Thursday, August 21, 2008

My Kiki is a Giant and I Have the Paperwork to Prove It

Today was Kiki's 18 month check up. Kate and I had a very interesting conversation on the way there. Kate: "I think we should kill a chicken for dinner." Me: "I prefer my chickens already dead." Kate: "If it is already dead then it can go to heaven and then it will come back for a body with Rusty (our dead dog). So I think you should just shoot one with a gun." We did talk about the Millenium for Family Night- I guess this is a skewed interpretation of a very abstract religious principle.

Back to Kiki: Here's the statistics: Head: 19.25 inches/96.41 percentile. Poor kid, she's obviously a Barratt. Weight: 27.34 lbs/86.81 percentile. Here's the biggie: Length: 35.5 inches/99.91 percentile. So what if she says only six words? She is using all of her energy to grow, grow, grow!

4 comments:

Melanie said...

Yeah...I have one of those kids too. Lette weighs 46 lbs and is really tall. She looks like she is 4 instead of 2.5.

Unknown said...

Maybe she'll do all her growing in the first six years of her life, so really she might be small in the long run.

Jeff and Rose said...

or maybe she'll be an American Gladiator. ha.ha.ha. I'm laughing because Jack will end up in the next series of "hobbit" movies. :)

Cheryl said...

Lani could take some pointers from Kiki. Her pediatrician said something like "I think she has gotten smaller since the last check up...have you been feeding her?" I said something like "I don't know, I do have 4 kids, maybe I forgot!" The good news is that she can say a phrase: "Oh no, what have you done!? Where did she learn that?