Over at the Banjostrand blog, Jamie has been shocking everyone with the measurements of her children, who are HUGE, which made me look up how big my kids were at that age. Answer: definitely not huge.

Joshua weighed 20 pounds at 15 months (7th percentile) — compared to Ryker’s 30 pounds at 12. Kaya came in at 22 pounds at 18 months.

I had to pull out their baby books to look these up, and I hadn’t seen them in a while so it’s been fun to read back through everything Kaya did as a baby and the few things I recorded about Joshua’s babyhood. Come on, he’s a second child! You know you all did the same thing! I was too busy chasing a 3-year-old and trying not to go completely insane to spend much time with his baby book. We’re all lucky that we survived that year, much less recorded any of it.

Anyway … some of the stuff about Kaya made me laugh.

Her favorites:

1 year

Cheerios and American cheese

2 years

“macee roni and cheese”
Cinderella
Row Row Your Boat
Twinkle Little Star
the “Mommy Daddy” song (that one’s a blank for me)
Cinderella (anything and everything)
Blues Clues
washing dishes

3 years

“macee roni and oatmeal” (??)
London Bridge
If you Give a Mouse a Cookie

We also listed important firsts. Some gems from the “firsts”:

• November 4, 5 months: “Today Kaya sat up for 1/2 hour ALL BY HERSELF without falling over!” (okay … um … wow. parenthood makes you nuts.)
• May 2000, age 2: “goes potty in her potty, occasionally”
• January 2001, age 2.5: “Potty trained – only took 2 days wearing underwear and a few accidents, but now Kaya is only wearing diapers at night! Big girl! When she sits on the potty, she says ‘leave me alone’!”
• January 2001, age 2.5 — apparently a big month! — can spell her name
• Age 3.5: can write own name and recognize many written words – also basic counting and adding. (This is one I had no idea was abnormal until I met other people with kids her age, who were NOT reading, and then Buster came along and read at a normal age.)

It’s ridiculously hard to believe that my little sweet girl is 11 and growing up so fast. And my baby is 8. Sigh. At least I have Zoe to baby talk to. And Chip to wash dishes.