Oliver is a big boy. He’s not 2 yet, but he weighs more than Evie did when she was 3.

The other day we were at a restaurant, and an enormous guy with a voice deep enough to vibrate my sternum came over to tell us that he could tell Oliver was going to be big when he grew up, and he’d never heard a boy with such a deep voice. He went on to say that Oliver was a “little Brian Urlacher”.

Although Oliver is heavy, he doesn’t look chubby. However, we charted him on the growth curve. He’s off the chart on weight, and about 90th percentile for length. You might think that means that he’s just big, but actually if you plot his height vs. weight, he’s over the 95th percentile on that one too, which means he meets the definition for obesity.

Now, I don’t necessarily think there is a problem with his size. I think that he is built very solid, and there’s probably not much we could do to change that. I also think that kids grow at different times, and probably other kids will catch up to where he is.

Certainly, there are not many kids on this planet who eat healthier than he does. Today he ate oatmeal made with milk, mixed with applesauce, peanut powder and chia seeds and 1 – 2 oz. of milk for breakfast. For lunch he had a hard-boiled egg, 1/2 a cup of brown rice, 1/4 cup of mixed vegetables, 2/3rds of an apple, and 6 oz. of milk. For supper he had 1/2 a cup of whole wheat couscous with sauteed zucchini and chickpeas and about a tablespoon of peas, with about 2 oz. of milk, followed by 1/4 of an orange for dessert. Now, not every day is necessarily that good, but I would say this is pretty average. It occurred to us the other day that he might never have had a cookie from a package in his life, and maybe not more than 8 oz. of juice total in the almost two years he’s been around.

Biologically speaking, I have trouble believing that a kid who is eating that healthy could possibly get obese naturally. So again, I’m not really worried about it. But I guess everyone could use a little more exercise, so now that the weather is getting nice, we’re going to try to make an effort to play outside a little more.

With a little luck, our little linebacker will one day play for a better team.