We have had visitors in town for the last three days. It was wonderful. The baby had a playmate, and I got to have an adult conversation during the day.
But we're back to a normal, slow day of lots of books, peek-a-boo and simple meals.
Excessively simple meals. Because we're trying to figure out if we have food allergies on our hands now.
The baby has had break-outs around her mouth off and on for the last month or so. Two doctors have already said that it doesn't look like a food allergy to them, but we're taking her to a specialist on Monday. She has no other symptoms. BUT we figured it couldn't hurt to try to limit certain things - gluten, eggs, dairy - and use goat milk instead, etc.
So the Month of The Chicken is postponed. At least for now. It's not the time for us to be trying all sorts of new dishes, introducing new ingredients. And I don't make completely separate dishes for the baby; we basically eat this same foods. It's too complicated to do otherwise for a sustained period of time.
I'm sad. It was going to be fun. I had a ton of recipes planned out.
But it's for the best - we really should get to the bottom of this. And whether or not it's food related, having a simple diet will at least help when the doctors start to ask us a bunch of questions.
We'll just have A Month of The Super Simple Crockpot meals. :-) It will be August, after all. Best to not turn the oven on.
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