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Originally posted by Trepidation_Mom
once he does he will be a mobile food-spitting machine and move on to destroy my curtains and beding as well.
Question: at what point do you stop measuring a kid's height lying down and measure him standing up? He's still is a bit of a monster - we had brunch the other day next to a girl who was reportedly 2, and the Trepidation Kid looked like he could eat her for breakfast (if only he could figure out how the spoon goes in the mouth) - but I was trying to figure out how much of a monster. He weighs in at 25.5 pounds, but his standing height is 28 1/2, which is more than 40 percentiles away from his weight. He looks quite slim, so unless he's got a lead foot I'm pretty sure something's out of wack. (Besides, you try getting a not-quite-10-month-old to stand still with his feet together while mommy gets the tape measure.) Lying down he was 30 inches, which seemed to make more sense.
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don't feed him outside his chair. strap him in and you can confine the damage. Get a plastic mat if necessary. Our girl likes to throw stuff. She also likes to say "I'm finished" by using a sweeping motion to clear off all the food from the high chair tray. Good times.
As for height, I think there's no point measuring standing up until they're walking and their posture is decent. The way I got a bead on our daughter's height was to measure her relative to our table. She goes about 2.5" above it, so I just added the height of the table. Came out about the same as teh doctor's office.
As for %-iles, ours is 30 points different (90h/60w). The spread was even bigger before that. Some kids are stocky/some are lanky. Such is life.
