Milk moustache

Hi.

Remember me? I used to blog here pretty regularly.

Then I got all slacker-ish and lazy and no one wanted to read my blog anymore.

But take heart dear readers! I feel a period of reconnectedness coming on. Yes, that is a word. I just made it up.

But I have been busy parenting and working and watching "American Idol" for the first time. As part of that whole "parenting" thing, I discovered Jack is no longer suffering from a dairy intolerance.

Earlier this week, Josh thought we should try giving Jack a little whole milk. He hadn't had a rash in weeks and we wanted to see if he would be able to drink milk after he turns one next month.

If he couldn't handle the dairy, Josh thought it would be a good idea to keep nursing him. Now I am all for extended breastfeeding, if works for your family. But for us, I had planned to wean Jack directly to cow's milk at one year.

But with a dairy-intolerant little boy, my plan could be in jeopardy. Some people had suggested soy milk, but I just didn't think it had enough fat in it. And the babies, they need the fat. The mommies, not so much. But bring it on for brain development in the kid.

There was also a suggestion of toddler formula. But the whole point of weaning to cow's milk was to bypass formula all together. My original goal was to breastfeed for a full year and not use any formula. And so far, for 11.5 months, he's not had a drop of formula. I feel pretty good about that. But again, not anti-formula. If it works for your family, awesome.

So I took a little organic milk and gave it to Jack in a sippy cup. He guzzled it down and seemed to enjoy it. I started small -- with about 2 ounces -- and he drank it over a period of an hour or two.

Next day, same thing. Yesterday, he had a little more.

I have been checking his legs, where the eczema usually begins its crawl up his body, and we're in the clear so far.

Which makes Mommy very happy.

So for all of you who are NOT here to read about my boobs, you'll only have another month of posts about them to sit through. And really, who's not excited about the prospect of that?