Since Simmi can’t eat potato chips or corn chips on the GAPS Diet, Dom has been making her the most amazing alternative chips.
We slice butternut squash very thin with a mandolin, brush them with a little organic olive oil and sea salt and dehydrate them for 12 hours in the oven on the “warm” setting. Since we are up at a high altitude, it may take us a shorter time to dehydrate her chips than those living in lower elevations.
She has enjoyed her new chips so much, that we are now experimenting with apple slices and banana chips. So far she has loved them all. I want our next batches to include beet chips also.
Simmi continues to improve daily on this diet. She did go through the past last week with her back breaking out with what looked like chicken pox. It wasn’t chicken pox, but it did look like that. I think she’s just detoxing. 
The time is quickly approaching when I will be removing the rice milk from her diet. We haven’t removed it yet because I need to buy a juicer and have her work with me to make the juice. I find that when there is something I want her to eat, when she’s involved in the process, she will eat it. Whether it was a new batch of cookies or a new vegetable, it always went more smoothly getting her to try it if she was involved.
As soon as I know she’ll drink fluids other than Welsh’s grape juice and rice milk, I’ll stop buy the milk.
Yesterday she had fun blowing bubbles and hanging out on the back porch. Lately when we try to get her to come out back with us she has been objecting. Yesterday she said she was scared of Virgil (our rooster). Virgil isn’t mean or nasty ever. He gets loud with his crowing, but other than that, he’s chicken little. LOL I wouldn’t tolerate a nasty rooster and if I couldn’t get him to be nice with treats and lots of love, he’d be headed for the cooking pot. 
The other thing that I’ve been noticing is the change in the shape of her face. Her cheeks used to be set abnormally low due to not speaking very much or not speaking properly. Her cheeks are now set up higher. I’ll try to get photos of her face this week.
Here’s a boring video of her just blowing bubbles:
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