Long week of going into Boston this M, W and Th. for allergy skin patch test.  Monday he got 24 skin patch put on his back.  These are little tiny flat disc with food in them to test for a delayed allergic reaction.  They are taped onto the back and are taken off 48 hours later.  Today we met with Sam's Allergy doc who looked at his back again.   The skin patch results show "slight" reactions to chicken, oat and peanut! Those will be the last on the list of foods to trial when we start new foods again!  The chicken makes ALOT of sense as everytime we gave him chicken with rice pasta he would get sick and we kept thinking it was the rice pasta!

Will be setting up a date for a baseline scope in about 6 weeks- mid August.  If the scope and biopsies are clean we will began to introduce new foods again.  Will meet with docs and nutritionist to discuss after the scope.

I found a GREAT home daycare center for Sam where he will be starting 2 mornings a week soon with the plan of increasing to 2 full days.  One of my friend's daughters goes to the center as well so that may be helpful to Sam.  We have been doing weekly visits 2x to get him used to going there and hope to leave him for an hour in the next week to see how he does before leaving him for a morning!

Sam has been doing EXCELLENT with his ABA therapy sessions.  He's able to sit at the table and "work" for most of the session with short breaks in between and I'm able to stay in the other room or even upstairs to get some other things done.  yay!  His vocabulary is blossoming with the consistency of car, keys, outside (mostly), all done, oh no, uh oh, dada, kiki for mickey and probably a few others I'm forgetting. He says these words in the right context and associates objects correctly.  Ex:  while visiting the new daycare center- after playing there for a while he says "all done", walks over to the gate and says "car"!  yay!  I knew my child was smart!  lol!!  We are very proud of his hard work these last few mths and are excited to see him continue to grow and learn more!!! 

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