Kids are awesome

[Kidlicious]

Reg isn't a completely spoiled psychopath, just a young conservative.

[rah]

Luckily he's a 'he' and I thank my lucky stars not to be the father of a daughter!

Yeah, with a 'he' you do high fives for many of the things that I was "going to kill the bastard"
But again, my daughter was usually good and discreet enough to keep me sane.

[Hauldren Collider]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Oh my god. This is an awesome feature.

[Dinner]

Kids are awesome until they **** their pants then they're just stink makers. Like Albert Speer.

[molly bloom]

(personally, I love the Russian food best--blini, pirogi, halushki, bobka loaves, etc.)

I like Russian bread and devour blinis whenever they're available- especially with sour cream and caviar or smoked salmon. I very much like coulibiac too. I do enjoy barbecue as well- had some at one of my friend's church Christmas dinners- African style, with lots of spicy rice and hot sauce.

Another friend served artichoke hearts with preserved lemon and tabbouleh and red rice salad at her post-Christmas/pre- New Year party- a bit more of an Antiochian menu, I suppose.

Here's a more appropriate musical offering, I suppose...

By the way, do keep the story's of your boy's childhood coming- I loved being babysitting Uncle and spoiling my charges rotten.

[molly bloom]

Oh my god. This is an awesome feature.

Imagine if you had any to be proud of.

[DaShi]

Kids are awesome until they **** their pants then they're just stink makers. Like Albert Speer.

****ting their pants is nowhere near among the worst things kids do to parents.

[pchang]

Mine **** on my hand while I was changing his diaper.

[Sava]

poon razor

[snoopy369]

Actually if his weight is around the 50th percentile for his height then the main question is how tall are Mom and Dad?

He didn't say the W/H % was 50, he said H % was 50. 2 yo 35% weight is 27-28 pounds (as noted), 2yo 50% for height is about 34". H/W is probably around 35% as well, then.

I'm curious, how much does parent height matter at this age (and for that matter, how much does height-at-2yo affect height-at-20yo)? I've got two kids, both hovering around or above 90% (for example, my 2.5 yo is 38" tall, my 10 month old is 30-31"). My wife is 5'4" and I'm 5'8". I don't suspect it's likely they'll continue to hang around the 90th percentile, but who knows?

[Dr Strangelove]

For a boy you take the father's percentile height, multiply by 2, add the mother's percentile height then divide by 3 and that's a rough approximation of his expected male adult percentile height. For a girl you take the mother's percentile height, multiply by 2, add the father's percentile heightand divide by 3 to estimate her female adult percentile height.

[snoopy369]

I understand that, I meant, looking at a 2 year old, does their current height percentile at 2yo have much bearing on their height percentile as an adult (assuming they're not <5% or something crazy)?

[Guynemer]

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh kinda sorta maybe?

Growth is so variable during puberty that is rather difficult to make a real prediction at age 2.

[Guynemer]

For a boy you take the father's percentile height, multiply by 2, add the mother's percentile height then divide by 3 and that's a rough approximation of his expected male adult percentile height. For a girl you take the mother's percentile height, multiply by 2, add the father's percentile heightand divide by 3 to estimate her female adult percentile height.

Another method used by pediatric endocrinologists is that the average of the parents' height. For a boy, it'll be roughly 1-3 inches above that; a girl, 1-3 below.

[Elok]

Lately he's taken to riffing on songs and nursery rhymes we tell him. So, a week or so ago Shelok asked him, "Laz, are you poopy?" He answered, "Poopy? No not I, if do sure cry."

More recently, he's been singing "Here Comes the Sun," with the sun replaced by various random objects, e.g. "Here comes the milk," "here comes the blocks," "here comes the book." Always followed by a thoroughly atonal "doo-doo-doo-doo . . ."

The metric I heard was "twice the kid's height at age two is his adult height," which would make him about 5'10". I can live with that.