I am slowly going CRAZY!!

      So we thought last week that we may have figured out a solution to some of Judah's problem. He had a bad day the Sunday before Easter. Then during the week in my conversations with a few other mothers I landed on what I thought his problem might be. On that Sunday he had been given some 'Cadbury Mini-Eggs" to eat. Because of his reaction and based on what other people told me about their children I thought that we might be dealing with a allergy. Specifically to food coloring. The worse one I heard is one called Tetrazine. Which, you guessed it, is a ingredient in Cadbury Eggs. I was living in this little happy place where we had figured something out with my little angel. So we decided to take some action. I'm not sure if you can test for a food coloring or Tetrazine allergy. So we thought we would try some tings on our own at home. We have decided to keep our diet normal for two weeks and just chart his behavior. Then we will take all food that contains colour out of our diet for two weeks and see it there is any behavioral changes. After that we will slowly start to introduce things again to see if we can figure out what might be bothering him. It seems like a good plan. So we returned home from Easter weekend and started to keep track of everything that went in his mouth and his behavior during the day. My thought process has gone something like this...

     "Yay! We figured it out. This is so going to work. I'm dreading the diet change and the job of finding new things to buy that don't have colour in them, but if this work then it will totally be worth it."

     I was skipping around living in some dreamland where I thought maybe, just maybe living with my monster would be a little bit easier. Unfortunately Judah has his own thought process, complete I'm sure with some kind of evil laugh. It goes something like this;

     "Ha, Ha, Ha. They think they are so smart. They think that they can figure me out. Ha, Ha, Ha. I'll show them that I'm the one in control here. No way that they can beat my mastermind. I can keep them spinning in circles. Ha, Ha, Ha."

     So we have been charting our diet and feeding him normal things. All kinds of horrible thing that contain colour, like Mac & Cheese, Pudding, Cheddar Cheese etc. All week long we've been watching and writing. And Judah, well Judah has been a complete angel this week. Yep, just like a normal child. Weeks like this make us thing that maybe we have been overreacting, maybe it's not him, it's us. Oh the child makes me crazy. And how bad is it that I'm annoyed and frustrated that he has had such a good week.

     Oh well, onto week two of charting food. Except I think I'll step it up this week. More Mac & Cheese, and more pudding, more BBQ sauce, bring on the gummy candies and the Cadbury eggs. I need to know that I wasn't imagining thing, and he was reacting to the food.

     I'll let you know how it goes.