bunless burgers and fries.. here we come.

that's right ladies and gents. we passed potatoes and beef today. i really can't believe it! i wasn't terribly worried about white potato, but his beef numbers were up there, (beef is cross reactive to milk, and we KNOW that is a true allergy) and the docs have been up and down about whether or not to try it for a few days. but we did it. and he did great. he had eaten more than a whole burger patty by the time of his last dose. for the potatoes, we did french fries and he loved them. who wouldn't?

and now, for approximately 16 pictures. :)

i'm really terrible at moving pics around in the order i need them on this particular computer, so i will just tell you what each one is...

we went to a street fair with mike and heidi (one of kenny's childhood bff's) and their son owen, who just turned 1. it rained on us the whole time, but we had umbrellas. and the baby boutiques were so so cute that i didn't care. (i'm a sucker for a good baby boutique.)and now we jump to bacon. we went out for dinner a couple nights ago... it was a small place, with no one hardly in there, and a very nice waitress so we decided to ask if they could make grayson an allergy friendly plate. we asked her how she made the bacon, if he could have corn made in a clean pot with NOTHING around it, and if they had an apple. she complied and brought us out his plate with corn, bacon and two apples neatly sliced. :) NOTE- we don't plan on making this a habit...eating out with him that is.. there is the fear of cross contamination and someone not being careful in the kitchen...so for the most part we will continue to take his food with us, which is fine. we're used to it.

back to the fair...

and back to the bacon... we could not get grayson, at first, to eat the corn. all he wanted was bacon. finally he decided that he would eat the corn as long as he could use the bacon for a spoon. weirdo.



this next one is AWESOME. GRAYSON IS EATING POPCORN!!! they had kettle corn at the fair, and the man told me that it was just soybean oil, corn, sugar and salt! and oh my word did he LOVE it! it was so fun to watch him eat a treat with everyone!
grayson has discovered that when not wearing socks in the car, it is fun to eat his toe.
and we're back to the popcorn.
sweet little owen at the fair...



not sure what all the leg extending is about.


grayson is doing really good. he is flaring a bit on his feet and the bottom of his legs. i have let him wear shorts for two days (giant sigh) and that could be why. so we wetwrapped his legs tonight and hopefully they will look better tomorrow. our discharge meeting is at one tomorrow, i really can't believe this has come to an end. it has FLOWN by. i think everyone is ready to come home. the kids' schedules are so messed up and aislyn is a bit crabby because of it. pray that tomorrow i will remember EVERYTHING that i want to ask the docs while i have them all in the same room.

i can't begin to tell you how much better we feel about all of this. our son can eat food. God has been so gracious to lead us to this particular hospital with these docs to really nail down what are his issues and what aren't his issues. we understand it all so much better now! and met amazing people in the process! not sure what we will challenge tomorrow, we're gonna talk about it in the morning.

off to bed now. thanks for checkin in...