{"id":4553,"date":"2014-05-22T13:02:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T17:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=4553"},"modified":"2016-01-18T19:12:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T00:12:31","slug":"update-my-children-are-so-dense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/22\/update-my-children-are-so-dense\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: My Children are So Dense!"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite things I\u2019ve done to document our children\u2019s childhood was charting their growth.\u00a0 I printed out a growth chart (easily found on the CDC website or with a quick Google search) and used fancy scrapbooking brads to chart their measurements.\u00a0 I now not only have a record of how they grew, but it\u2019s an easy way to reference their approximate size at any given age and to compare their growth and also see where they are going.<\/p>\n

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(Above: Honeybun and Sugarplum’s Growth up to age 3)<\/p>\n

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Doodle had his one year well-visit at the doctor last week and all is indeed well.\u00a0 What was no surprise, though, was his growth.\u00a0 My \u201cbig guy\u201d that started life at 99% for height and 75% for weight has stayed tall but has slimmed down.\u00a0 While his height has wavered between 65% and 99%, his weight has steadily dropped off.\u00a0 At 12 months he is now 78% for height and 3% for weight.\u00a0 Concerning?\u00a0 Not in the slightest. \u00a0(It is just as I predicted in the original\u00a0“My Children are So Dense!”<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Both my girls dropped off the charts (I blame my lean breastmilk<\/a>) and Sugarplum stayed under 5% on her weight until she was 2 \u00bd.\u00a0 Our doctor has never concerned because all the kids have met their milestones when they should and have always been very healthy, he also always makes a point to note that hubby and I are both tall and thin so that\u2019s probably just how our kids are going to be.<\/p>\n

What does still catch me off guard, though, is how big he is compared to the girls.\u00a0 Even at 3% on his weight, he still weighs more than Sugarplum did at 18 months!\u00a0 And if he stays on his current growth track, he will hit 3 feet tall a full year before Sugarplum did (and 6 months before Honeybun).\u00a0 I know I can\u2019t compare apples to oranges (or in this case boy to girls) and I have to constantly remind myself he is going to be bigger overall just because he\u2019s a boy!\u00a0 Only time will tell though, when he will outgrow his sisters both on height and weight!<\/p>\n

Fun fact: there is exactly 11 pounds separating each of my children right now (Doodle=18 pounds, Sugarplum=29 pounds, Honeybun=40 pounds!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite things I\u2019ve done to document our children\u2019s childhood was charting their growth.\u00a0 I printed out a growth chart (easily found on the CDC website or with a quick Google search) and used fancy scrapbooking brads to chart their measurements.\u00a0 I now not only have a record of how they grew, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4560,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/4560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}