Since it's been oh, 8 months since my last real post, I guess its time for a little update!
Liam is doing fantastically well. He's an amazingly curious toddler who has been walking running since 10 months and talking non-stop. I feel like a bad parent, but I honestly have no idea how many words he has, there are so many. We can't sit down and have an in-depth conversation that is entirely in understandable English, but he talks all.day.long. He's extremely polite, he will shake your hand if you ask and at least 50% of the time he says "thank you" if you hand/pass something to him. What can I say? I'm proud of him!
On the allergy front, we're working on things. There has been a drastic improvement but we're not entirely out of the woods yet. Last I updated, we were dairy, soy, egg, peanut, tree nut, fish, shellfish and beef free and I'm very happy to announce that we now are officially only egg and (obvious) dairy free! I say "obvious" dairy because he can have small amount of dairy, say a few bites of real mashed potatoes and have no reaction, but if he eats say, a slice of pizza, then he has a mild reaction. We're constantly testing him and seeing how he reacts to find out just how much he can handle. We are still nursing (with no end in sight, much to my mother's dismay [although her reasoning for me to stop is to help squash jealousy issues (more on that below), not that she thinks he's too old, and if she thinks that, she's never vocalized it]) so I am enjoying small amounts of dairy and occasional things with eggs baked in them, like cookies but not an omelette. We've discovered, however, that he is allergic to one of my parents cats. If we keep them separate, which isn't hard since the cats don't seem to be big fans of screeching toddlers, he can be around them for awhile before he starts getting sneezy and blotchy.
Now onto some big news: Liam is going to be a big brother! That's right, T2 is due June 11th, 2012 and we are very excited! We are currently technically "Team Green" but we intend on finding out the sex on Jan 23, as long as they cooperate!
Thats all the news/updates I can think of for now, stay tuned for more on everything as 2012 rolls around!
