Wheat-free weekend!

This weekend we finally had time (and cookbooks!) to figure out what we need to make some good wheat-free, dairy-free, egg-free items.  I have been feeling really guilty lately because most of the stuff we have been feeding Thomas comes from plastic packaging, cans and the microwave.  Things we made this weekend were oatmeal pancakes, apple muffins, bread and shepard's pie.  We went on a crazy, long shopping excursion on Saturday to get tons of ingredients.  Luckily, Steve and I weren't the only exhausted people and we all got to take a 3 hour nap in the afternoon!  Sunday was baking day.  The oatmeal pancakes turned out great!  They looked like REAL pancakes... and tasted sort of like real pancakes:

Most importantly, though, Thomas LOVED them... here he is devouring them :)

The apple muffins are great, Steve and I love them, but unfortunately they did not pass the Thomas taste test... so we have breakfast for mom and dad this week!!!!  We got a bread recipe from Cracker that I was ready and willing to attempt, but we happened to go to Stop and Shop and were checking out the gluten-free boxes of bread and found one that was pretty much the same ingredients.  We also got Ener-G egg replacer so we could use that where it called for eggs.  I was really nervous about the bread while I was making it.  It was supposed to rise, you bat it down, then it was supposed to rise an inch over the pan and you bake it.  When I made it, it did not rise at all, I put it in the pan, it rose maybe a half inch, I almost just didn't bother baking it.  But thank goodness I did!  It tasted just like regular bread AND was soft and fluffy AND Thomas loved it!!!!  I think this might have been one of my proudest moments.  I don't know why, I mean, it's just bread, but for some reason I was really sad that he wasn't eating bread anymore, and now he can!!!!

And then to make this even more rewarding, Thomas took a drink!!!!  He has been getting really good it, especially at daycare.  Today, he drank about 3 ounces from a cup!

He is warming up to the Shepard's Pie.  Unfortunately, with all this cooking going on, Steve didn't have a lot of time to do work.  But we had a lot of fun together.  We discovered that Thomas gives kisses!!!  This is what happened when I asked for a kiss:

A nice open mouth kiss on the cheek :)  He also LOVES his chair.  He sits and reads in it, he jumps around in it, dives off the edge (scary, but he laughs all the time)

Next up for Thomas is patch testing.  We got the patches put on today.  They want to make sure Thomas isn't allergic to anything else before we proceed with the scope to check on his eosinophilic esophagitis (EE).  The downfall of these patches is that he can't have a bath for the next two days!!!  He is going to be one stinky, sticky guy.

On Thursday we get the results.  Let's hope that there is nothing added!  If nothing is added, we are already 3 weeks into this diet with 3 weeks to go until we can re-scope!  I am really hoping since they have not actually found a milk allergy that milk will be the first thing we get to add back (cheese, cheese, CHEESE!!!!!).