Growth Spurt Appreciator Gifts

"Remember how short and stout she was back in high school?"

'I think we took a wrong turn between the seventh and eight holes.'

"Would you like any suburbs, or just the check?"

"There's definitely enough growing room."

Jumbo in Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck

"An economic downturn has forced one company to become leaner and meaner! Even shutting down the office rumour mill, and throwing 27 people out of work!"

"He's grown a whole foot since the last time you saw him."

Snowman

"Are you binge watching again?"

Deadpan Delivery.

'No, but next week, the fireworks start in earnest.'

'Right, I'll see the chap who thinks he's a fly next.'

'And she's got the gall to call me chubby.' - Hubert's comment on a pregnancy.

"Boy needs bigger tire."

"Jack and Nina's concern grew when their son, James, confided in them that his imaginary friend was, in fact, a short-tempered snapping turtle."

The Headless Horseman in May.

"Remember when he was little and we couldn't get him to eat? Now he never stops!"

'It always makes me melancholy when the robins start migrating south.'

"How do we increase that boy's gas mileage?"

'Honestly, they grow so quickly these days.'

'Get off and milk it!'

Unfortunately for Gronk, in the limited caveman language 'Help' and 'Looks like rain' sound identical.'

"Obviously we'd have loved to help, but there were so MANY other calls on the public purse!"

"I don't jump on the countertops to annoy you. That's just a nice bonus."

"Vocabulary lesson. Billy Corey taught me the meaning of the word trouble."

"You're still eating?"

"If I had to guess I'd say your son's acne is the result of a sudden surge of hormones."

'I may not know much about art, but I do know what I like. Have you heard me purr yet?'

"Believe me, son, you'll grow up fast enough. . . you don't need to check your height EVERY DAY!"

'You will spend the winter shoveling snow.'

'You're going to get bigger.'

'Unfortunately sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel isn't all it at first seems...''

'Oh, I know I'm not very popular son: Many people resent being woken up at dawn...'

"Oh, look, honey. It's the blue-crested, red-winged, wake-you-up-at-4-bloody-a.m.-every-Sunday bird!"

"Hey Ned, tell your ironmonger I like his sense of humour"