Mr. Meh got large

Last Thursday evening my parents took Ivan to stay with them for two days. I next saw him on Saturday morning. He seemed noticably bigger and definitely heavier. It's amazing that babies can change so much. Literally overnight.

He's been a finicky eater for the last few months. He doesn't seem to be eating a lot. But since he consistanly poops between 1 and 3 times a day, something is going in and is being digested.

That said, on Saturday he ate like a champ. He had the usual cereal in the morning. For lunch, he had "grandfather soup," a ymmmy soup (sans water) my dad makes for him (cooked veal with potatoes, celery, carrots, onions. It's actually really good.) and which he often doesn't want to eat. (Even at this young age, he seems to have discovered a preference for sweets)

Then, in the afternoon, we made an impromptu trip to York for Andy's father's birthday. It had been a while that we had done any spur of the moment decisions like that one. At first I feared it would be a big hassle, but it actually turned really nice.

We went to a steak restaurant with the other set of grandparents (Andy's parents) and Andy's grandfather. Ivan ate so much that I feared he would explode.

Following some "appeasement" Cheerios, he had 1/2 slice of bread, shredded cheese from the salad, finely diced tomatoes (ate all the tomato that came on the salad), 1/2 cup of rice and a whole baked sweet potato. During the evening he then drank some 8 oz of milk.

I really thought the boy would explode. He didn't. He just pooped a lot of Sunday. (Including the sweet potato....the poop color and consistency revealed that fact).

Since this eating binge, he's been back to eating normal, i.e. being finicky and on the run (too busy to sit down and eat).

He still continues being large. He really sprouted and pudged out over the weekend.

On Friday, we are going for his 15 month appointement. I'm so curious how much he weights and whether he's moved up from being in the 25th percentile. I would thinks so. But then again I thought so before his 12 month appointement as well (he went through a noticable spur when he was about 10-11 months old). Yet, when they measured him at 1 year old, he was still in the 25th percentile.