Growth Spurt

In retrospect, regaling the boys with tales of Summer camp on Lake Champlain highlighted by trips to the original Ben & Jerry's to tackle the Vermonster with my bunk mates could only have been seen as a challenge by your all-american ten year old. After all, I only told them about the free T-shirts we got for consuming a scoop of every single flavor Ben & Jerry's made in 1985 and not about the all night bathroom visits that followed.  In the end, I could only blame myself when Thing2 spotted the Ben & Jerry's store on Church street in Burlington and began mentally planning a scaled down version of the Vermonster for one - after a healthy lunch of course. But it was vacation -- however small, and I let him get two scoops of Fully Baked in a chocolate dipped cone if only to prove to him that, despite the start of a new growth spurt, his stomach hasn't outgrown his eyes or his imagination.