GFCF Day 5 (Wednesday)

breakfast
GFCF pancakes from Trader Joe's mix, frozen from 2 days ago, then put in the toaster, that worked well and was super-easy
1/2 of a home-made popsicle (cran-grape, frozen blueberries, raspberries and blackberries blended)

snacks
1 1/2 apples
banana
a few grapes

Lunch
left-over BBQ chicken pieces
orange slices
a little cran-grape with new vitamin and mineral supplement powder in it which just arrived today. She drank about 2/3 of it, then put it down and said "yucky"...not bad for day 1 of our first supplement...

Dinner
taco meat (The rest of us had regular tacos. She only wanted the meat anyway, so it worked out well)

Behavior was pretty good today. She also had an obvious language burst, mostly after dinner. She was downright chatty. One thing that she started to do was to say the less essential words like "a" and "the" in sentences, which she has pretty much always left out. For example, when Rick took a piece of her chicken off her plate, she said "Daddy, don't eat the chicken." Before it would have been "Daddy don't!" or "No chicken!" or even "Daddy don't eat chicken!" or something along those lines. She was also gesturing more than usual (waved once, pointed a lot and pretended to fly flapping her arms), smiled noticeably more and had very good eye contact. Right before she went to bed, she put on a bathing suit, spread a towel out on the ground, layed on it and said "It's the beach." That is different because she normally doesn't use "the" and I have never heard her use another contraction besides "don't". Rick noticed a lot of the same things that I have written about and Shayne even pointed out that Maya is "doing better with her talking" so I don't think I am imagining the growth.