Taking a moment to breathe

Yes, I'm breathing now . . . Katherine and Ben are at school, and it's just me and Caroline in the house so I thought I'd take this moment to catch my blog up on Ben's life. Ben is back on the Gluten Free Casein Free diet and off of the SCD diet. He definitely seems happier, and I guess that must count for something. His BMs have been a little messed up since we went back the regular GFCF diet, but his teachers seem relieved that I've stopped messing with his diet for now. The kid chews on everything so it's hard to figure out what he's actually ingesting. Still doing the enzymes for now, and the cod liver oil, and the vitamins, and the zinc and probiotic at night. He's been eating some really good things since we did the SCD diet, I think he got desparate and so he now eats sliced up pears and clementines, two things he wouldn't touch before SCD. At school his progress report was mixed, they said his academic skills like sorting and matching were improving, but he still has almost no interest in cutting or coloring. I've made some things on the computer to work with him on that, but he's not showing much interest with me either. I can get him to point at pictures in books at home, but his therapists at school say that he won't do it for them. I've been thinking of other things I can do at home to help with his progress at school. Hopefully he'll put in some effort too!