It's All About the Boy...

Well now it's time for the much anticipated and now seriously belated birthday post!

Our first born, only son, first person to ever call me "mommy", turned 7 years old earlier this month. May 5th to be exact. Yes, he is our Cinco de Mayo baby and he loves the fact he has his birthday on that day. He has informed me that he has to like tacos more than anyone else in our family because of it...ahem...he pretty much eats more of them than anyone else in our family...but I digress.

On his special day I arranged for Abby to have a playdate with a friend from her class after school so I could take Max a special lunch at school. I also arranged for a sitter for Lucy and Ruby so I could have some special mommy-son time with my little (yeah right) guy.

His request for lunch was...of course...Taco Bell! He ordered...and ate...the following:

2 hard taco supremes, 2 chicken soft tacos, an order of nachos with cheese sauce, and cinnamon twists. I also figured I'd better bring him some fruit so I picked up some strawberries from the store and he had about 6 or 7.

For dinner he picked another favorite place of his to go to...Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries! I think he has picked that place for his birthday dinner for the past 3 years! Nana and Papa joined us again as well :) Max ate some peanuts while he waited then proceeded to polish off his bacon cheeseburger with mayo, lettuce, tomato, and pickles as well as his share of french fries dipped in malt vinegar. I don't know why we were shocked but my mouth about dropped to the floor when Max came up to us and requested ANOTHER BURGER!!!!! We got it thinking he wouldn't finish it and I'd put the rest in his lunchbox the next day...nope...ate.every.bite!

Then he came home and ate a cupcake :p

My boy must have hit a growth spurt on his birthday.

He went today for his 7 year checkup.

He measured 52 1/2 inches (4 feet 4 1/2 inches) tall.

He weighed 69 pounds (he was 8 lbs 13 ounces at birth).

His Dr. said he was in the 95th percentile for height and weight. The dr. also said Max has the height age of a 9 year old and the weight age of a 10 year old. Look at this kid...he may be a "big boy" but he looks like a string bean. He is all muscle and bone.

No wonder he's always moving (and eating!) ..his metabolism has a life of it's own :)

There is a "height predictor" calculator on the Baby Center website. I plugged in Max's info and it is predicting that at age 18 he will be 6 ft. 3 in. tall.

The website says that it is within 50% that he will be within .8 inches of that measurement and within 90% that he will be within 2.1 inches of that measurement.

We had his birthday party the Saturday of Mother's Day weekend...that';s another post coming soon.