My new favorite place

Well, it's been over five months since we've started the elimination diet adventure and to be honest, I'm in a bit of a rut. I've definitely have the hang of what I can and can't eat and thankfully we're down to just wheat and dairy! But, I want pizza. I want a krispy kreme. Yes I feel so much better from eating healthier and yes I those foods are bad for me but it's just where I'm at right now.

So enough of the pity party, let's talk about what's been going on the last few weeks! Pinterest has been a great source of inspiration for dinners. Only problem, I keep forgetting to take pictures so I can share them here! I'll keep working on that!

I do however have to share about the place Brent and I went last night on our date called Sub Zero Ice Cream. I am in love! So basically it's ice cream that is flash frozen right before your eyes! To start, you choose from a list of cream bases, which includes a non-dairy coconut milk base! Then you choose your flavor, which I chose peach. And finally you choose any mix-ins, and I chose raspberries. They stir the base, flavor and mix-ins together in a bowl and then flash freeze it into ice cream using liquid nitrogen. It's seriously the coolest thing! Here's a couple pictures of the place and my delicious, frozen creation.

 

 
Just staring at that picture makes me want to back now! I'll work on getting pictures of some of the "pinteresting" recipes I'm planning to make this week :)

So it's been almost a month since Sawyer has started solids and we've seem to run into a few problems. We started with pureed avocado and then once he figured out his swallowing reflex we moved onto chunks of avocado, cooked sweet potato and banana over the course of a couple weeks. He started getting really bad gas so we took out solids for a couple days and then decided to try rice cereal. My intention was to avoid rice cereal and purees after doing some research on baby led weaning. There's a lot of advice out there on the what, how, when and why to starting solids and it can be a really confusing! But with Sawyer's sensitive system I'm not sure what's going to be best for him. Even now with the rice cereal he is still having a lot of gas. We've been trying gas drops daily for almost a week to try and help. I'm not worried about him not getting enough nutritionally because breastfeeding provides all the nutrients he needs at this age, but he has an interest in food that I want to allow him to explore. I'm hoping things will start getting better for him soon! Here's a fun picture we snapped one of the nights he was eating avocado. Love those faces!