i'm tired of being woefully behind in here. so i'm just gonna jump in.

amych, i am so sorry. losing a pet can be as awful as losing a human part of the family.

Gloomcookie, ~ma for your friend.

sumi? see above.

everyone else? hi!!

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amych, I'm so sorry for your loss.

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amych, I'm sorry about Tucker.

sumi, much ~ma for your best friend's mother and for Gloomcookie's co-worker.

Owen and I had a nice playdate with a friend's daughter. She's 18 months and Owen is bigger than she is and weighs LOTS more. I feel like I'm raising a bruiser--but he's only in the 80th percentile in weight. My friend and her girls are just very petite things.

Welcome Home, Miracleborns!!! Aimee, you have email and hopefully a package, as well.

I am BabiesRUs' bitch.

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Owen and I had a nice playdate with a friend's daughter. She's 18 months and Owen is bigger than she is and weighs LOTS more. I feel like I'm raising a bruiser--but he's only in the 80th percentile in weight. My friend and her girls are just very petite things.

Oh, he's a great size, then. I like substantial babies, of course, then I see delicate babies, and also like them. I suspect I like babies.

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I suspect I like babies.

I suspect I do, too. *g* O's definitely got substance.

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Leif started out as a big baby, but now he's turned kinda petite.

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Ben was 21 inches and 7 lbs, 5 oz at birth. By age one, he was 30 lbs. I forget how tall. By age two, he was 36" and 36 lbs, which I remember, because I called my dad (who was a carpenter) and told him Ben was a square yard. Since he's outgrown both fat babyhood, and chubby toddlerhood, he's been tall and solid, but never pudgy. Just recently some pudge has crept along the waistline, but I suspect he'll have a growth spurt soon, and we'll try to dress him for school one day, just to discover all his pants end at his knees.

Julia was 21 inches and 7 lbs, 13 oz, at birth. By age one, she was 25 lbs. She was well padded as a baby and toddler, but never fat--not even chubby. She strikes me as extremely well proportioned.

I think Chris is going to be my shorty (well, I think he'll be average, but the other two are consistently between 75th and 99th percentile when I check their height at the doctor's office). He was 20.5 inches, and 8 lbs at birth. By a year, he was 25 lbs also, but around six months, we thought he'd be breaking big brother's records. He's stout, but not chubby, save a little belly that gives him a hard time, when he's trying to see to snap his pants.

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Annabel continues to be off-the-charts tall, and not fat, but broad-shouldered and sturdy. Dylan keeps speculating about her adult height, and I keep reminding him you can't tell--I was short for my age until I hit puberty, and I wound up tallish (5'8"). Average for a woman in my family is probably 5'6" or so, but one of my nieces is about 6'1" (somehow getting the long legs the rest of us missed out on), and Dylan's mom is 5'10", so there's some serious height in our gene pool.

We now think she's going to be right-handed, which is a bit of a disappointment to left-handed Dylan.

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I am all moved into my new apartment (if you don't count the twenty or so boxes of books I still have to unpack). The move went well. Teacup guy met my mother, stepfather, grandfather, and my best friend on moving day and everyone got along wonderfully. I am now stealing some time on my stepfather's computer before I go into complete computer withdrawl.

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We've started my daughter on spelling to help with her spelling and writing skills. The funny thing is that right now her little brother is better at spelling than she is.

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