Knock on wood.
We were crippled last week (and half of this week) with some tummy drama. Joe and I have been swapping Ben duty to take time off work to care for him, and we thought as of Sunday he was all better. We took him to daycare Monday morning only to get a call at 10am letting us know he was *not* at ALL better. So back to the doctor we went, and thankfully, everything was fine (still just getting over a yucky virus). Turns out Ben has a "sensitivity" to milk, so when we jumped the gun and took him off his pedialite/cracker diet and switched back to whole milk, his poor stomach wasn't ready. So we have been on soy milk since Monday afternoon, and voila, Tuesday he was normal and by Wednesday he was back at daycare feeling great. I don't think he was lactose intolerant, just sensitive to it, and we'll be right back with whole milk by Friday. In the meantime, we have discovered the wonderful taste of KETCHUP! I introduced him to chicken nuggets a few weeks ago, when he refused to eat any other meat/protein (no cheese, no beef, no cooked chicken, etc). He LOVED them... and then the other night we ordered take-out from our favorite BBQ place. I gave him some shredded pork, and he spit it out. But then I dabbed it in a little BBQ sauce and WHOA he loved it! So then when he started throwing his chicken nuggets, I figured I'd try dipping it in ketchup, to give it a different flavor. One taste and he was HOOKED :) So now that he's no longer sick, he's eating like a champ, and loving the chicken with ketchup! He also still LOVES bananas and most fruits, yogurt, will occasionally eat cheese but not as much as he used to, and still refuses all veggies, including mashed potatoes, and any/all pasta. We sneak some veggies in with the "fruit/veggie yogurt" we sometimes buy... but I'm goint to have to get creative to get him to eat other stuff.
We're also dealing with some major temper tantrums, and whoo-boy, are we UPSET! It started as whining and crying... and has morphed into full blown kicking, pounding, flaling and SCREAMING on the ground. Complete with hysterical tears. I'm sure our neighbors below love it ;) I can handle it at home, but when he does it in the middle of the grocery store (not on the ground, but in the cart), I always debate just leaving the store to save myself the embarrassment of being THAT parent with the hysterical toddler. I finally resorted to buying him a mylar balloon, and that entertained him happily for the rest of the outing. I'm in so much trouble :)
1 year 4 months 1 week old
