Alanna the MegaBaby

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We had Alanna's 3 month old visit to the midwives today. We walked in and Lisa said "how are you and your toddler!" I knew she'd gained more weight, but WOW. The baby scale upstairs tops out at 20 lbs - and it wouldn't register Alanna. We weighed her on the scale they use for pregnant ladies, in the 'me alone, then me with baby, subtract' method - and she weighs 22 lbs.

TWENTY-TWO POUNDS, at 3 months. And she keeps getting longer to go along with it - she's 25.5 inches long. (She's at least 25.5 inches. They were out of the exam paper they usually lay babies on, and mark head and foot, and then measure that, which is easier.)

Leaves me wondering "can this be true?" So fordprfct just rigged a way to check on the home scale, and it says 22.5 lbs with her and the baby basket. So yeah, I think it is true.

I redid the online baby growth charts. Wow. I expected her to be off the charts. I didn't expect her to be THAT far off the growth chart.

I think we can stop trying to figure out why I'm having low back pain.
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The difficult thing is that the car seats we have for her in the two cars are rated for - up to 22 lbs. (She's too long for them, too - the straps are supposed to be above her shoulders, and they've been coming up from below for a while.) Now, we can go buy a convertible car seat, the kind that is made to be used first rear-facing and then front-facing, and those in rear facing can apparently handle up to 35 lbs. Trouble is - she doesn't sit up yet. So I've been using the car seat carrier to take her into restaurants and for the grocery carts, since she's not ready for sitting up in a cart or a high chair. This is going to be tricky to figure out.

Surely she can't keep growing at this rate. (I hear you laughing, bkseiver!) Surely she'll plateau for a while.

RAVELRY!

I Have A RAVELRY INVITE!!!

Oh oh oh I am so EXCITED!

'Scuse me, I'm going to go disappear into this as much and as long as the kids will allow...

She's one in a million, baby

I was talking earlier about Alanna's size - and fordprfct commented that we tended to be on the right side of the bell curve. I was pointing out just how far off the charts she is. So I asked selenite to figure out the statistics for me.

He says she's a six sigma baby! I asked if this meant she was one in a million? He looked it up, and told me she's one of three in a million.

I was on Ravelry before I ever got onto Ravelry!

Oh, this is COOL.

Ravelry has a listing for
patterns > designers > Laura Gallagher

and has the Fluted Banister socks I did for the Six Socks Knitalong there. Nice write up of it!

I really need to see if I can get that hat submitted to Knitty, once I can get a decent photo shoot done of it, and get it up on Ravelry too. Or maybe just take my own poor pics and give up and publish it myself.

Dear Flist - I know there are other fiber nuts out there - who else is on ravelry? I found castiron, who else can I find and friend?

Career memes

1. Botanist
Sorry, black thumb
2. Biologist
Could be great, if I had the training
3. Veterinary Technician
Vet was one of my childhood "when I grow up I wanna be" plans
4. Historian
OH yeah that'd be great
5. Zoologist
Sorta a combo of 2 and 3, really.
6.Conservator
"Museum curator" was probably my earliest "when I grow up I wanna be" plan!
7. Biological Tech
See #2
8. Paleontologist
OH yeah, oh yeah. In college, I considered it a natural pair with the anthropology classes.
9. Veterinarian
See #3
10. Taxidermist
Taxidermy is fascinating
11. Marine Biologist
Took a class in high school, was very interesting
12. Archivist
Records and libraries and books, oh my! I'm a bit surprised "librarian" didn't show up on the list.
13. Microbiologist
Took a class in college, was interested, wasn't really great at it.
14. Anthropologist
That's what my degree was in. I wanted to go into forensics. Sigh.
15. Pharmacologist
Could be good, yeah, I think I'd do reasonably well
16. Computer Support Person
That's what I did up until just before Maggie was born

I will now skip several for which the reaction was going to be "what?" "nah, don't think so" and "what is THAT?"

21. Website Designer
done that
22. Technical Writer
I used to think this wouldn't be bad, until I heard some of joyeuse13's stories

skippity

26. Forensics Specialist
Yeah, that's what I had in mind in college

34. Interior Designer
Heck no. I'd just put bookcases all over and everybody except the geeky types would hate me.

38. Computer Trainer
Did some of that at TRW, enjoyed it and would have liked to get into it more

selenite asked me about the seemingly irrelevant ones, so I read them to him. He described what
"17. Industrial Designer " would be - and apparently Natalie Wood's character in Brainstorm fits that. THAT would be cool.



The frustrating thing is, of course, that I am NOT doing any of these things. I'm home with the kids. And since I am home with the kids, I expect I won't get to do these things in the future.