Sunday, May 27, 2012

Different sizes and different personalities

Annabelle and Sarah both had a doctor’s appointment last week. Annabelle needed her shots for kindergarten and Sarah just had a regular checkup. I was really interested to see what the percentages were for weight and height for both kids. Annabelle is very tall for her age and Jillian is extremely petite and so I’m curious as to which end of the spectrum Sarah will fall.

At 5 years and 2 months of age, Annabelle weighs 44.4 lbs (72nd percentile) and 47.5 inches (99th percentile). Holy cow, that girl is tall. I think she’s also going through a growing spurt right now because she constantly asks for snacks and sleeps 10- 12 hours at night. But she’s got tons of energy and loves helping her little sisters.

Just to put into perspective how much smaller Jillian is for her age, at her 2 year checkup at the end of January, she was 23 lbs (7th percentile) and 32 inches tall (20th percentile).

At 10 weeks old, Sarah weighed 12.3 lbs (78th percentile) and was 23.5 inches tall (81st percentile).  If she continues to grow like this, she’ll be as tall as Annabelle at age 5.

Not only are they all different in size, but their personalities are so different as well. Annabelle is cute, creative, smart, and extremely kind, but easily distracted and very sensitive. Jillian is beautiful, smart, strong-willed, and defiant. There’s definitely a rebel streak in her. And Sarah so far seems to be very low-maintenance and easy. She may be the mellowest child of the three. Although they are all so different, I love them each dearly.

1 comment:

Jana said...

Love how everyone is so different in the world. Definitely makes life interesting.