Jonathan has now officially been gluten free for 8 days!!
There have been ups and downs, at one point this week Jonathan said, "I am tired of trying new foods." My sweet, picky boy really has been a trooper.
There have been two recent triumphs, hey it is the little things!
Last night for dinner the kids asked for pancakes. Joseph is in charge of pancakes, they always turn out better when he does them, and I pulled out the gluten free box I picked up the other day. The batter had no smell, the pancakes were very dense and I thought there is no way he is going to eat these.
But I cut them up away from the table, poured the syrup on them and presented them with my best face! All 3 kids ate them up and the boys asked for seconds!
Then last night after the kids were in bed I set out to make gluten free Chocolate/zucchini muffins. I do not have a food processor so the zucchini was in bigger chunks than I wanted and pretty noticeable in the dough.
Strike one.
Then I baked them and they didn't rise smoothly (I have heard that is one of the main complaints about gluten free baking).
Strike two.
The kids knew I was going to bake chocolate muffins, so the moment the got up, Jonathan asked, "Are the muffins ready?" I heated them up a little for each of them and they loved them!! Jonathan ate 3. He probably got his veggie servings for the whole day! So I guess what I am saying is I am going to stop deciding what he is and isn't going to eat. we are going to keep trying new foods and get this boy healthy.
We will not know if the change in diet helps him until we go back in for a check up in about a month, but Joseph and I both feel we have noticed some improvement in his hearing. He is asking us to speak up or say things again just louder. He never did that before, which leads us to believe that he is noticing that he can't hear things. I have also been listening for his morning "nasal voice" (he always sounded like he had a cold first thing in the morning) and it seems to be gone.
We are praying for complete healing for out little man.
There have been ups and downs, at one point this week Jonathan said, "I am tired of trying new foods." My sweet, picky boy really has been a trooper.
There have been two recent triumphs, hey it is the little things!
Last night for dinner the kids asked for pancakes. Joseph is in charge of pancakes, they always turn out better when he does them, and I pulled out the gluten free box I picked up the other day. The batter had no smell, the pancakes were very dense and I thought there is no way he is going to eat these.
But I cut them up away from the table, poured the syrup on them and presented them with my best face! All 3 kids ate them up and the boys asked for seconds!
Then last night after the kids were in bed I set out to make gluten free Chocolate/zucchini muffins. I do not have a food processor so the zucchini was in bigger chunks than I wanted and pretty noticeable in the dough.
Strike one.
Then I baked them and they didn't rise smoothly (I have heard that is one of the main complaints about gluten free baking).
Strike two.
The kids knew I was going to bake chocolate muffins, so the moment the got up, Jonathan asked, "Are the muffins ready?" I heated them up a little for each of them and they loved them!! Jonathan ate 3. He probably got his veggie servings for the whole day! So I guess what I am saying is I am going to stop deciding what he is and isn't going to eat. we are going to keep trying new foods and get this boy healthy.
We will not know if the change in diet helps him until we go back in for a check up in about a month, but Joseph and I both feel we have noticed some improvement in his hearing. He is asking us to speak up or say things again just louder. He never did that before, which leads us to believe that he is noticing that he can't hear things. I have also been listening for his morning "nasal voice" (he always sounded like he had a cold first thing in the morning) and it seems to be gone.
We are praying for complete healing for out little man.
Here are some pictures of the process...
This is what gluten free-dairy free baking ingredients looks like!
Wouldn't even stop eating to cheese for me!
2 comments:
Great job Bethany! Kids will constantly suprise you with what they will and will not eat. Sometimes when we were out of milk, I used to stealthly give the kids dried milk in their cereal (you know, the dried up stuff that you add water to.) and though it does have an unsual taste they never said a word or seemed to even notice. :)
This is great news. Thanks for sharing the up-date! Love y'all!
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