Matthew Monday: Height

It’s Veterans Day today, and I’m off from work and Matthew is off from school.  This morning he passed me in the upstairs hall and did a double take.  “Am I taller than you now?” he said.  I looked at him and he did look ganglier than usual.  He stood by my side and I felt the top of our heads, and his head did ever so, lightly peak above mine.  I hated to admit it but he was now taller. 

So on the eleventh day of the eleventh month but not the eleventh hour—I would estimate the ninth hour—Matthew was officially taller than his father.  (Here, if you don’t know what that’s a reference to.)   

So what do you think he did?  Do you think he quietly just went to the bathroom as he was about to do?  Or go back to bed to sleep the morning?  Of went downstairs to have something for breakfast?  He ran downstairs screaming, “Mommy, mommy, I’m now taller than Daddy.  I’m now taller than Daddy.”

The little ….%*^$$

Here is a picture of us taken back on August 7 at an Orioles game in Baltimore.

 

As you can see I was still a hair taller.

I don’t have a picture of us side by side now but here is Matthew in Costco trying out a new coat.

 

God bless him.  God bless his growth.  May God continue to bless him.