i know it's not really cute but...

[Multimomma]

my heart melts when my three year old tells me her 'ex-zEEma' is flaring up. It's so cute, in a pathetic, 'help, i'm allergic to stuff' way.

We're handling the flare-up, just wanted to share. Her lil voice is so funny to be ready to advocate for herself.

[Chinese Pistache]

How cute! How old is she? My 3 yr old tells everyone she's "ayergic."

[changingseasons]

Aaawwwww... I can't wait until DD starts to talk. About her exzeeema and ayergies.

[tanyalynn]

My daughter, 5, tells my son, 2, in the store, about all the stuff _he_ can't have since it has cashews or other nuts (just the x-con issue) in it, or it has chocolate and _he_ can't have that. I still can't tell if she's trying to make him feel bad--I don't think so, but it's either that or she's trying to teach him (and re-teach and re-teach).

eta--and I try to remind myself that the kids are learning to pay attention to how they feel and connect that to what they eat, and they're learning that different people can eat/not eat different foods, and it's okay.

[lil_miss_understood]

Not really cute? That is the cutest!

[Multimomma]

She turned three at the end of November. She seems much cuter than my five year old, who announces it in a Kramer kind of hand-waving, loud voiced, startled way. He's just nutso (in fact, he told everyone loudly with hands in the air at a gathering that his nickname was Nutsy, but they could call him Fire Nuts ) His way of announcing allergies is "Dontcha know I'm allergic to that? Are you tryin to KILL me?!"

[lil_miss_understood]

Originally Posted by Multimomma

She turned three at the end of November. She seems much cuter than my five year old, who announces it in a Kramer kind of hand-waving, loud voiced, startled way. He's just nutso (in fact, he told everyone loudly with hands in the air at a gathering that his nickname was Nutsy, but they could call him Fire Nuts ) His way of announcing allergies is "Dontcha know I'm allergic to that? Are you tryin to KILL me?!"

That sounds like ds1.

[Theloose]

And my poor dd is 25mo, but will tell me what has salicylates (can YOU pronounce that?) or amines, or will make her tummy hurt. So cute in a melt my heart and put a fire under me to fix it sort of way

[Chinese Pistache]

Originally Posted by Multimomma

She turned three at the end of November. She seems much cuter than my five year old, who announces it in a Kramer kind of hand-waving, loud voiced, startled way. He's just nutso (in fact, he told everyone loudly with hands in the air at a gathering that his nickname was Nutsy, but they could call him Fire Nuts ) His way of announcing allergies is "Dontcha know I'm allergic to that? Are you tryin to KILL me?!"

[meg-momto2]

aww, that is cute. my 18mo comes up to me gently scratching her neck saying "itch, itch" and points at the lotion. it was one of the first things she could clearly communicate to me.

[redpajama]

Originally Posted by TanyaLopez

My daughter, 5, tells my son, 2, in the store, about all the stuff _he_ can't have since it has cashews or other nuts (just the x-con issue) in it, or it has chocolate and _he_ can't have that. I still can't tell if she's trying to make him feel bad--I don't think so, but it's either that or she's trying to teach him (and re-teach and re-teach).

eta--and I try to remind myself that the kids are learning to pay attention to how they feel and connect that to what they eat, and they're learning that different people can eat/not eat different foods, and it's okay.

This reminded me: My son (almost 4) and daughter (2) were upstairs playing in their room when my son called down to me: "Mom, can Lucie have, like, broccoli and carrots and other vegetables and just some rice and beans?" I was a little confused and said, "She *could*...but what are you talking about?" Turns out he was preparing her a (wooden) meal in their play kitchen, and wanted to make sure he wasn't preparing anything to which she was allergic.

[tanyalynn]

Originally Posted by redpajama

This reminded me: My son (almost 4) and daughter (2) were upstairs playing in their room when my son called down to me: "Mom, can Lucie have, like, broccoli and carrots and other vegetables and just some rice and beans?" I was a little confused and said, "She *could*...but what are you talking about?" Turns out he was preparing her a (wooden) meal in their play kitchen, and wanted to make sure he wasn't preparing anything to which she was allergic.

That's so cute. My kids deliberately make gluten bread (haven't explained that regular bread isn't normally called gluten bread) and cheese and milk. It's this odd play-defiance, which is interesting because they are very accepting of the no gluten or dairy thing, and eating differently than other people.