We had AJ's one year checkup today, and he still continues to be a big boy for his age. He is up to 33 and 3/4 inches, which puts him off the growth chart for height, and he is 27.5 lbs, which puts him in the 95th percentile for weight. Frankly, I was surprised that he didn't weigh more, because he has been eating like a 16 year-old boy lately. On Sunday he ate three breakfasts--yogurt and cereal with me at home, half a bagel with cream cheese and a whole banana at a bagel shop and then a blueberry pancake and a whole piece of Canadian bacon at an impromptu Father's Day breakfast with his Chicago grandpa. The waitress at the pancake shop even said to us out of the blue "What a good little eater you have! Don't worry--he will thin out once he starts walking. Mine did."
When I got him home, his little tummy looked distended, but he was happy. And he wanted lunch on top of all that.
Other than the height and weight, everything looked normal at the doctor's office with the exception of the 101.5 degree temp that he was running. I knew something was up when AJ's nanny, K., told us that he had taken a two hour nap. The pediatrician says it looks like the onset of a virus that is just beginning to reveal itself. I think AJ just managed to pull a Ferris Bueller prank knowing that the temperature would get him out of having two immunization shots.
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