This week Alex had his 18 month well baby checkup. I was half expecting them to call Sally Struthers on me because Alex is beginning to look like a starving child from one of those Christian Children's Fund commercials. When they weighed him, he'd only gained 1 pound in the last three months and actually went down to 7% (I had been so proud to have gotten him to 8% at his 15 month checkup).
The doctor wasn't concered about his weight one bit. Showing me his growth chart, he is growing at a normal "Alex Dillier" rate. He's just an active little boy with a fast metabolism who happens to be a picky eater. Since he's developing perfectly on schedule in all other areas physical and developmental she told me to "Stop stressing out about it and give him a multi vitamin".
So I bought these:
He LOVES them. So much so that it appears to be almost painful for him that he only gets one every day. Every morning after he gets his one gummy vitamin, the rest of the day is like this:
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