Super Baby!

Emmett just had his two month appointment (actually 8 weeks/ 2 days) at which he suffered two vaccines and we got to confirm how much he has grown. He is 63 cm in length (about 25 inches), 5.7 kilos (12.5 pounds), and 41.5 cm (16.3 in) head circumference. This puts him in the 97th percentile for height (97 is as high as the chart goes, which attenuated our disappointment at not achieving 99!), 75th for weight, and 80th for head. The doctor kept approaching other docs and saying, "look at this cute baby; he is four months old today", to see if they would fall for it. I ruined his first experiment by correcting him. He was especially keen to see if this one doctor--a woman with three kids of her own--would blink. Needless to say, the doc was very impressed with his size. After the appointment he asked to borrow him to show him off to various administrative and medical staff. I kept hearing loud sounds of "awwwww," as he would go from room to room. It was a proud moment for all of us.

I got home and wanted to check the stats for myself, so I entered his numbers on various websites with charts. According to one website ("babycenter," or something) sponsored by Similac, his height is 90th percentile, but his weight is only 25-50th. Guess what they are trying to sell? Well, Emmers is a breast milk fueled giant. According to the international standards of the WHO, Emmett is entirely off the charts, nowhere near their top percentile. (Yet I bet he is in the middle of a Dutch or German chart.) We did find one that used metric (so probably not US based, like the Similac sponsored one) and gave us the precise stats of the doctor's office.

We are very proud of his height and his relatively lean figure, even if we are not sure how we made such a tall bearito. Everyone says that he is destined to play basketball (as his mom did in high school), but, for some reason, no one says that he is bound to look like Bill from Freaks & Geeks (and thereby play D&D instead). Bill is my absolute favorite character from the show. Needless to say, if he turns out to be a giant nerdling, he would not disappoint the hopes of his parents. If he has to be a jock, however, at least basketball is a really fun game. If he stays in Kanukistan, we hope that his hockey injuries will be minimal.