The thing about growth spurts is

your child puts away more food than you would ever think possible. This is what Tate ate today.

Breakfast - 6 oz. of milk, 1 whole banana waffle w/blueberry fruit spread, 2 snack-size containers of mandarin oranges.

Snack - 1 package of Gerber fruit snacks and 6 oz. of water (with a splash of apple juice for flavor!)

Lunch - 1/2 a jar of Gerber green beans, 2 whole pieces of cheese toast (Chris calls it Cheese Dream - yuck!), 2 slices of ham, 1 whole kiwi and about 20 cheerios.

Snack - about 20 cut up pieces of mango, more cheerios and a drinkable yogurt.

Dinner - The rest of the green beans from lunch, plus another 3/4 of a jar, 1 lunch size container of mini raviolis, about 40 green grapes cut up into pieces and about 15 cheddar snack crackers.

I have no idea where he hid all of this food, but it all went in his mouth and none of it came back out. (At least out of his mouth!)

After all of this food, I fully expect NONE of the new clothes I bought him last week to fit him tomorrow when he wakes up. In fact, I'll probably find that his pj's have burst off of him (a la the Incredible Hulk) when I go to get him out of bed in the morning.

The other thing about growth spurts is the sleeping. I put Tate to bed at 6:30 last night as he just couldn't keep his eyes open any longer and he slept straight through, without so much as a peep until 7:30 this morning. Amazing. Too bad he doesn't do that every night!