Monday, December 15, 2008

Fat Bottomed Girl

We just had Matilda's four-month checkup on Friday, December 12. One would never think that such a chunk of a baby could have come from my petite little wife, but it is true--we have a heifer child. We are practicing telling her that it is okay to be portly, since obesity is undeniably her density. (<--Intentional spelling error for comedic effect. Geez, do I really have to spoon-feed you people everything?)

After the doctor used a pulley device and two nurses to haul her lardness onto the scale, she broke it. They eventually had to bring out two scales and weigh her half at a time. When all was said and done, she weighed 11.02 pounds (5th percentile) and was 23 inches long (1oth percentile). Her 5-day younger cousin, Andrew, is going to have some catching up to do if he does not want to forever live in the literal shadow of our tubby Tilly. I heard that last week his parents had him weighed, and he weighs under 17 pounds. I guess some kids are just small.

Enjoy the video.

4 comments:

KVB said...

Yeah, we have a fat bottomed girl too. She was a whopping 18 lbs at 1 yr, 21 lbs at 2 years. She still can fit into 12 month clothes, although, they are very short (she's 3 now)

Tilly is a cutie!!

Leslie said...

She adorable!!!!!

Abraham and Sara said...

sweet and petite! i am pretty sure pj was 11 pounds by the end of her third week of life. now that is a true fat bottom girl!

Josh and Kelly Merrick said...

But she was so tiny when I held her two months ago!