Giant

So Spud is a BIG BOY. This isn’t really a surprise or anything, considering his size at birth (10 lb 10 oz, for the uninformed). But he hasn’t slowed down at all. Plus the fact that he started walking so early, and has so much hair, he just does NOT look like a 12 month old little boy. I sold a couple of baby items at Kid to Kid yesterday, and he was playing with another little boy. I’m guessing this boy was at least 12 months, as he was walking pretty well and seemed fairly equivalent with Spud as far as developmental milestones. But Spud was a good head taller, and must have had at least 15 pounds over the other little boy. I do think the other boy might have been on the small side, but it sure made Spud look ENORMOUS. The only real downside I see to it, besides my arms tiring so quickly, is that people will expect him to “act his age” which they will presume to be much older than he actually is. Noodle wasn’t nearly as large as Spud, and we got that a lot with her. Just because at age 2 she could easily wrench any toy away from a 5 year old...

I’m not sure what it is about the combination of David and me that produces these Amazon children. I guess it could tie in to the fact that we did meet in the Amazon.... (Although, did you know that the “Amazon Woman” comes from Greek Mythology, and that the Amazon in S. America was named such after explorers encountered female warriors? Knowing the sizes of Brazilian natives, the “Amazon Woman” idea seems very out of place, since they tend to be around 5 feet in height.)

But it’s good. The world can always use more tall people.