Something's not right here

I made dinner tonight while wearing Copper in the Baby Bjorn while Aubrey finished playing his video game and then made himself a margarita.

Peach Puree

I have these grand ideas of making Copper's baby food. It's not necessarily due to the prices of baby food or providing her with fresh food, but because of packaging. Those little plastic Gerber food containers aren't recyclable and I feel bad going through a million little jars over the course of Copper's baby food eating months. I purchased a book called, "Organically Raised" and for the first time made fresh baby food. Since peaches are in season I tried those first. It was actually really easy. I mixed them with Copper's oatmeal this morning and she didn't like them as much as pears or apples (she made a gagging face at one point), but it felt good feeding them to her. Tomorrow I'm going to try sweet potatoes.

Sacrifices

While cleaning the chocolate cake batter off the beaters from my mixer, I had a realization that someday I will no longer be able to lick the bowl. I'll have to let Copper do it. I am not looking forward to that day.

Corn: The New Enemy

About a month ago Copper developed a bunch of really dry spots all over her body. It was right before going in for her 6 month appointment and when I asked the pediatrician about them, she said that it was just "extremely dry skin" and wrote a prescription for cortizone cream. It seemed odd that Copper would all of a sudden get this rash especially since I've never used lotion of her and she's always been fine. Nothing had really changed that would cause the rash either. I went ahead and started lathering her up with a heavy cream and cortizone cream. The rash only got worse. It's really spotty so it just didn't seem right that it was dry skin. When Lucy was around 1 - 1-1/2 she had a really bad rash on her legs due to a dairy allergy. That made me think that maybe Copper was having something similar happening. Copper was due to go back to her NAET doctor to get tested for her dairy allergy so it seemed like a good opportunity to ask about the rash. Dr. Snyder tested her for her dairy allergies and she tested well for them. A little muscle weakness with yogurt and whey, but not enough to need another treatment right now. She did test strongly for a corn allergy which is also a very common food allergy. On Friday she was treated for her corn allergy and I once again went on a restricted diet. No corn products including anything that contained corn starch and corn syrup. I was also supposed to avoid foods with baking soda and baking powder, but that was asking a bit much. You'd be surprised at how many foods have corn products in them. The nurse told me that it was very difficult to avoid corn and to do the best I could. It went pretty well over the weekend with an exception to Lisa's supper party where I ate Derby Pie which is made with corn syrup. Copper went in on Monday morning to get tested again and still tested pretty strong to corn. They did another treatment and I'm still avoiding corn products. Her rash isn't getting any better and the doctor said that it would probably get worse before it clears up. We go in again tomorrow and hopefully she doesn't test for the allergy anymore. And hopefully that is what is causing the skin problem.