Tall order?
Hannes is now 53 cm long and he weighs 4.1 kilos. Amazing growth rate. One centimeter and 300 g per week. At this rate, Hannes will be taller than me (170cm) in about 2 and a half years. He'll be skinny, though, as he'll only weigh about 40 kilos.
Funny how happy we are about Hannes being right on the "average curve", he is a perfectly average baby, and we couldn't be happier. You don't want your baby be under the curve and not really too much above it, either. Average is good, average is safe. Average is home.
I was always the second shortest guy in class. I don't know how it is at schools today but way back in the good old 1970s Finland, we were told to always form a line before going to a classroom, in order of height. Boys formed one line, girls their own. So every time we ran back to the classroom door, to form the line, I just had to make sure to stand behind Nicky. I was behind Nicky for five years, from 1974 to 1979. Always there, towering over Nicky, from about 0.5 cm higher up. We were best friends, too.
But nobody else remebers that I was the second shortest. Everybody in our calls remembers surely that Nicky was shortest and Adamsson the tallest, except that Eija was even taller, but she was in the girls' line.
Then in high school, we moved to Joensuu, and I was the shortest guy in class. Finally it was my day in the limelight. Only, we didn't have to form any lines anymore.
Anyway, for now, we're happy Hannes is on that average curve. That's healthy.
