Allergies? Already??

About 3 weeks ago, as soon as Chase turned 4 months we began trying rice cereal. We'd mixed it with breast milk twice and he'd had no problems eating the cereal so I decided to try mixing a little bit of formula with it. After about 10 minutes of eating the tiny bit of cereal mixed with the formula a red rash started around his mouth. Within about 20 minutes the rash had spread up his face up to his forehead and looked like he was covered in poison ivy. While I was on the phone with the on-call nurse and pediatrician I literally watched it spread all over the rest of his body. The doctor told us to take him immediately to the emergency room. So off we went to the Duke emergency room. Luckily he was fine after 24 hours of benadryl. But from that severe allergic reaction we discovered that he had what we (I mean the doctor) thought was a milk allergy. Dr. Dunk, Chase's pediatrician referred us to UNC children's allergy clinic where we went yesterday to have that allergy confirmed.
I was nervous about taking such a little guy to undergo this testing but he was a trooper. Even though it was right during his morning nap time he did really well.

Here he is squirming around on the examining table where we discovered that he was much happier than being held the whole time.

This was the tough part where they had to do the skin test. The red part that you can see here at the top of his back showed that he has a definite milk allergy. Awesome. Of all things, milk. Very strange since there's probably noone on earth who eats more cheese than me. It's very bizarre to me that he can have such an intense allergy but yet tolerate it through breast milk. I'm not asking any questions, though. Thank goodness he will most likely outgrow it. I can't imagine the poor little guy having to go through his childhood without macaroni and cheese and grilled cheese sandwiches. What would life be like without that???