Easter when you can't eat choc...

As you can guess from the title we had an interesting Easter this year!
Last year T really didn't mind too much about the fact that he can't eat chocolate - dairy AND soy allergies. He was rising 2 and it didn't register too much.

But this year he's coming up 3 and he knows when he's missing out totally. He doesn't mind if he has something different, so long as he has something!

Easter Sunday morning the older two started the morning eating an entire choc bunny each - (Persil has a 10 things a kid should do before 10 and describes these as rights, I quibble with the "rights" issue) but I think there's no point in being a kid at Christmas and Easter if you can't start the day with sweets/chocolate!! And I left out 9 gummy snakes for T (who in true form only ate 8).
So T was happy with that.

We got through church - very crowded and we were late and unable to sit in our usual seats. That upset W a little and T had no space to play but we got through it! Then they announced an Easter Egg hunt for the kids after church - @#$%!!! If only I'd known I'd have brought something for T!!

T threw a major tantrum and he wasn't the only one sitting upset in the church foyer. There were a couple of other kids unable to eat the choc and one who couldn't even go out where the kids were hunting and then eating because of the risk of nut traces. They had to leave once other kids started to come into the foyer!

Why, why, why can't people think a little about food allergies? It's not difficult - some gummy bears or snakes to quietly give to the kids who were allergic would work nicely - avoiding egg, dairy, soy, wheat (in many choc eggs) and nut problems! The numbers of food allergic kids are rising and it's taking longer for them to grow out of it so everyone has to get with the plot eventually!