We can usually tell when the Cutlet is about to start growing. He'll eat and eat and eat, then stop eating for awhile and sleep a lot. After yesterday, I'm waiting for him to fall into deep hybernation and then emerge from his room, hitting his head on the top of the door frame. If we'd had more food in the house, he probably would have eaten it.
The Cutlet's Thursday Menu
Breakfast
• Granola bar
• A piece of processed cheese
• Monster Truck fruit snacks
• A cookie (I caved. Bad Daddy!)
• Some apple juice
• Then he starts asking for a "yogurt bar," which is a granola bar with yogurt on it. Thankfully, we didn't have any.
• I left the room for a few minutes and I hear the refrigerator open. He found the grapes! He ate ALL of the remaining grapes, must have been more than a dozen of them.
Lunch
• An entire apple
• A peanut butter sandwich (he ate the whole thing, including the crust)
• Another cookie (Why stop now?)
• He wanted an orange, but he ate the last one the day before. And I'm talking a huge-gantic navel orange. Just about all of it. By himself.
• He also wanted some more Fruit Snacks, but that's about enough of those already!
• Two cups of milk.
Dinner
• He actually said he wanted some, but lunch was a little later in the day than usual. I think he might have scammed another cookie from his mother (Bad Mommy!) and a ton more milk. I think all he really ate was some corn chips.
The kid just turned 3. We thought we wouldn't have to bar the kitchen until he became a teen-ager. I don't worry about him eating so much, though, because he bounces around from dawn to dusk. He has always been active, preferring to run in circles in the back yard than sit and watch videos (which he also does, but gets up and tears through the house in between them).
Good thing today is pay day and that there's several grocery stores on the way home. I'm starting to feel hungry myself.
Sam eats alot and he just turned ten. It FRIGHTENS me how much he eats, has always eaten. I used to kid him about having a tapeworm, but secretly I worry. But Sam is just like his dad - they have an extremely fast metabolism. And Sam is a runner and loves to work his body, even at this young age. Some of it, I have to believe is HABIT. Because I tell him, you just ate THREE pieces of pizza, there is no WAY you are hungry again. I don't know. I think they'll stop eating when they're full. Or something.
About to have a growth spurt eh? Maybe that's what's wrong with me. (I somehow doubt it). ;)
My daughter was the same way, and like Cutlet would jump around all day, so she's pretty thin. Lately, she's started to eat less. I guess her growth is finally starting to slow down.
But now it's picked up again with my son. He's only one year old, and he eats like Cutlet. The other day, I he managed to open the pantry and take out the crackers. Boy was he happy. I'm terrified of what he'll be like when he gets to be a teenager. He'll be one of those boys who eats cereal out of a mixing bowl!
HOWDY!!! Hope your holidays were good! Email how things are!
Does he have a hollow leg?
The real question is: Can he eat a whole Cutlet yet?
no gummi bears? I'm shocked, shocked.
Wow! That's amazing. You must post some pictures soon of your Incredible Hulking son, bursting out of his clothes! Good luck keeping food in the house.
We are going through the same phase with my 4 year old. I can always tell when we are about to hit a growth spurt because he eats 24/7.