Just for fun I weighed and measured the little kids today. Liam is under the third percentile for height (33.5in) and weight(24.5lbs). Evan is 50-75th for weight(28.2lbs) and 25-50th for height (37in). Dylan is in the same percentile as Evan for both. His weight is 30lbs and height is 37in. I just never do that anymore now that they are older and I was curious. I wish Liam would get a bit bigger but he seems healthy enough!
Stay in your lane. Don't look at other people's papers. Those couple of lines jumped out at me as I read Maria Goff's book " Love Lives Here" It reminded me that we can't all live the same life. Comparisons hold us back and discourage us like nothing else. We have fears of being different when we are SUPPOSED to be different. I grew up trying to fit in and not doing a very good job at it. When I was in my teens I thought I'd try a new approach so I started trying to be the opposite of what I was because I thought that is what everyone else wanted me to be. I am chatty and energetic and I tried to be dainty and quiet. I didn't do a very good job of that either. Yikes. Trying to be someone we're not is exhausting and it doesn't work. We seldom fool anyone or achieve the goal we thought we wanted. What we all really want I think, is to connect with one another and to matter. As an adult I have had goals and held them up against other p...
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