August 27th, 2007 by Jemaleddin Cole

I took Jared to see his neu­rol­o­gist today, and got him offi­cially weighed and mea­sured. At 7 years, 7 months, he’s just under 91lbs and just over 4′5″. That puts him in the 90th per­centile for height and the 98th per­centile for weight. He was play­ing with another 7-year-old in the wait­ing room that looked like a light snack to Jared.

To rein­force his tremen­dous size, I took Jared to get some new shoes for school. We bought the last pair 4 months ago, but they were obvi­ously too small for him. So we went to a shoe store and tried to find one of those foot mea­sur­ing things. A woman with 3 girls was hog­ging the kids’ model, so we grabbed the adult one. Jared’s foot landed at 5 and a half, and I said, “That can’t be right.” An employee on a ladder came over and said, “Oh, we need the kids’ one. Hold on.” He pries it away from the other cus­tomer, and Jared’s foot covers all of the numbers.

So we go back to the adult one and Jared is right between 5 and 6. The clerk says, “Men’s shoes are in the back corner of the store.”

“There aren’t any Diego shoes in the men’s sec­tion, are there?”

“Um, no.”

So Jared left the store in some men’s Air­walk Matrix Twin Gore slip-​ons. Back at home we dis­cov­ered that Sierra, if she didn’t mind a little extra room in the toe, could totally steal his shoes if she wants to. He’s only 3 sizes behind his mother. Look­ing at him with the shoes on, his pro­file resem­bles a cap­i­tal L.

One more unde­sir­able trait that Jared will later curse me for. Good luck find­ing size 13s that you like, son.

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7 Responses to “My Giant Son”

  1. Why is it that all the men in the family wear size 13 shoes? I mean, where does that come from?

    — skank August 27th, 2007 at 6:53 pm #

  2. We’re all clowns.

    — Jemaleddin August 27th, 2007 at 8:19 pm #

  3. Your last com­ment reminds me that I have to get on the ball and have the presents I bought 2 years ago for you, Colin, Uncle Steve, and Uncle Mike framed. I don’t think this is a sur­prise, I’ve men­tioned it before. It’s pro­gram and tick­ets for The Cole Broth­ers Circus. Nice clown pic­tures.

    — skank August 28th, 2007 at 8:21 am #

  4. Did you know that you had a great, great uncle who was 6′ 7″ and billed him­self as God’s Giant? He was a trav­el­ing Bap­tist evan­ge­list in Arkansas. He led revivals held in tents all over the state. And did you know that your great grand­mother Zelma (Hug­gins) Cole was 6′1″ tall, about four inches taller than her hus­band?

    Appar­ently “giantness” runs in the family.

    — skank August 28th, 2007 at 8:29 am #

  5. Wow - I’d better start look­ing for the Big and Tall stores in our area for when Jared turns 8. =-)

    Seri­ously: we should buy the Cole Broth­ers Circus (if it’s still around).

    — Jemaleddin August 28th, 2007 at 8:45 am #

  6. Well, it’s still around.

    http://​www.​gotothe​cir​cus.​com/​i​n​d​e​x.htm

    They are in Vir­ginia most of Sep­tem­ber. Prob­a­bly not close to you.

    — skank August 28th, 2007 at 5:44 pm #

  7. Hmmmm - Ash­burn is only an hour and a half away. I know Kellie, not a fan of cir­cuses, isn’t going to be excited to go, but I’m SURE that they’d be will­ing to let us in for free if we agree to appear as circus freaks and geeks! =-)

    — Jemaleddin August 28th, 2007 at 6:17 pm #