Little Nellie

To say my child is small I guess would be an understatement. I missed her 12 month appointment so we went last week when she was almost 14 months. Her stats: 16 lbs. 8 oz. with big shoes, a full diaper, heavy pants and shirt. She is 27 inches tall with her shoes on as well. I don't know why they didn't take off her shoes at least, but whatever. She is not on the charts, not that I expected her to be. She is still fitting very nicely into her 3-6 month clothes. In fact I bought her 6-9 month for winter and I am hoping they fit her better by then because right now they are huge on her.

It may sound like I am worried about her, but actually I am not. She eats so much, I thought Lizzy ate a lot when she was little but Nellie eats even more. She usually eats as much as I do for meals. She loves basically everything especially fruits and vegetables. I know she will probably always be little and I actually kind of like it. She just doesn't have the genes to be big.

The only thing I don't like is when people act like I need to be worried about how small she is. I think they need to be worried about how fat their kids are, I mean isn't that the big concern nowadays, childhood obesity. Here I am with two kids that are not ever going to have to worry about that and people are trying to say I should be concerned about my kids size. I have small kids. I was tiny when I was young and I survived just fine.