So I got an email from one of my favorite students today and she wrote the coolest baby analogy that I thought I would share:
'I remember being a kid and seeing Polaroid pictures develop for the first time--the blank page, and then a shadowy image, and then a picture I could recognize but with odd colors, and then the real image. Is it like that with a baby--that you see her getting more and more aware of her world and becoming more and more of a personality as each day goes by? I bet it is exciting!'
I thought this was absolutely perfect--and such a great visual. It's also a good analogy for how her vision is going from total blur of next to nothing to being able to see everything in the world around her as time goes on (which is cool for an optometry student too)!
And now for an Evie story and fun fact. Here's the story:
Evie is wearing a cute new outfit from Nana today that came with little soft shoes that are a smidge big on her for now. Mommy is driving along and at a stop light looks back and sees that Evie has managed to kick off her shoe, pick it up with her left hand and has it stuffed in her mouth. That's three different tasks combined together to eat one shoe--and seems pretty crazy that she managed to coordinate this landmark event at 3 months!
And now for the fun fact: Evie weighs about 14 pounds (I weighed her on our scale at home with me holding her, then weighed me so this isn't 100% accurate). I need to measure her still too. Apparently mommy weighed 17 pounds....when she was one year old! I think Evie is going to be bigger than her mommy was, for a while at least.
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I think she may be following her dad's growth patterns. I looked things up in his baby book. I don't have an entry for 3 months...but at 2 months 12 days he weighed 14 lb 15 oz (24.25 inches long) and at 4 months he weighed 18 lb 1 oz (26 inches long.) At one year he weighed 25 lb 8 oz (31.5 inches long.)
I'm not surprised by the shoe escapade...she is really a smart girl (in my completely biased opinion!)
Love the polaroid analogy!
Oops! I'm not anonymous...I'm Nana!
Evie is 25.5 inches long and may only be 13.5 pounds--I reweighed her. The growth chart for male/female is different so they are probably same percentile (90%) even if he was weighing more at her age.
I am thinking she will be too big for her infant car seat sooner than anticipated!
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