Thursday, May 29, 2008

FATTEN YOU UP

Dear Spike:

We went to see Dr. Schriewer today. She kept calling you "peanut."

At a year and a day, you're still not quite 15 pounds, which puts you among the very smallest of babies your age.

Your mother promptly went to the store, picked up a quart of heavy cream, and put some in your bottle. For dinner, she gave you oatmeal with cream and butter. Later this week, she tells me, she's going to reprise your birthday pound cake (which, for the record included butter, cream cheese, eggs, vanilla, orange extract, flour and three cups of sugar!)

One way or another, kid, she's gonna fatten you up.

Love,
dad

1 comment:

Leann said...

My, she is a tiny little thing. She might try rice cereal if Spike is not already eating it. It can add the lbs.