Monday, April 22, 2024

annual birthday questions

 Favorite color:  

Age 3 - blue and green and white and red and purple
Age 4 – pink
Age 5 – all of the colors in the rainbow except orange and red
Age 6 - rainbow
Age 7 - gold
             Age 8 - light blue
Age 9 - teal 
Age 10 - teal
Age 11 - teal 
Age 12 - dark purple

Favorite toy/game:  
Age 3 - playing with baby things
Age 4 – playing Kristoff or Prince Hans
Age 5 – dragon Legos
Age 6 - Legos
Age 7 - my new Wild Kratts toys 
             Age 8 - Legos
Age 9 - legos
Age 10 - legos
Age 11 - legos and books
Age 12 - Legos and my kindle

Favorite food:
Age 3 -  mac and cheese
Age 4 – mac and cheese
Age 5 – mac and cheese
Age 6 – mac and cheese
Age 7 - mac and cheese
            Age 8 -  mac and cheese
Age 9 - cheese sticks
Age 10 - mac and cheese
Age 11 - anything cheesy that isn't spicy (pizza, cheese sticks, mac and cheese, etc)
Age 12 - pizza

Favorite drink:  
Age 3 – moose hair (?!?)
Age 4 – milk
Age 5 – chocolate milk
Age 6 – chocolate milk
Age 7 - chocolate milk
            Age 8 -  ice water
Age 9 - sparkling apple juice and/or milk
Age 10 - root beer
Age 11 - root beer
Age 12 - mocha or root beer

Favorite movie:  
Age 3 - Happy Feet
Age 4 – Sleeping Beauty
Age 5 – Finding Nemo and Finding Dory
Age 6 - The Lion Guard
Age 7 - Lion King
            Age 8 - Frozen 2
Age 9 -  don't know
Age 10 - don't know
Age 11 - still undetermined
Age 12 - Nimona

Favorite TV show:   
Age 3 – Caillou
Age 4 – the car one
Age 5 – My Little Pony
Age 6 - The Lion Guard
Age 7 - Wild Kratts
            Age 8 - Wild Kratts
Age 9 - Wild Kratts
Age 10 - Camp Cretaceous
Age 11 - still undetermined
Age 12 - Owl House

Favorite song:  
Age 3 - Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Age 4 – Jasmine ("A Whole New World")
Age 5 – Twinkle Twinkle
Age 6 - Twinkle Twinkle
Age 7 - Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
            Age 8 - Six: The Musical
Age 9 - John Denver music
Age 10 - The Holly and the Ivy
Age 11 - still undetermined
Age 12 - I don't really have a favorite song

Favorite book:  
             Age 3 - You are a LION (yoga book)
Age 4 – Anna and Elsa
Age 5 – My Little Pony (the Pinkie Pie one)
Age 6 - Green Eggs and Ham
Age 7 - Harry Potter
             Age 8 - Warriors
Age 9 - every book I've ever read
Age 10 - every book I've read
Age 11 - still undetermined
Age 12 - The Shadowman Chronicles

Favorite outfit:  
             Age 3 - blue and white
Age 4 – my twirly dress I have on now
Age 5 – sparkly things
Age 6 - dresses
Age 7 - costumes
            Age 8 - pants and a shirt
Age 9 - this snake dress that I got for my birthday
Age 10 - a snake outfit
Age 11 - my birthday outfit (shirt of cat playing drums and snakeprint pants)
Age 12 - the cat playing the drums shirt, and the comfy pants that are black but look like smoke is in them

Best friend:  
Age 3 - Eden and Asher and Evan
Age 4 – Eden
Age 5 – Eden
Age 6 - Aleena
Age 7 - Allie
            Age 8 - Allie
Age 9 - Ivy (cat)
Age 10 - Allie
Age 11 - Ivy
Age 12 - Ivy

Favorite holiday:  
Age 3 - Christmas and Easter
Age 4 – my birthday
Age 5 – my birthday
Age 6 - April
Age 7 - my birthday
            Age 8 - my birthday
Age 9 - my birthday
Age 10 - my birthday
Age 11 - all of the holidays
Age 12 - either my birthday or Christmas

What I take to bed each night:  
Age 3 - a cat 
Age 4 – pajamas
Age 5 – a stuffed animal like Rainbow Dash
Age 6 - myself
Age 7 - a stuffie
            Age 8 - Wolfie
Age 9 - Wolfie
Age 10 - Wolfie, my pajamas, Fantastic Mrs Fox, my blanket, my sheets
Age 11 - Wolfie, my blanket, my pillow, my mattress, my kindle
Age 12 - Wolfie, a blanket, my pillow, my book, etc

When I grow up, I want to be:  
Age 3 - a diamond
Age 4 – a princess
Age 5 – a junior ranger
Age 6 - nothing
Age 7 - a scientist
            Age 8 - a history teacher
Age 9 - I don't know
Age 10 - something that has to do with snakes
Age 11 - a person who owns a hotel purely for cats
Age 12 - an author

I'm afraid to: 
Age 3 – monsters
Age 4 – bears and alligators and dinosaurs
Age 5 – nothing!
Age 6 - be by myself
Age 7 - kill stink bugs
             Age 8 - go on the walk we did earlier today
Age 9 -  take my feet off the ground without Mike holding me when I'm on a bike
Age 10 - I don't know
Age 11 - touch a large herbivore, and go out in the dark alone
Age 12 - talk to strangers

I'm proud of:  
Age 3 - ??
Age 4 – Daddy
Age 5 – myself!
Age 6 - mommy and daddy
Age 7 - building Lego sets
             Age 8 - all the Legos I have
Age 9 -  being me
Age 10 - being able to read high level books
Age 11 - reading as many books as I do
Age 12 - how tall I am

Something I do really well:  
Age 3 - cookie monster
Age 4 – watch a movie
Age 5 – Legos
Age 6 - cleaning my room
Age 7 - keep on trying
             Age 8 - Legos
Age 9 -  read and/or play Legos
Age 10 - play legos, read
Age 11 - reading and legos
Age 12 - read, play Legos, write

This makes me happy:  
Age 3 - an Easter bunny
Age 4 – when I have love around me
Age 5 – doing Legos
Age 6 - hugs
Age 7 - when staying up late, going to sleep
            Age 8 - Legos
Age 9 - Ivy (cat)
Age 10 - a lot of things - playing legos, my parents
Age 11 - Ivy 
Age 12 - having fun

This makes me sad:  
              Age 3 - a cow hit me
Age 4 – when someone hits me or bites me or pinches me or kicks me
Age 5 – when it's nap time
Age 6 - when somebody hits me
Age 7 - getting hurt
             Age 8 - Wolfie not going to bed with me
Age 9 - when a playdate ends
Age 10 - I don't know
Age 11 - thinking about how some day Ivy won't be around
Age 12 - thinking about Ivy's inevitable death before mine

Favorite time of day:  
Age 3 - movie time
Age 4 – playing with Eden
Age 5 – lunch time
Age 6 - dessert time
Age 7 - dessert time
             Age 8 - 3pm
Age 9 - 3pm
Age 10 - 3pm
Age 11 - after dinner
Age 12 - late at night

Dream vacation:  
Age 3 -??
Age 4 – to the princesses! (i.e., Disneyland)
Age 5 – Disney World
Age 6 - to Mitra's house
Age 7 - living in a jungle and swinging on vines
             Age 8 - to go to Florida again
Age 9 - seeing a green anaconda
Age 10 - with snakes
Age 11 - to dragon cat alley - I made that up
Age 12 - Florida

Favorite thing to do with Mommy: 
             Age 3 - play with her
Age 4 – play Candyland
Age 5 – cuddle
Age 6 - be outside playing tag
Age 7 - read books
             Age 8 - snuggles
Age 9 - snuggle and/or read
Age 10 - read
Age 11 - watch Runaways
Age 12 - annoying you

Favorite thing to do with Daddy:  
             Age 3 - play with him
Age 4 – play Candyland again!
Age 5 – play Legos
Age 6 - build Legos
             Age 7 - build Legos
            Age 8 - read Warriors and do Legos
            Age 9 - practicing archery
            Age 10 - KiwiCo boxes
            Age 11 - hanging out with him
            Age 12 - annoying him
 
 

Saturday, February 17, 2024

12 month grown stats!

 

 I've read that you should never compare one child with the other. But I'm a little but of a data nerd, so I pulled out Rose's old growth stats to compare hers with Apollo's. For the record, I'm not comparing to say one is better or worse than the other, but I'm just curious and also pretty fascinated by individual differences! :)

note that percentiles are different for boys vs. girls

 

ROSE                                                APOLLO

Birth
weight:  7#10oz                               6# 2oz

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Two months
weight:  12# 6.4oz (85th %ile)        8# 6.5oz (1.2 %ile)
height:   23.5"  (86th %ile)              20.8" (2 %ile)
head:    15.5" (66th %ile)                14.37" (5.2 %ile)

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Four months
weight:  15# 10oz (86th %ile)        11# 14.5oz (1.4%ile)
height:   26"  (95th %ile)                24" (7.8 %ile)
head:    16.75"  (85th %ile)            16" (18.4 %ile)

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Six months
weight:  17# 7oz (78th %ile)                   14#6oz (4%ile)
height:   27.25"  (93rd %ile)                    25.25" (? %ile)
head:    17"   (72nd %ile)                         16.4" (9 %ile)

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Nine months
weight:  19# 9.6oz (65th %ile)                18#3oz (22nd %ile)
height:   28.75"  (87th %ile)                    28.5" (51st %ile)
head:    17.5"   (66th %ile)                       17.5" (29 %ile)


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Twelve months
weight:  20# 9.6oz (61th %ile)                19# 11 oz (23rd %ile)
height:   30.5"  (89th %ile)                      30"  (43rd %ile)
head:    17.75"   (55th %ile)                    17.9" (34th %ile)





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Fifteen months
weight:  23# (70th %ile)
height:   32.25"  (91st %ile)
head:    18.25"   (67th %ile)

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Eighteen months
weight:  24# 9.6oz (72nd %ile)
height:   2'10" (98th %ile!)
head:    18.5" (68th %ile)

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Twenty four months
weight:  27# 12.8oz (66th %ile)
height:   2'0.25"  (98th %ile)
head:    19"  (72nd %ile)