Over the past few weeks from Thanksgiving to Christmas, Brooklynn has visited 3 great-grandparents, 4 grandparents, three aunts, two uncles, four cousins, and a whole slew of additional extended family. And I think if it were up to her, she would do it all agin starting next week. That would be nice if it worked that way.
Of course, she’d also want us all to just play blocks and sleep in one big room, so we’re really not soliciting firm ideas from her at the moment.
When I was in school, I was good at math. I’d dare say (at the risk of coming off a little egotistical) I was really good at math.
How things change…
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8 * 6 = 48, not 64. That only took me about 7 seconds, or over 10% of my allotted time. In my defense, the students only have to get a 70% to pass, so I was being held to a higher standard. Something about Rhiannon remembering how I think I’m good at this sort of stuff or something…
It’s hard to believe that we’ve already had Brooklynn for six weeks. She’s grown up a lot in that time, enough that I look back at some of the early pictures of her and wonder who that tiny frail thing is.
During pregnancy, comparing the size of the fetus to produce to get an idea of size is a common practice, but it seems like that stops once the baby is born. I suppose this is mostly because you can actually see and hold a baby, but they come in all different sizes. Birth weight for Brooklynn is four weeks for some kids, and we won’t even go into the size of her cousin Jacoby.
Just to give you an idea of how she’s doing, Brooklynn is bigger than a pineapple…
…but not as long as a peacock feather.
She is (as of this evening) 23 inches and 11 pounds, 3 ounces. I’m still using my home brew baby scale which is much more accurate than any real baby scale less than $100. My second option would be to take her to the grocery store and put her in one of the produce scales for fruit and veggies. Maybe the people at the deli counter would help me out with some of their scales.
For now, I’ll stick to my kitchen scale – mixing bowl – cookie sheet combo.
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