Ada Stats – Year 3
Ada had her 3-year physical today. Nothing to note except for my concerns about her occasional, odd clumsiness. He’s going to monitor this with the school district since the obvious things that would cause it don’t apply to her. He was impressed with how much she has caught up developmentally though. He hasn’t seen her for a year, thanks to her impeccable health record. She hasn’t been sick since we took her out of daycare at 11-months old. I’m thinking that she built up am immunity to everything while she was there. She was sick about every other week during the daycare days. This will change once she starts preschool in June I’m sure.
Here are her impressive stats. People do not believe me when I tell them her age, at least at first. I always have to validate that I’m an not intentionally lying or forgetting how old my child is. This would be because Ada is of average height and weight for a 4.5 year old.
Height: 3-feet, 4.5 inches — a good amount above the 95th-percentile
Weight: 35 lbs – just a tad under the 90th-percentile
He asked what she was eating that is making her so tall. I do not know, but whatever Ada is having, I’m having because I would be happy to add about 3-inches to my height*.
Ada and I ran to Target afterwards because I wanted to pick up a couple more socks for her**, and a few other things. We were picking up some more pull-ups for her when a woman asked me if I just called her “Ada.” I confirmed, and she said her daughter’s name is Ada. My Ada is now the third one she knows. It is a name that hasn’t been popular since the late 1800s. It seems to be gaining in popularity as is all older names. Her daughter would be the third one that I’ve heard of as well. So, there are at least 3 little girls in Lawrence named Ada.
*Actually, I’m happy being short. It hasn’t ever bothered me. I can afford a step stool. I’m also happy to be breeding a generation of people who can help get things off of shelves for me.
**Ada has four socks now with missing mates. Really, where in the freak are her socks going?
It’s all that Nutella you’re feeding her.
D did the same thing. He was a snot fountain the whole time he was in day care. Got pinkeye 3 or 4 times. Had 4 ear infections. In the 2 years since he’s been out, he’s only been sick enough to miss one day of school and had one ear infection. I had the same fears about preschool and they didn’t really materialize. I think their personal hygeine has improved by then. (I have no idea if I spelled that right)
FWIW, Firefox has a built-in spell checker.
I forgot about that. Sometimes I open firefox, sometimes I open IE. Must have been using IE this morning.