Pink 'n Blue Make Two: How Big Is Emily? . . . Soooooo Big!

Once again it is time to discuss how big our little girl is getting. Her doctors appointments, at least the scheduled ones, are getting further apart as she gets older, so we don't have that monthly update anymore. On the upside, she only had one shot & a little blood test this time, and there were NO TEARS!!

Also on the no tears front, she also stopped crying when she gets dropped off at daycare this week (only the occasional whimper, but her heart just isn't in it anymore); which shows growth as well, and is much easier on Christa. I am guessing by now that you are thinking that I will give you a long list of things that are smaller and/or larger than Emily before I tell you the news you are looking for, and guess what you are RIGHT!, imagine that. So here we go, what is bigger, heavier, smaller, and lighter than Emily?

Things that are lighter than Emily: 5 lb bag of flour, 10 lbs of feathers, and Nadezhda Khalina (a recent Russian newborn) 17 lbs, 1 oz. Things that are heavier than Emily: the largest ball of twine in Minnesota 17,400 lbs; the Airbus A380 1,300,000 lbs. On Thursday night, Emily weighed in at 17 lbs, 15 oz (just a hair under 18 lbs). She is just under the 50% for weight.

Things that are shorter than Emily: an inchworm, 1 inch; a q-tip, 7.6 cm; a sugar snap pea pod, 3 inches; and a ruler, 12 inches. Things that are longer/taller than Emily: a yardstick, 36 inches; the famous "dot" painting . . . A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, by Georges Seurat, 6.81 ft x 10.11 ft; Michelangelo's David, 17 ft; Auntie Mandy's feet, ?; and the Airbus A380, 239.5 ft. On Thursday night, Emily's official height was measured at a whopping 29 inches!! This puts her in the 90% for her height.

With us as parents, who knows where she gets these tall/skinny genes, but we're really glad for her sake that she has them; at least she has them for now.