Big Boy Axel

We have great news family and friends......Axel is officially over all of his food allergies. The ironic thing about the testing that we did today showed that he developed a slight sensitivity towards peanuts. The doctor said that there is a high false positive on these tests. Our plan is to not completely avoid peanuts, but to reduce Axel's exposure and monitor him. In this same way we are suppose to slowly add dairy and soy back into his diet. Well, I am not much of one for moderation and so to celebrate Axel's great news we had my favorite childhood food for lunch, macaroni and cheese.

Although we are super excited that Axel can now eat almost all foods, we did find out he is just like his father and allergic to many environmental allergens. He is allergic to grass, weed, trees, mold, etc. The good thing is now I know his break outs are do to the environment and not food. We are going to have so much fun seeing him enjoy the foods that we enjoy. I will also have a lot easier time preparing food. :)

Axel asked for a hair cut on Saturday night. He was incredibly cute. It was about 8:30pm and I was stressed about him getting to bed when he said, "mommy I need a hair cut now." I told him to ask me tomorrow. While I was out riding he asked daddy and daddy said, "you have to wait until mommy gets home." Well, sure enough he remembered when I got home and we cut his hair. He told me exactly what I could cut, how much and what I was not allowed to cut. Daddy helped me finish his hair cut after a couple hour break because Axel cracked and wouldn't let me cut the other side of his hair. It looked pretty funny until daddy came to the rescue!

As you can see Axel likes the back a little longer and he likes his bangs on the shorter side. I get a kick at watching him look at himself and do really cute things in the mirror and then crack up at what he just saw himself do.

Axel truly is a funny man. He continues to love to make funny faces, or sounds or laugh boisterously to get attention. It is true. Some people are just born funny and funny is my favorite little boy!

Axel continues to love chocolate and sweets. We often have to bribe him with sweet incentives. This is not something that we are proud of or want to continue to do, but sometimes it is nice to know that a little chocolate proves a little cooperation!

Today we found out that Axel weighs 25 lbs with shoes and clothes on and is 36 inches with shoes on. The medical assistant documented his height as 35 inches because of his shoes, but didn't subtract weight for his shoes and clothes. Why is that? Why do they care about the height being more accurate than weight? That totally bugs me. Good news is he is growing.....slowly but surely!!!!! I am secretly hoping he will have a huge growth spurt now that he will be getting more fat and protein from dairy and less sugar from all of the non dairy, non soy foods.

We are off to another play date with Rishaan. Have a great weekend and lets hope for another good weekend of football. Go Patriots and 49ers!

California Winter

The days are passing quicker than I can keep up with so I apologize for the delay in posts. We have been busy with playing and socializing. Axel loves having picnics for lunch. He makes phone calls to Auntie and Annika with his cashier station check out gun.

Axel and Rishaan have lots of play dates. They are becoming best friends quickly. It is such a joy to see how much they like each other and how well they get along. I have been noticing that Axel is somewhat of the boss and Rishaan is extremely good at going along with Axel's games. Hopefully, this will balance out more over the years.

One of Axel's favorite things to do is play in the leaves. This was our last racking since our trees are officially barren.

I had planned on adding to this post, but since it has already been a week I will start another post. Boy, does time fly!