Andrews girls have big heads. And I guess I have passed that gene on to my daughter. I thought she was getting so tall, but she's only grown 1" in the past 3 months - up to a whopping 27" long (as TJ pointed out, that's 6" longer than she was when she was born!), which is in the 36 percentile. She now weighs in at more than a bowling ball - 18 lbs, only the 31st percentile, but though I forget the exact number, her head circumfrence is in the 57th percentile. Go big head!
In other words, I'm going to have to start babyproofing sooner than later. At my parents house for dinner tonight Sarah will now crawl across the floor to a table, and pull herself up on the table, regardless of the height (or the sharp corners). Just looking around our family room right now I see chairs that are unstable, tables that have sharp corners, books and game systems just waiting to be pulled on top of a little head, and plugs that are just asking for little fingers to be stuck into them. It's amazing how differently I look at a room or anything now when viewed from the perspective of a month. I may not care about germs - a binkie falls on the floor I am a firm believer in the 5 second (ok, 10 second) rule, but large heavy objects are a different store.
Lorelai is the other way around -- at birth she was above 95% for height and weight, and only 50% for head ... now, at 4 months, she's 75% for weight, 95% for height, and 25% for head.
ReplyDeleteAlso, when she gets mobile, will you come over and tell me what to babyproof? I have NO idea what to do as far as that goes.