MAGIC

Life after OIT...
Truly mindblowing.
What else can I say?
It's just the every day stuff most other people may take for granted.
But all this every day stuff continues to blow my mind.

So what new things have happened since my last blog post after Pesach, so just one month ago...

1. Coby was able to go to his very first every sleepover party.

2. Free cone day at Ben & Jerry's--- yes please!

3. Mikey comes home with a spare milk shake from Lazy Bean. Yes it's past Coby's bedtime and he already brushed, but he never had one before, so how could we say no?

4. He tried cracker Jacks for the first time! Just because he could.

Did he like it? Well first he tried the caramel popcorn and:

examine

smell

nope--- back in the bag it goes...

 Then I gave him a honey roasted peanut from it... and he went charging up the stairs to spew it in the garbage, and then he growled at me. It was actually hilarious- but the video is too large for me to paste here.
























5. He was able to have ice-cream during his school's Yom Haatzmaut celebration! The school was kind enough to call beforehand and triple check that it's really okay, and yes it is! Coby came home so excited about that "DELICIOUS BLUE AND WHITE ICE-CREAM!!!"

6. Shul kiddushes- eat whatever you'd like Coby.

7. Lucky Rolls--- the first kosher Thai ice-cream in America.

8. Lag Baomer barbecue, followed by Soulfarm concert, followed by roasting marshmallows. We didn't even bother to find out if there was any chance of cross contamination on the grill. We didn't read the labels on the bun bags. We didn't ask where the knishes and salads came from. No concerns at all. And we didn't need to ask to see the label of the marshmallows either.

9. His friend slept over for shabbos and brought us cookies from Trader Joe's. May it contain peanuts? Who cares! Coby inhaled that cookie!

And then there's all the regular every day stuff. It is so easy to grocery shop for whatever we want. It no longer takes 3 hours to shop since we don't have to read every last teensy tinsey word on every last label. It truly is amazing!

Truth be told we still do have occasional kinks we need to work out. For example, we tried to dose Coby with pb2 powder just twice a week instead of every 3rd day and the 4 day gaps just weren't working. He ended up with small hives over a good chunk of his body,

so for now we'll take it back to every 3 days. Something that is fairly simple to do and his body is able to tolerate.

We also had to remind him and his soccer loving friend yesterday that they had to stop playing soccer an hour before Coby dosed until the end of Shabbos which was a bit of a bummer to him, but they found plenty of other low key games to play. Again, something that is fairly simple to do in exchange for these rewards that just keep on giving.

We knew going in that there'd be some small prices to pay in exchange for OIT magic, but as we all know

What can I say?

In my eyes OIT truly is magic.