The Allergist

We finally took Miles to the allergist this morning. You may remember that back in May, Miles broke out in hives after getting peanut all over his face. We got a referral to see an allergist, but I have been putting it off because I thought that it would involve poking with needles and tears.

Good news on all fronts. Allergy testing no longer involves needles and there were no tears. We met with Dr. Min this morning (who was awesome) and Miles was tested for allergies to peanuts, cashews, walnuts, pecans, and pistachios plus a negative and positive control on his back. The other encouraging news is that no nut elicited a reaction that looked anything like the positive control. This means that Miles' reaction could have just been a skin response and that he does not produce the IgE antibody hypersensitivity response to peanuts.

After discussing the options with Dr. Min, we have decided to challenge Miles' system with peanuts again. Next Wednesday, with an epi-pen junior in hand and Dr. Min on call, Miles will get to eat a peanut butter sandwich. We will start small with just a little peanut butter placed inside his bottom lip. If nothing happens after 10 minutes, Miles will get to eat a little piece of sandwich, and so on. If nothing happens after the whole sandwich, then hooray! Our kid may be able to enjoy pad thai and peanut satay after all. Worst case scenario Miles will get an epi-pen shot to the thigh and we will head to Dr. Min's office, which is less than 10 minutes away. Fingers crossed please. My instincts are telling me that Miles is not going to react, and that he just has really sensitive skin like his mama.

Miles at 17 months

A few movies

I am hoping Sara will comment:
Drew has been doing a great job keeping up with this blog. Here are some new movies of Miles.

Last weekend we bought Miles a Larry Fitzgerald jersey. Cute, eh.

Miles continues to love to watch videos of himself.

He loves to water for us in the evenings. See we are getting a fence put in around our patio so we can all hang out in the front (dogs included) without having to worry about anyone running into the street.

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Yea Baby Einstein TV Show

spider pics

Just For Fun

Miles during Playtime

Before Miles was in full-time daycare, if I was really tired in the morning, we would go into his playroom and I would go back to sleep for a bit while he played. Now he protests...





Miles is imitating us a lot lately. In this video he shakes his head when I say no and shake mine. I guess I am going to have to start watching my sailor mouth. The last thing I want is a phone call from the Methodist daycare about Miles' expansive vocabulary.

Miles in the chair and a movie about rocks

It was a roller chair.

I drove.

He sat and the back and navigated.

We hit more walls than expected.

I blame the navigator; he thought it was hilarious.

Fun was had by all.

There were some rocks too.