Change in food, other updates

Since January - so for the past three months, V's diet has steadily changed. He still has to have a low carb diet or he won't function but I haven't been giving him his spinach goop. It all started with our being out for ten days and his growing up. He is a lot more aware of and asks for foods he knows he cannot eat. He ate salad and chicken really regularly during the travel. After coming back home, he went on this I don't want the same food and I don't blame him. So I had to figure out how to still get him his daily quota of vitamins and minerals. So I started making different variations of the chicken that he could eat and things are going well so far. The different foods he has now for lunch/dinner are as follows:
- chicken salad: chicken with a mix of lettuce, onions, carrots and cabbage
- spinach, garlic and cheese sausage
- kosher hot dog: one has to really hunt for the right kind of hot dog.
- chicken soup: I make the broth with spinach, daikon, greens as well as some spices, then add chicken to it
- plain chicken cooked in different ways - with gravy, with indian spices, with just onions, garlic.
- cheese

I also learned that lettuce is high in magnesium so it kind of makes up for him not having daikon everyday. In addition, he still has his daily quota of nuts - almonds, cashews and raisins which really helps. He still has his quota of banana (2 a day now), at least 3 glasses of milk with ovaltine and yogurt on a daily basis.

V has come a very long way with his social skills this year. He is able to play with kids, he got invited to a couple of birthday parties and he is able to carry on a sustained conversation with kids, not just adults. He continues to charm the adults which has always been a factor that hides his deficiency with regards to interacting with children.

Number sense continues to allude him. He has learned how to add, subtract, regroup and does so mechanically but he doesn't seem to have that innate number sense. Not sure when and how it will click and I will keep trying just as much as the staff in his school keep trying to work with him on the same.

V read his first big chapter book a couple of months back - Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I was extremely thrilled. If I look at how far he has come along - not knowing his letters at the beginning of kindergarten to reading a Roald Dahl in second grade - in just 2 years. That's clearly a miracle in my opinion. He is on a roll as far as reading and writing goes. He has been enjoying writing stories and I again think that this year has just been really marvellous for him - his teacher is a great match, she is accomodating, yet has him do the tasks, knowing his potential, he has been enjoying school a great deal. Things seem to be finally starting to fall in place.