Birthday Video

Although I haven't been making progress in terms of improving the quality of the videos that I've made over the past year as I had hoped to, I still think my videos from the past 13 months are much better than the all the videos I made in previous years. So far in 2022 I've made three videos, one for Nadia's 14th birthday, one for Oliver's 10th birthday, and one about our vacation that we took in May. The kids have asked if I would make one about Milo. I am not sure if that will happen or not, but I do plan on making at least three more videos this year - one about this summer (June through August), one for Ian's 13th birthday, and one about our vacation in September. I'm hoping that these videos will be enjoyed by our family for decades to come. I finished Oliver's 10th birthday video this morning (see below).

I also took Oliver to his annual physical this afternoon. Last year he was 54 inches tall (74th percentile) and weighed 60 pounds (40th percentile) which put his BMI at the 13th percentile. As of today, he is 56.75 inches tall (80th percentile) and weighs 67 pounds (40th percentile) which puts his BMI at the 11th percentile. The pediatrician's office last year had said they only considered a child to be underweight if they were below the 5th percentile, but we switched to a Family Practice Center this year because they only charge self-pay patients $50 a visit, and she said he was underweight. I'm not concerned about his weight. When Ian turned ten, he weighed 63.8 pounds and was 53 inches tall, which means Oliver is currently about 4 inches taller and about 3 pounds heavier than Ian was when he turned ten. The kids and I had dinner at Bonanza using a gift card Pop Pop had given us for Christmas last year. That was the final celebration of Oliver's tenth birthday! Today we began the process of gradually easing into the next school year. All three kids did math today. I'm hoping that Oliver makes a lot of academic progress this year during his second year in fourth grade.