Jonathan ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
(I'm not sure why I'm obsessed with growth patterns of children in my very extended family.)
'Cuz you're all tall and stuff.
I'll tell you, though, the most commonly heard phrase at tryouts for Little League is "growth spurt" because it makes a huge difference in a kid's fastball and how far his line drives will go.
And Sara's got these incredibly long legs. She's probably going to be tall like Stephen and his sibs, and leave me the tiny frustrated person in the family, I know it.
I had really long legs as a kid. I was sure I was going to be 5'8" when I grew up. I am a good 3 inches short of that.
I think Ben just measured 5'7" at school, which startled me.
Whoa!
You're all tiny and stuff.
Right now, Em is tracking at the 40th - 50th percentile in both height and weight. So all indications are that she'll be pretty average. Leif is in the 20th-25th percentile range, so he's looking to be on the small side. It doesn't help that all his classmates are 1 to 2 years older than him too.
'Cuz you're all tall and stuff.
Mostly I just think it's interesting watching kids grow up.
It took me a long time to get used to Jake being taller than me. With Ben it's just adding insult to injury. And Sara is so big now -- just normal six-year-old size, but still -- that I can't comfortably pick her up anymore.
I'm going to go fume and shop for heels on the internets.
What is that?
It's a lethal genetic defect. She's probably five months along in the pregnancy and will carry through. Most Trisomy 18 babies die in utero or are still born.
Oh god, that's awful, Cashmere.
I'm so sorry Cashmere. That's --there are no words.
I remember having my growth spurt in 4th grade (by the end of that grade, I was around 5'3"), and stopped at 5'8" two years later.
Fourth grade was the year I also first wore a bra--first girl in my class, so I felt like a freak, just like the following year when I was the first girl to get my period.