Soy milk

Bring out the desserts, crank up the music and throw the confetti. Its time to celebrate!!!

Over a box of milk, you ask? Why?!?!?

This box of soy milk represents 3 years of being creative, annoying anyone who invites us for dinner with questions about the food, finding new ways to remake dinner and avoiding the ice cream truck:)

And I will gladly let those boxes of milk be purchased by some other happy dairy allergic consumer.

3 years ago, when Noah was first born, we discovered that he had a dairy allergy. And while this allergy was really trivial compared to other things he could have had to endure, it was still challenging for me to deal with as a first time parent. He would get hives whenever he would ingest any type of dairy and in one instance I remember he got hives from a raisin in a granola box. Is there really any dairy in granola? Really?!?! Who knew that just about everything out there seems to have some form of dairy in it!

It became a little stressful trying to keep any and all dairy products away from my child, especially when out at other people's houses or at restaurants. But thankfully, we live in a time where they are making things a little bit easier for people with allergies. They are clearly marking products that contain any form of the major allergies out there. And the organic food stores are getting great products in for families like ours that needed to make things just a little differently.

And slowly, within the last 6 months or so, we have seen a gradual and ever increasing ability in Noah to accept some of the dairy . It seemed every day we got just a little bit closer to being dairy-allergy-free until just this past week, we finished off our last box of soy milk! WAHOO!! And even better, I was thinking I'd have to wean him off the soymilk and onto normal milk, but he didn't even blink when he had his first sips of regular milk!!!!

Goodbye Silk, Hello wonderful world of freedom!

Added bonus: Starting to feed child #2 table food just got a little easier:)