We have been to two birthday parties over the last couple of weeks where our lovely friends have asked about foods for the boys and have provided food they can have and even baked cake safe for the boys. Thank you Nic and Michelle! It means the world to us that the boys are not felt left out and when people go that extra mile it brings a happy tear to my eye.
Sadly we have had two encounters where both Oscar and Harry have been excluded last week. I don't expect others to not bake because of allergies but If it involves my child and means they are going to be in a situation where they are left out and feel sad then I would prefer to be asked so I can at least provide a safe alternative for them.
This happened at Kindy at the end of term. It was a child's birthday and the parents brought in cupcakes for all of the children. I walked in at Mat time and Harry was holding a cupcake! I quickly grabbed it off him and he was so upset. I carried him out of Kindy to the car balling his wee eyes out all the way to the shop. He finally stopped when I brought him a lemonade iceblock. I just don't understand when it became acceptable to feed other people's children without asking their parents.
Oscar's class also made chocolate chippie biscuits on the last day. I saw the ingredients sitting on the table and questioned his teacher. Sure enough they were baking something he couldn't eat. I ended up driving home then back to school to give Oscar little dark chocolate bars that he could have while everyone else ate the biscuits. As soon as I walked in to his class his face lit up knowing he got to have a treat. He did confess at dinner time that he felt sad while his class were eating the biscuits because the other children were asking him why he was eating chocolate. He also said the biscuits were much bigger than his chocolate!
Easter Sunday and the boys ran outside to go on a hunt for lollipos and dark chocolate. This year Easter Bunny was most organised ordering dark chocolate whittakers kiwis with the online groceries well in advance. They were stored away until Easter morning. Unfortunately Easter Bunny didn't check the kiwis and they were all milk chocolate! Yet again I grab it out of Harry's hands and Oscar's. As you can imagine tears all round. Charlie offered Oscar one of his mini dark chocolate bars, what a caring wee brother.
So in a nutshell leading upto Easter and Easter Sunday was quite the disaster!
At bed time Charlie has started crying saying he has a sore stomach and needs patted to sleep. He's waking up also throughout the night which is totally out of character and wants the hallway light on even though he has a night light on in his room.
Charlie hears the requests of the other two and knows we pat them to sleep and he wakes up in the morning seeing each of us with Oscar and Harry. He must feel so leftout!
At a Birthday Party we went to recently Charlie was putting on his plate all the foods that Oscar and Harry were allowed and nothing else. I reassured him that he could have all the food and he was so excited!
We had another specialist appointment this week. Just the usual "Keep using this steriod cream for this amount of time and you will have no problems". We also got another allergy blood test for Oscar but haven't got the results back yet. He screamed the place down and tried to run out the door! A good tactic to not have to wait! He got his blood test straight away and was happy again within minutes. He got yet another certificate to add to his collection.
Looking forward to getting the results back!
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