It's true, kids really do seem to grow overnight. My 9-year old son is spending the summer with his dad. He lives with me 10 months out of the year and then spends the summers at his dad's childhood home about 75 miles outside the city. I see him once every two weeks. I went to see him yesterday and I swear for a moment he didn't look like my child. It seemed like he grew another inch. And his face and body are changing. Wow, when he comes back to live with me at the end of the summer I am going to have a boy that reaches almost to my chin.