This is CocoNUTS (or is it peas?)
Moses has food allergies. And not just a few. To date, peanut, tree nut, wheat, dairy, soy, egg, peas, kiwi, seeds, strawberry and mango. He's also tested allergic over the years to some other things. Like coconut.
Coconut is the building block of Mo's diet. It's the milk on his cereal, the yogurt in his lunchbox, the ice cream we scoop into his root beer float. And when your weight is still falling below the bottom line of the growth curve at 8 years old, coconut matters.
If you want to read more about what happened to coconut, you can read more about it in the post https://momminginministry.blogspot.com/2018/09/momming-moses.html But, let me just say, the brand of coconut ice cream we buy did some serious messing with our heads when they added pea protein to their recipe. Because, who looks for peas in their ice cream label, right?!
Since he DOES test allergic to coconuts, despite eating them often, we decided we still needed to test them before he continued eating them. Because things change. Once upon a time he used to be able to eat sunflower seed butter but that went the way of the peanuts and so what if this had changed too.
It's been an eye-opening past few weeks without coconut. No more movie popcorn. Breakfast was nearly impossible until we tried some rice milk.
Today we scheduled a food challenge with coconut in the allergist's office.
When we got in the car today to head to the allergist I asked if he would be sad if this didn't work out.
"We've found substitutes for almost everything," he said. "It will be fine."
I admire him so much on days like today.
A food challenge is a very interesting appointment. We'd done two when he was a toddler. Failed soy. Passed banana. The appointment is scheduled for three hours. If things go well you stay three hours. If they go badly you either stay twenty minutes or you end up in the ER (but not likely). Samples of the food start with a flake or two and then build up every twenty minutes if no symptoms arise.
We watched a video, read a book, wrote his spelling words with crayon in the exam table and played "Exploding Kittens" the card game the boys bought me for my birthday. And at about 2:30 Moses chugged a half a cup full of coconut flakes and we called it good.
Moses-7, Coconut-0. Moses wins. And peas are dumb.
I have no idea what this has to do with momming in ministry. But, I am thankful for a community of people that cares about this stuff. Who post encouraging words and verses and pray with us, and cheer for coconut. Thank you.
Coconut is the building block of Mo's diet. It's the milk on his cereal, the yogurt in his lunchbox, the ice cream we scoop into his root beer float. And when your weight is still falling below the bottom line of the growth curve at 8 years old, coconut matters.
If you want to read more about what happened to coconut, you can read more about it in the post https://momminginministry.blogspot.com/2018/09/momming-moses.html But, let me just say, the brand of coconut ice cream we buy did some serious messing with our heads when they added pea protein to their recipe. Because, who looks for peas in their ice cream label, right?!
Since he DOES test allergic to coconuts, despite eating them often, we decided we still needed to test them before he continued eating them. Because things change. Once upon a time he used to be able to eat sunflower seed butter but that went the way of the peanuts and so what if this had changed too.
It's been an eye-opening past few weeks without coconut. No more movie popcorn. Breakfast was nearly impossible until we tried some rice milk.
Today we scheduled a food challenge with coconut in the allergist's office.
When we got in the car today to head to the allergist I asked if he would be sad if this didn't work out.
"We've found substitutes for almost everything," he said. "It will be fine."
I admire him so much on days like today.
A food challenge is a very interesting appointment. We'd done two when he was a toddler. Failed soy. Passed banana. The appointment is scheduled for three hours. If things go well you stay three hours. If they go badly you either stay twenty minutes or you end up in the ER (but not likely). Samples of the food start with a flake or two and then build up every twenty minutes if no symptoms arise.
We watched a video, read a book, wrote his spelling words with crayon in the exam table and played "Exploding Kittens" the card game the boys bought me for my birthday. And at about 2:30 Moses chugged a half a cup full of coconut flakes and we called it good.
Moses-7, Coconut-0. Moses wins. And peas are dumb.
I have no idea what this has to do with momming in ministry. But, I am thankful for a community of people that cares about this stuff. Who post encouraging words and verses and pray with us, and cheer for coconut. Thank you.
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