Nine month check up

Kenzers had her nine month check up with Dr. Connelly (who is the best in the business as far as we are concerned) yesterday.

They always measure her height and head size and weigh her. Then Dr. Connelly has this computer program that shows her percentile and where she stacks up against other babies her age.

So far she is in the 97th percentile for height and in the 66th for weight and head size. Now I have no illusions that Kenzers will be playing in the WNBA one day. After all, I stopped growing pretty much after ninth grade. But it sure is fun to wonder where she gets her "height"!

I couldn't help but think the first time I saw all of the measureless up on the screen how similar it all was to the NWEA results we get during the year from our students' test scores.

Then I couldn't help but think that maybe if we (I mean parents) paid more attention to our children at this time in their lives and their first 'test' scores, then maybe we wouldn't have the high stakes testing insanity that is en vogue in our current public education.