the life juice (well, actually it's a smoothie)

I have been doing everything I can to add (sneak) nutrients into Samuel's food.  His appetite is small -- so I need to pack what he does eat with vitamins.  And fat.  And calories. 

(thank you everyone for all the excellent suggestions for Samuel.)

Here are some pics of his favorite berry smoothie.  Make that the entire family's fave. :)

Yes, he does actually get some of that smoothie in his mouth.

Want to know what is in his life juice?

Frozen berries, a couple handfuls of organic spinach (love Costco's huge box for $3.99), lactose free milk (they've taken Samuel off of lactose for 3months), a couple organic bananas, and powdered Kids Super Food.  Later today I'm going to pick up some protein powder (whey free) to add some more calories.  And I'm going to start adding a spoonful of organic coconut oil.

What else would you add?

(thanks Hannah for all the pics of sweet Samuel)

And I have nothing but raves for the Super Food for Kids.  My sweet relative (hard to figure out the exact connection so we'll call her my cousin in law removed somehow but yet related) Alissa picked up this fabulous powder at Whole Foods for Samuel.  He's had it every single day.

And how is Samuel doing?  Better.  He's on an antibiotic -- which seems to be helping.  We saw the pediatric allergist yesterday who told us (within 5 minutes of us meeting him) that he really believes Samuel needs to see a pediatric immunologist/infectious disease doctor.  It's scheduled now for February 22.  The goal is to get to the root of the fevers and infections and to strengthen his body so that it can heal from the Celiac Disease. His gut is so weak that his body has no immune reserves to fight off infections.

So, until then, I'm going to keep making those life juice smoothies.

Keep praying.

I'm am so grateful.

Make that mega grateful.

In fact, I've had many emailing asking if they could add Samuel to a prayer list.

Absolutely and totally yes.