Thursday, November 11, 2010

Big Changes

This little boy seems to grow by the day!
Which truly is a miracle.
In his short little life he's gone through rounds of testing trying to determine why he wasn't gaining weight.
When he was 15 months old we rushed him to the ER - his heart was racing and his breathing was labored. Turned out he'd swallowed a dime and it was lodged in his throat - after emergency surgery and a day of recovery life was back to normal.
Then in September came the "peanut butter incident" and another rush trip to the ER. Now our world is completely changed: no peanuts, no eggs and no tree nuts. No more peanut butter, no mac & cheese, no ranch dressing... big changes, but a huge blessing. Once we removed these foods from our diet Junior has started gaining more weight, his cheeks aren't red and chapped and he has a much healthier appetite.
Junior is daddy's little boy. If Dad is home Junior is with him... if Dad is leaving Junior wants to go.
Junior gives the happiest kisses and loves using his new words. Two new words of the day... "cool" & "pitty stars."

5 comments:

Jo Dee said...

Allergies are the worst! i am so glad you guys discovered them early on!

Amy said...

Poor little guy. I'm glad it was discovered early. That's SCARY! He sure is a cute little man.

Lara said...

I'm so glad you found the source of his problems. The biggest blessing is health!

Your little men sure are growing up!

Suz said...

When we had ducks we had lots of people come over and buy the eggs because their kids were allergic to chicken eggs but could eat the duck eggs... I'm not suggesting you try them without dr. clearance... but you might think about it... your baking would get easier if it works! :) Cute boys!

HaHa said...

Thanks for the idea... I never thought about duck eggs.