sizing him up

the other day love was playing with her baby doll (an unusual occurrence as she almost always can be found playing with trains, cars, duplos, blocks, or her dumptruck or school bus).

the baby doll has several outfits and i helped her change the doll's clothes several times. eventually, i headed into the kitchen to get a few things done. i heard her mention something about jobot trying on the doll's diaper. next thing i knew, he came into the kitchen happily wearing the diaper around his ankle. she had attempted to put the diaper on over his clothes, but quickly came to the conclusion that it would never fit, so she had put it around his ankle instead. she was just glad that he was wearing it on some part of his body.

 

when your little brother is wearing size 3T clothes at 14 months of age and you still wear some 3T clothes yourself, i guess there are just compromises that have to be made when dressing him up.

obviously, our ten pound ten ounce newborn has remained large for his age. people frequently ask us how old he is and when we tell them, every single person says, "wow! he is big!". it's true, he is. we weighed the kids the other day. love weighed 33 pounds, jobot weighed 31.5. he will soon be larger than she is.

the most funny thing recently was when someone asked us if the kids are twins and we had to tell them that they are actually two years apart!