week 4

No bentos today. We ended up house sitting for a few hours this morning. Curtis had a friend that needed somebody home to wait on the cable guy to hook up the internet, so we went to that friend's house. When we got back we just made a quick pot of spaghetti.

We used rice noodles and that actually turned out really well. I may incorporate that into a bento sometime. We used an organic jarred sauce that Curtis' mom gave us (gf/cf) and it was really good.

Today starts Week 4 of our 10 week gf/cf plan, and so today our lunches and breakfasts are completely gluten free. I can tell that this is going to get very challenging, especially eating out.

We have noticed some good results though. Like I mentioned before, Cassidy's bed wetting is down drastically and hopefully will be over soon.

Asher's eye contact has increased dramatically, as well as his willingness to speak to people outside the family. His speech still does not seem to be as clear as it once was, which is worrisome.

This week has brought a major breakthrough, however, in that we are seeing imaginative play in Asher, and it is his own play. Before he would parrot Cassidy as she made up a game, but he never played pretend on his own. He didn't really play with toys either. But in the past few days he has all of a sudden started pretending. He's still not playing well with toys, but I can see it starting.

We are excited about getting the gluten out of his system totally to see if there are more changes. I'm hoping that it might help with the tantrums and screaming :/

But I am pretty sure that the diet is the big thing that is helping him. After we get through the 10 weeks and give him some time to clear his system we will at least do a casein challenge, which means introducing some casein back into his system. If the behaviors reappear, we know the diet did in fact help. I'm pretty sure it's helping, because we're seeing dramatic eye contact improvement and then this week the playing, like I've never seen my little boy play.