right hand and allergies

I just wanted to post a couple of things, more for my own record keeping (it's not major breaking news or anything). The past 2 weeks I have noticed Eve using her right hand much more and without prompting. A few days ago, she even reached for a spoon and wanted to feed herself with her right hand. Of course, her accuracy and dexterity wasn't great, but I helped her hand over hand. Today, I made egg salad sandwhiches for lunch and she did something I've never seen her do. She grabbed the sandwhich with both hands and ate it that way. She ended up bringing her mouth to the sandwhich rather than the other way around, but it was still great to see.

That's a temp tattoo of a dog on her hand. If you click on the picture, it will enlarge and you should be able to see it.


Other things: She started taking Zantac this week for reflux. Eve has been having lots of wet burps and has been even spitting up a bit. It's only been a few days so we'll see how it goes. I also took Eve to an allergist recently. She had another breakout of hives at school, so I decided to have her looked at to see what she might be allergic to. They did a skin test for 20 different allergens (mostly food - egg whites, peanuts, almonds, shellfish, etc, but also dustmites) and only one came up positive - peanuts. So, no peanuts. Actually, he doesn't want her to have other nuts or potential allergens either, because if she had a reaction and her tongue was swelling, she wouldn't be able to tell us. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that she'll outgrow this one day years from now.