Growth spurt or growth hormones? You decide
I have always light-heartedly poked fun at the hubs, who is 5'10", for being a "shorty". He vehemently points me towards web statistics showing that he is several inches taller than the average male, but I come from a house where boys are tall. My dad is 6', my brother is 6'2". This fun-poking naturally extends to Isaac, Dada's near-clone, for whom pants waistbands have always fit, but pants legs have always required rolling up.
Isaac has recently and clearly undergone a growth spurt. Suddenly pants that fit him to a tee a month ago are so flood-worthy that they are embarrassing to wear out in public. His socks and shoes are getting tight. His toes are threatening to spill out the top of sandals that we bought him two months ago, when you couldn't see his toes under the straps (that's more than a 1/4". Seriously). Even his top half seems to be expanding in certain directions. His sleeves are all getting shorter, but his precious buddha belly appears to be shrinking.
When Isaac started drinking whole milk around his birthday, we decided that we would fork out the little extra for him to drink organic milk. In Seattle, organic milk is freely available and not too much more expensive than normal milk. In Delaware? That stuff is for independently wealthy hippies. Approximately one month ago, my favorite grocery store, the totally ghetto one where everybody goes to redeem their food stamps, was out of organic whole milk and I bought normal, hormone-infested cow's milk for my child to drink. When he ran out, organic milk was back at the store, but 40 cents higher, for a grand total of $4.39 for a half-gallon. This is versus $3.89 for an entire gallon of hormone-infested whole milk. My frugal side took over, and he's been on the cheap stuff ever since. After a month of continued exposure to normal-people milk, my kid is sproutin'. Coincidence?
Isaac has recently and clearly undergone a growth spurt. Suddenly pants that fit him to a tee a month ago are so flood-worthy that they are embarrassing to wear out in public. His socks and shoes are getting tight. His toes are threatening to spill out the top of sandals that we bought him two months ago, when you couldn't see his toes under the straps (that's more than a 1/4". Seriously). Even his top half seems to be expanding in certain directions. His sleeves are all getting shorter, but his precious buddha belly appears to be shrinking.
When Isaac started drinking whole milk around his birthday, we decided that we would fork out the little extra for him to drink organic milk. In Seattle, organic milk is freely available and not too much more expensive than normal milk. In Delaware? That stuff is for independently wealthy hippies. Approximately one month ago, my favorite grocery store, the totally ghetto one where everybody goes to redeem their food stamps, was out of organic whole milk and I bought normal, hormone-infested cow's milk for my child to drink. When he ran out, organic milk was back at the store, but 40 cents higher, for a grand total of $4.39 for a half-gallon. This is versus $3.89 for an entire gallon of hormone-infested whole milk. My frugal side took over, and he's been on the cheap stuff ever since. After a month of continued exposure to normal-people milk, my kid is sproutin'. Coincidence?
posted by Claire at 6:41 PM
2 Comments:
Go Issac! I say the shrinking tummy and toning and growing is because he has become 'He Who Just Learned How To Run Really Fast.' He is burning calories faster and stretching upward, plant-like toward the sun. He is approaching 2 isn't he. Becoming a Real Live Boy. :) Love the pics - esp the pumpkins. Looove boys with pumpkins!
Hmmm that does make you go Hmmm. But I can totally relate over here with Jack. Suddenly everything is too short, too tight and I am seriously thinking of going consignment shopping for the next round of clothes. I bought the last round mostly on ebay, but even that is expensive! Ya know I know believe them when they say it takes a billion dollars to raise a kid!
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