the barbecue sauce I used so I had to wait till today during their office ours to call them and yay it is GF. Now I have to think about dinner tonight!

TGIF! I am so tired.