GFCF Day 9

I was out of town for 3 whole days, for a much needed break! DH has assured me that Ryan remained GFCF the entire weekend, even making him some banana GFCF muffins. I had left him pretty well stocked, so it hopefully wasn't that hard to do.

Today Ryan had a couple of bites of waffle with maple syrup, and a few handsful of GF cereals. I gave him the juice with valerian root in it just as he was leaving, because it seemed like he was "breaking down" around 11:30 every day at school when I was giving it to him at 7 rather than 7:40. We'll see if there is any difference.

For lunch he had PB&J, apple cinnamon rice cakes and ice water. Then he munched on some cereal for a snack. Dinner was chicken with brown rice and peas/carrots. He tried some chocolate hemp milk, but it was room temp and he thought it might be better cold. We'll try again tomorrow.

He had a pretty good day at school, teacher just said he was annoying some of the kids with his pencil. He was great after school, and I managed to get him to do 6 of his homework pages for the week (he has 15 pages total, some left over from last week), with very little resistance. We "made up" a fun new game! DH put the canvas cuddle swing from IKEA up this weekend, and Ryan loves to spin around in it. We wound him up in the swing, and as he was unwinding, we would toss a ball back and forth each time he was facing me. We did that for probably 30 minutes! And we played basketball together...he's really good!! He was pretty sad that M & L decided they didn't want to play with him, but he remained calm and didn't hit them and we discussed the fact that it might take them some time to come around to want to play again, and also sometimes other kids won't want to play what he wants right at the moment he wants it. It's a hard concept for him to grasp, and he was really upset about it. He did end up having a meltdown in the early evening, but once it was over he was happy and cheerful again, even trying to help us get the tantrumming twins to bed.