Trevor is two and a half and it shows! He is starting to talk in sentences more and more and coming up with a few new words every day. He also loves to do everything himself and is often very contradictory. Although Trevor can be difficult with how independent he is, he is also quite delightful and loves to be helpful- as long as its on his own terms. My biggest struggle by far with Trevor is his food allergies. We realized over a year ago that he is allergic to cow's milk and have made the transition to goat's milk for him, and I often have to make a separate meal for him, but we started to be lax about allowing him to eat things that had a little milk in them (a vast amount of processed foods do) because he wasn't throwing them up anymore, but he started experiencing other symptoms. I finally started reading a book about allergies (I was reluctant because I didn't want to face the increased difficulty finding food for him) and learned that kids often don't outgrow their allergies, but the symptoms just change to something else. Trevor rarely had a solid poopy diaper (I attributed this to how much fruit he eats, but Austin thought it was due to an allergy), has always struggled with eczema, and often has red under his eyes (maybe because his skin is almost transparent), but awhile ago he started getting hives in various places on his body every time he ate. They would last a couple hours then go away before he got more when he ate again. He was also being extremely aggressive and difficult to deal with (normal two year old behaviors, but very exaggerated) so I decided to keep a food diary for him and keep him off cow's milk in any form. After about 5 days he stopped getting hives and started having solid diapers every time. I thought it was all better, but just yesterday he threw up twice- I'm not sure why. Its possible that he was just sick, but he sure didn't act like it at any point during the day. He didn't eat any cow's milk or peanuts, so there might be another allergen. I'm still trying to figure it out. I've started to change the way our whole family eats- cutting out processed sugar as much as I can and including more varieties of whole grains. I've always been pretty good with fruits and veggies. I'm also trying to come up with more dinners and snacks that don't include milk, so that Trevor can just eat with us all. The rest of the family has been less than thrilled with it sometimes, but they are being good sports about it.
Anyway, Trevor is a fun little fellow that is so excited about life and brings lots of fun interactions to our family. A few fun facts about Trevor: He loves Snoopy and has to sleep with his stuffed animal Snoopy every night and nap. He loves peas and will often eat all of his, then try to steal some from his siblings. He is very independent and is often in the kitchen pushing chairs around to help himself to things that I put up high. He loves to relate everything to himself: he likes to point to characters in books and say "me" or if he sees anything he likes in a book or in real life he will point and say "mine". He wants to do everything his older siblings do- he runs around outside with the neighborhood kids like he's as old as everyone else, follows his siblings around everywhere, and watches them to see what they like then follows suit.
Here are some photos that I got of him today:
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