Peanuts!

Today we are celebrating peanuts! Quite appropriately, as I just discovered that March is, in fact, National Peanut Month. Why are we celebrating peanuts? Because Garrett is officially no longer allergic to peanuts! Earlier this month we were able to do a scratch test for peanuts and for common tree nuts & seeds for the first time. Everything turned up negative except peanuts, but a follow-up blood test for peanuts came back as negative. So with those results, we were able to do a food challenge with him, which is basically this: Take him to the hospital and feed him some peanut butter and see what happens. Happily, nothing did. So, his allergist gave us the ok to include peanuts in his diet, and even encouraged us to do so. I must say, it feels a bit strange and worrisome to do so after two years of being so careful. But he assured me that it is virtually unheard of for someone to outgrow the allergy and later get it back. We're very thankful that he is one of the lucky kids who outgrew it. And how will we celebrate? Jim has a long list of peanuts and peanut containing food he is itching to pick up on the way home from work. Mmmm reeses cups :)