So Tuesday morning, bright and early, it was time for the Snarklet's 2 month peds appointment. All weekend long people had been asking me how much he weighed, and I was saying, based on the charts and what size clothes he was into, probably about 11, 11 and a quarter pounds.
Ha ha. Ha ha ha. Um, no.
The books cheerfully inform me by his 8 month birthday he should probably weigh two to two and a half times his birthweight. This would put him at 15 to 18 pounds. Ladies and gentlemen, at two months- a full half year before he is supposed to hit that mark- he is thirteen and a half pounds. He weighs more than the biggest sack of flour I can buy at the store! He weighs as much as the freakin turkey I make at Thanksgiving! Given what percentile he is, if I follow this curve out, he will break the twenty pound mark by October.
If he were to stay at this growth rate- which he won't, he physically can't- he would pack on another 20 pounds by his first birthday. For those of you who are math geniuses, if he were stay at this clip, he would weigh 58 pounds by age 2. No wonder I'm whipping up formula every time I turn around. The child is the giant entire spaceship munchie munchie alien thing from Star Trek! I fully expect to walk into the nursery one fine morning and hear him saying 'Hulk SMASH!'
I don't need to sign him up for Mommy and Me. I need to sign him up for sumo training.
Posted by chicagowench at July 11, 2003 02:58 PMSo, you're seeing child wrestling in Sean's future?
Posted by: Jennifer on July 11, 2003 06:12 PMhttp://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_798926.html
Posted by: Jennifer on July 11, 2003 06:12 PMDude! You're going to be on Montel or Jenny Jones with the megababies, aren't you?!
Posted by: blaugirl on July 11, 2003 10:03 PMI just visited my eight-month-old cousin for the first time—she's huge. About the same size as another cousin of mine, who is fifteen months old. It's absolutely astounding.
The doctors have assured the parents that it doesn't mean she's growing to be 12 feet tall by the time she stops growing.
Posted by: Maggi on July 12, 2003 06:24 PMHe doesn't look too big to me. Trev weighed in at 17 lbs at 4 months. That put him in the 90th percentile for weight. I thought, "wow, what a fat kid". Then I met the little boy across the street.
He's 7 months old and weighs 25 lbs. He's huge. He has one tooth and apparently he uses that to gnash fried chicken and corn on the cob. I guess that explains the weight thing, eh?
Posted by: tandis on July 14, 2003 09:22 AMWow, Tandis, they're going to have to break through the wall and use a piano lift to get that kid to school on his first day.
Sean, I'm sure, will walk out under his own power, clutching the Empire State Building in one vast paw.
Posted by: kismet on July 14, 2003 12:12 PM