Pancake Breakfast

This weekend we hit the Tualatin Crawfish Festival Pancake Breakfast. This was a major treat for Gabe, as those of you who've heard me talk about the GAPS diet we're doing - pancakes are definitely not GAPS! But I was going to be headed off to a day long team meeting, so I figured if Gabe freaked out, it would be a good experience for John in understanding why I'm so committed to GAPS...  In the end they had a fab day, so I think that doing the GAPS is really starting to help heal our guts!

We hit the pancake breakfast at 7:30 when it opened, so our main company were a few of the hardcore boaters and the runners who were going to participate in a 5K race. Ben was fascinated by these folks who were RUNNING down the street early in the morning - how cool! We got through the race line up area and into line for pancakes. Ben was jumping up and down frantically screeching, "Pancakes, please!" repeatedly. The gal serving told him that he needed to eat some eggs and bacon too for protein. Ben replies, "Yes, it's very important to eat your protein." Guess the GAPS discussions are rubbing off on the kids...and he flabbergasted that gal going from crazy monkey to serious dietitian in a split second!

Everyone enjoyed their pancakes of course. They were small, so it probably wasn't such a huge excursion on the diet front as we had worried...and it was so nice to be sitting outside, enjoying breakfast by the lake. We'll certainly go back next year. Max was just thrilled they had Bacon - it's one of his favorite foods. Maybe one of these years Ben will be a runner too!