This past week I took Brennan to his 18 month well check up appointment. I laughed to myself when the nurse gave me his stats. His weigh was 23lbs which was in the 10% ,his height was in the 15% and his head was 80% yup you read it right 80%. I remember when Cody was little I was shocked and a little worried at how big of difference his head size was from his body size . I remember after his 3 month appointment the doctor said not to be to alarmed by the difference of his head size and that they would watch it and monitor it to make sure there was not a under lying medical condition causing his large melon. The doctor explained that as long as the growth percentile stayed consistent and did not get bigger that I need not to worry. After each check up that followed his 9 month, 12 month , 18 month appointments and so on it was always the same. His body and height around 15% and head at 80-90%. His head was consistently Huge!! What a relief!! After Hailey was born she fell on the same growth chart As Cody, head weight 15% and head size 90% After the 3rd child I came to the realization while Steve and I may make some cute kids they have exceptionally large heads!!! I try to blame that on Steve’s side of the genetic tree but when I look back at pictures I secretly know they get it from me. I laugh cause I constantly hear from everybody how much the kids look like Steve and I mumble under my breath, “they sure do” and think really I went through all the weight gain and work of carrying these 3 joys of my life could one look like me!!! What concerns me more is while the kids look like Steve I worry that they will get certain hidden genetic traits of mine that I hope to not pass on to them such as my genetically high cholesterol that my father was so kind to pass on to me. For those of you who do not know I have shockingly high cholesterol, I am talking numbers in the 300. I work out regularly, eat health but thanks to my father’s genes I have the type of cholesterol that can only be lowered by medication!! I pray I did not pass that on to the kids. Another wonderful gene I hope I do not pass on to my children is several missing adult teeth, another wonderful gift from my father’s side. I am missing 5 adult teeth which means I have an expensive smile, 3 fake teeth hidden inside that are not cheap. If I have not thanked you before Thanks Mom and Dad for paying for my smile. I have one more baby tooth still hanging in their but it is on its last root and which will entail a expensive implant when that finally falls out. No worries though the money I get from the tooth fairy for a vintage tooth should cover the implant price!!!! I remember last year when Cody got his x-rays from the dentist and they saw all his adult teeth, I sighed with relief thinking at least I won’t have to pay for fake teeth, I am sure I will be paying for braces with my extreme overbite and spacious front teeth I received from my mother, which I fear my children will have. Wow I am picture of health and beauty, thinking of all these traits I am surprised I was able to find a husband with my missing tooth buck teeth smile. I should pull out a picture from when I was pregnant with Hailey and one of my bridges fell out. I was toothless and pregnant, can we say redneck!! Next time you are feeling down and need a laugh I will email you that photo. Thank God for a few good genes I received from my mom and dad that the balance out those bad ones . Thanks mom for my great light green eyes and slender legs and Dad thanks for the great hair and outgoing personality . Don’t worry Cody and Hailey even if you get some of my bad genes I promise it will be alright, most of them can be fixed with medical and cosmetic intervention. Look, I survived and turned out relatively OK. I recently have been bringing the kids into work to do the hand off from when I go in and Steve gets done. This past week a co-worker said to me “Wow does your kid have some eyebrow” referring to Cody. At first I wanted to say really why would you ever say anything like that to someone you “Dumbass” but instead I smiled and said in my sweet proud voice “yup he got them from me” I do have to admit I am sooooo happy Hailey did not get my full Italian eyebrows!!! So to my 3 beautiful children that our made up of both my good and bad genes, you will always be beautiful because you are mine but I promise to fix any of those not so great traits you received from me just like grandma and grandpa did for me!!! So This week’s Wayback weekend Pictures are Cody’s and mine first grade school picture. You will notice my spacious front teeth and full eyebrows and you will notice Cody and I have the same full eye brows and big heads. I love my big head full eyebrow son, Have a great week!!
