Our pudgy boy.

And, no, I'm not talking about Eben, though he would sure fit the bill!

I'm talking about KRASSI!!! After a year in which he basically stayed the same (actually down a few ounces), he has, over the last three or four months, put on seven pounds!!! He's got the tiniest hint of pudge on his belly. ;)

After learning that he had not gained anything over a year, we re-evaluated how we were feeding him, and strategized ways we could get extra calories into him. For starters, we're just making sure that we're getting quantity into him at each meal. We aim for close to 2 cups of food instead of the one and a half that we'd been content with for a while. Additionally, we've added two snacks into his day - a pudding cup! - because we recognize that there are limits to how much we can increase the quantity at a single meal. His school has been really on board (which reminds me that I should share this happy news with his teacher, too!) They are responsible for the morning snack time, and they have an actual board on the wall in his classroom where every week they look at the school lunch menu and choose the items that they know Krassi prefers so that when whoever goes down to get his lunch (they puree it in the classroom), they know to, for example, avoid the green peppers. ;) We give him another pudding cup when he gets home, with a hefty tablespoon of whole milk powder in it for extra oomph, and then he's got time to digest that before supper time.

Apparently it's working.

Here's a picture his teacher sent from a few weeks ago.

Shaving cream! What fun! We can smell it on him on the days they play with it at school. ;)